Advances in Visual Information Systems: 9th International Conference, VISUAL 2007 Shanghai, China, June 28-29, 2007 Revised Selected Papers

Michael Lew (auth.), Guoping Qiu, Clement Leung, Xiangyang Xue, Robert Laurini (eds.)3540764135, 9783540764137

The Visual Information Systems International Conference series is designed to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from diverse areas of computing including computer vision, databases, human–computer interaction, information security, image processing, information visualization and mining, as well as knowledge and information management to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, present their latest results and to advance research and development in the construction and application of visual information systems. Following previous conferences held in Melbourne (1996), San Diego (1997), Amsterdam (1999), Lyon (2000), Taiwan (2002), Miami (2003), San Francisco (2004) and Amsterdam (2005), the Ninth International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL2007, was held in Shanghai, China, June 28–29, 2007. Over the years, the visual information systems paradigm continues to evolve, and the unrelenting exponential growth in the amount of digital visual data underlines the escalating importance of how such data are effectively managed and deployed. VISUAL2007 received 117 submissions from 15 countries and regions. Submitted full papers were reviewed by more than 60 international experts in the field. This volume collects 54 selected papers presented at VISUAL2007. Topics covered in these papers include image and video retrieval, visual biometrics, intelligent visual information processing, visual data mining, ubiquitous and mobile visual information systems, visual semantics, 2D/3D graphical visual data retrieval and applications of visual information systems.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Visual Information Retrieval – Future Directions and Grand Challenges….Pages 1-4
Approximation-Based Keypoints in Colour Images – A Tool for Building and Searching Visual Databases….Pages 5-16
A Knowledge Synthesizing Approach for Classification of Visual Information….Pages 17-25
Image Similarity – From Fuzzy Sets to Color Image Applications….Pages 26-37
A Semi-automatic Feature Selecting Method for Sports Video Highlight Annotation….Pages 38-48
Face Image Retrieval System Using TFV and Combination of Subimages….Pages 49-60
Near-Duplicate Detection Using a New Framework of Constructing Accurate Affine Invariant Regions….Pages 61-72
Where Are Focused Places of a Photo?….Pages 73-83
Region Based Image Retrieval Incorporated with Camera Metadata….Pages 84-92
Empirical Investigations on Benchmark Tasks for Automatic Image Annotation….Pages 93-104
Automatic Detection and Recognition of Players in Soccer Videos….Pages 105-116
A Temporal and Visual Analysis-Based Approach to Commercial Detection in News Video….Pages 117-125
Salient Region Filtering for Background Subtraction….Pages 126-135
A Novel SVM-Based Method for Moving Video Objects Recognition….Pages 136-145
Image Classification and Indexing by EM Based Multiple-Instance Learning….Pages 146-153
Palm Vein Extraction and Matching for Personal Authentication….Pages 154-164
A SVM Face Recognition Method Based on Optimized Gabor Features….Pages 165-174
Palmprint Identification Using Pairwise Relative Angle and EMD….Pages 175-184
Finding Lips in Unconstrained Imagery for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition….Pages 185-192
Feature Selection for Identifying Critical Variables of Principal Components Based on K-Nearest Neighbor Rule….Pages 193-204
Denoising Saliency Map for Region of Interest Extraction….Pages 205-215
Cumulative Global Distance for Dimension Reduction in Handwritten Digits Database….Pages 216-222
A New Video Compression Algorithm for Very Low Bandwidth Using Curve Fitting Method….Pages 223-229
The Influence of Perceived Quality by Adjusting Frames Per Second and Bits Per Frame Under the Limited Bandwidth….Pages 230-241
An Evolutionary Approach to Inverse Gray Level Quantization….Pages 242-253
Mining Large-Scale News Video Database Via Knowledge Visualization….Pages 254-266
Visualization of the Critical Patterns of Missing Values in Classification Data….Pages 267-274
Visualizing Unstructured Text Sequences Using Iterative Visual Clustering….Pages 275-284
Enhanced Visual Separation of Clusters by M-Mapping to Facilitate Cluster Analysis….Pages 285-297
Multimedia Data Mining and Searching Through Dynamic Index Evolution….Pages 298-309
Clustering and Visualizing Audiovisual Dataset on Mobile Devices in a Topic-Oriented Manner….Pages 310-321
Adaptive Video Presentation for Small Display While Maximize Visual Information….Pages 322-332
An Efficient Compression Technique for a Multi-dimensional Index in Main Memory….Pages 333-343
RELT – Visualizing Trees on Mobile Devices….Pages 344-357
Auto-generation of Geographic Cognitive Maps for Browsing Personal Multimedia….Pages 358-368
Automatic Image Annotation for Semantic Image Retrieval….Pages 369-378
Collaterally Cued Labelling Framework Underpinning Semantic-Level Visual Content Descriptor….Pages 379-390
Investigating Automatic Semantic Processing Effects in Selective Attention for Just-in-Time Information Retrieval Systems….Pages 391-402
News Video Retrieval by Learning Multimodal Semantic Information….Pages 403-414
Visualization of Relational Structure Among Scientific Articles….Pages 415-425
3D Model Retrieval Based on Multi-Shell Extended Gaussian Image….Pages 426-437
Neurovision with Resilient Neural Networks….Pages 438-444
Visual Information for Firearm Identification by Digital Holography….Pages 445-452
GIS-Based Lunar Exploration Information System in China….Pages 453-460
Semantic 3D CAD and Its Applications in Construction Industry – An Outlook of Construction Data Visualization….Pages 461-467
A Fast Algorithm for License Plate Detection….Pages 468-477
Applying Local Cooccurring Patterns for Object Detection from Aerial Images….Pages 478-489
Enticing Sociability in an Intelligent Coffee Corner….Pages 490-501
Geometric and Haptic Modelling of Textile Artefacts….Pages 502-511
A Toolkit to Support Dynamic Social Network Visualization….Pages 512-523
The Predicate Tree – A Metaphor for Visually Describing Complex Boolean Queries….Pages 524-536
Potentialities of Chorems as Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Contents….Pages 537-548
Compound Geospatial Object Detection in an Aerial Image….Pages 549-558
Texture Representation and Retrieval Using the Causal Autoregressive Model….Pages 559-569
An Approach Based on Multiple Representations and Multiple Queries for Invariant Image Retrieval….Pages 570-579
Back Matter….Pages –