Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management: 10th International Conference, VISUAL 2008, Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008, Proceedings

by Monica Sebillo (Editor), Giuliana Vitiello (Editor), Gerald Schaefer (Editor)

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL 2008, held in Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. The 35 papers presented in this volume, together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The topics covered are information and data visualization; advances techniques for visual information management; mobile visual information systems; image and video indexing and retrieval; applications of visual information systems; and industrial experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540858904
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/07/2008
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #5188
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Keynote Papers.- A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data.- Locational Awareness on the Internet.- Virtual Spaces: From the Past to the Future.- Information and Data Visualization.- Better Perception of 3D-Spatial Relations by Viewport Variations.- Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information.- Navigation and Search in 3D Visualizations of Large Unstructured Photo Collections: An Empirical Study.- Evaluation of Information Visualization Tools Using the NFR Approach.- Interactive Exploration of Large Dynamic Networks.- Flood Emergency Interaction and Visualization System.- 3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces.- Dynamic Buffer Areas Obtained by EFCM Method in GIS Environment.- Automatic G1 Surface Reconstruction from Serial Cross-Sectional Images.- Operational Risk Visualization.- Advanced Techniques for Visual Information Management.- Classification-Based Color Constancy.- An Optimized Fuzzy Based Short Term Object Motion Prediction for Real-Life Robot Navigation Environment.- Experiments on Selection of Codebooks for Local Image Feature Histograms.- Extending KDDML with a Visual Metaphor for the KDD Process.- Inter-frame and Inter-layer Motion Prediction during Fast Block Motion Estimation in MCTF.- Mobile Visual Information Systems.- L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users.- MoViSys – A Visualization System for Geo-Referenced Information on Mobile Devices.- A New Approach Toward a Modular Multimodal Interface for PDAs and Smartphones.- Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Learning Rules for Semantic Video Event Annotation.- Two Step Relevance Feedback for Semantic Disambiguation in Image Retrieval.- An Architectural Paradigm for Collaborative Semantic Indexing of Multimedia Data Objects.-Evaluation of Quality Retaining Diagnostic Credibility for Surgery Video Recordings.- Techniques for Image Classification, Object Detection and Object Segmentation.- Applications of Visual Information Systems.- A Visual Framework for the Definition and Execution of Reverse Engineering Processes.- An Evolutionary General Purpose WebGIS to Disclose EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer.- Embedding Google Maps APIs into WebRatio for the Automatic Generation of Web GIS Applications.- DINDOW: Towards an Interaction Based on Spatio-temporal Memory.- Perception Model for People with Visual Impairments.- An Analysis of Improvements for Voter Interfaces in Polling Station and Remote Electronic Voting Systems.- Reasoning about Hand-Drawn Sketches: An Approach Based on Intelligent Software Agents.- Handling of Task Hierarchies on the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop.- Musimage: A System for Automatically Presenting Pictures Depending on the Music Being Played.- Industrial Experiences.- An Architecture for Multimedia Content Publishing with GIS-Based Retrieval Facility.- SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment.- GISTURISMO Massa-Carrara – Advanced Territory’s Dynamic Fruition Service for a Conscious Tourism.