Ebook: Advances in Visual Information Systems: 4th International Conference, VISUAL 2000 Lyon, France, November 2–4, 2000 Proceedings
- Genre: Education // International Conferences and Symposiums
- Tags: Information Systems and Communication Service, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Document Preparation and Text Processing
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1929
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Presently, in our world, visual information dominates. The turn of the millenium marks the age of visual information systems. Enabled by picture sensors of all kinds turning digital, visual information will not only enhance the value of existing information, it will also open up a new horizon of previously untapped information sources. There is a huge demand for visual information access from the consumer. As well, the handling of visual information is boosted by the rapid increase of hardware and Internet capabilities. Advanced technology for visual information systems is more urgently needed than ever before: not only new computational methods to retrieve, index, compress and uncover pictorial information, but also new metaphors to organize user interfaces. Also, new ideas and algorithms are needed which allow access to very large databases of digital pictures and videos. Finally we should not forget new systems with visual interfaces integrating the above components into new types of image, video or multimedia databases and hyperdocuments. All of these technologies will enable the construction of systems that are radically different from conventional information systems. Many novel issues will need to be addressed: query formulation for pictorial information, consistency management thereof, indexing and assessing the quality of these systems. Historically, the expression Visual Information Systems can be understood either as a system for image information or as visual system for any kind information.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL 2000, held in Lyon, France in November 2000. The 37 revised full papers presented together with eight posters and two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on image information systems, video information systems, visual querying, color, shape-based retrieval, image databases, video indexing, image retrieval, and bench marking.