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

✍ Scribed by Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko (auth.), Monica Sebillo, Giuliana Vitiello, Gerald Schaefer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5188 : Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data....Pages 1-4
Locational Awareness on the Internet....Pages 5-5
Virtual Spaces: From the Past to the Future....Pages 6-6
Better Perception of 3D-Spatial Relations by Viewport Variations....Pages 7-18
Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information....Pages 19-30
Navigation and Search in 3D Visualizations of Large Unstructured Photo Collections: An Empirical Study....Pages 31-43
Evaluation of Information Visualization Tools Using the NFR Approach....Pages 44-55
Interactive Exploration of Large Dynamic Networks....Pages 56-67
Flood Emergency Interaction and Visualization System....Pages 68-79
3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces....Pages 80-91
Dynamic Buffer Areas Obtained by EFCM Method in GIS Environment....Pages 92-95
Automatic G 1 Surface Reconstruction from Serial Cross-Sectional Images....Pages 96-99
Operational Risk Visualization....Pages 100-103
Classification-Based Color Constancy....Pages 104-113
An Optimized Fuzzy Based Short Term Object Motion Prediction for Real-Life Robot Navigation Environment....Pages 114-125
Experiments on Selection of Codebooks for Local Image Feature Histograms....Pages 126-137
Extending KDDML with a Visual Metaphor for the KDD Process....Pages 138-149
Inter-frame and Inter-layer Motion Prediction during Fast Block Motion Estimation in MCTF....Pages 150-154
L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users....Pages 155-166
MoViSys – A Visualization System for Geo-Referenced Information on Mobile Devices....Pages 167-178
A New Approach Toward a Modular Multimodal Interface for PDAs and Smartphones....Pages 179-191
Learning Rules for Semantic Video Event Annotation....Pages 192-203
Two Step Relevance Feedback for Semantic Disambiguation in Image Retrieval....Pages 204-215
An Architectural Paradigm for Collaborative Semantic Indexing of Multimedia Data Objects....Pages 216-226
Evaluation of Quality Retaining Diagnostic Credibility for Surgery Video Recordings....Pages 227-230
Techniques for Image Classification, Object Detection and Object Segmentation....Pages 231-234
A Visual Framework for the Definition and Execution of Reverse Engineering Processes....Pages 235-246
An Evolutionary General Purpose WebGIS to Disclose EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer....Pages 247-258
Embedding Google Maps APIs into WebRatio for the Automatic Generation of Web GIS Applications....Pages 259-270
DINDOW: Towards an Interaction Based on Spatio-temporal Memory....Pages 271-278
Perception Model for People with Visual Impairments....Pages 279-290
An Analysis of Improvements for Voter Interfaces in Polling Station and Remote Electronic Voting Systems....Pages 291-301
Reasoning about Hand-Drawn Sketches: An Approach Based on Intelligent Software Agents....Pages 302-314
Handling of Task Hierarchies on the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop....Pages 315-318
Musimage: A System for Automatically Presenting Pictures Depending on the Music Being Played....Pages 319-322
An Architecture for Multimedia Content Publishing with GIS-Based Retrieval Facility....Pages 323-326
SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment....Pages 327-330
GISTURISMO Massa-Carrara – Advanced Territory’s Dynamic Fruition Service for a Conscious Tourism ....Pages 331-337
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general