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

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
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