Visual Information and Information Systems: Third International Conference, VISUAL’99 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2–4, 1999 Proceedings

Supporting Image-Retrieval by Database Driven Interactive 3D Information-Visualization....Pages 1-14
Video Libraries: From Ingest to Distribution....Pages 15-18
Querying Multimedia Data Sources and Databases....Pages 19-28
General Image Database Model....Pages 29-36
System for Medical Image Retrieval The MIMS Model....Pages 37-42
An Agent-Based Visualisation Architecture....Pages 43-50
Error-Tolerant Database for Structured Images....Pages 51-59
Query Processing and Optimization for Pictorial Query Trees....Pages 60-68
Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS....Pages 68-75
Excluding Specified Colors from Image Queries Using a Multidimensional Query Space....Pages 76-82
Generic Viewer Interaction Semantics for Dynamic Virtual Video Synthesis....Pages 83-90
Category Oriented Analysis for Visual Data Mining....Pages 91-98
User Interaction in Region-Based Color Image Segmentation....Pages 99-106
Using a Relevance Feedback Mechanism to Improve Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 107-114
Region Queries without Segmentation for Image Retrieval by Content....Pages 115-122
Content-Based Image Retrieval over the Web Using Query by Sketch and Relevance Feedback....Pages 123-130
Visual Learning of Simple Semantics in ImageScape....Pages 131-138
Task Analysis for Information Visualization....Pages 139-146
Filter Image Browsing....Pages 147-155
Visualization of Information Spaces to Retrieve and Browse Image Data....Pages 155-163
Mandala: An Architecture for Using Images to Access and Organize Web Information....Pages 163-171
A Compact and Retrieval-Oriented Video Representation Using Mosaics....Pages 171-178
Crawling, Indexing and Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Data on the Web in the Framework of MPEG-7....Pages 179-186
A Visual Search Engine for Distributed Image and Video Database Retrieval Applications....Pages 187-194
Indexing Multimedia for the Internet....Pages 195-203
Crawling for Images on the WWW....Pages 203-211
A Dynamic JAVA-Based Intelligent Interface for Online Image Database Searches....Pages 211-220
Motion-Based Feature Extraction and Ascendant Hierarchical Classification for Video Indexing and Retrieval....Pages 221-229
Automatically Segmenting Movies into Logical Story Units....Pages 229-236
Local Color Analysis for Scene Break Detection Applied to TV Commercials Recognition....Pages 237-244
Scene Segmentation and Image Feature Extraction for Video Indexing and Retrieval....Pages 245-253
Automatic Recognition of Camera Zooms....Pages 253-260
A Region Tracking Method with Failure Detection for an Interactive Video Indexing Environment....Pages 261-269
Integrated Parsing of Compressed Video....Pages 269-277
Improvement of Shot Detection Using Illumination Invariant Metric and Dynamic Threshold Selection....Pages 277-282
Temporal Segmentation of MPEG Video Sequences....Pages 283-290
Detecting Abrupt Scene Change Using Neural Network....Pages 291-298
Multi-modal Feature-Map: An Approach to Represent Digital Video Sequences....Pages 299-306
Robust Tracking of Video Objects through Topological Constraint on Homogeneous Motion....Pages 307-316
The Spatial Spreadsheet....Pages 317-324
A High Level Visual Language for Spatial Data Management....Pages 325-332
A Global Graph Model of Image Registration....Pages 333-340
A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Image Database Retrieval....Pages 341-348
Motion Capture of Arm from a Monocular Image Sequence....Pages 349-357
Comparing Dictionaries for the Automatic Generation of Hypertextual Links: A Case Study....Pages 358-366
Categorizing Visual Contents by Matching Visual “Keywords”....Pages 367-374
Design of the Presentation Language for Distributed Hypermedia System....Pages 375-382
A Generic Annotation Model for Video Databases....Pages 383-390
Design and Implementation of COIRS (A COncept-Based Image Retrieval System)....Pages 391-399
Automatic Index Expansion for Concept-Based Image Query....Pages 399-408
Structured High-Level Indexing of Visual Data Content....Pages 409-416
Feature Extraction: Issues, New Features, and Symbolic Representation....Pages 418-427
Detection of Interest Points for Image Indexation....Pages 427-435
Highly Discriminative Invariant Features for Image Matching....Pages 435-443
Image Retrieval Using Schwarz Representation of One-Dimensional Feature....Pages 443-450
Invariant Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Maxima Moment....Pages 451-459
Detecting Regular Structures for Invariant Retrieval....Pages 459-466
Color Image Texture Indexing....Pages 467-475
Improving Image Classification Using Extended Run Length Features....Pages 475-482
Feature Extraction Using Fractal Codes....Pages 483-493
Content-Based Image Retrieval Based on Local Affinely Invariant Regions....Pages 493-500
A Framework for Object-Based Image Retrieval at the Semantic Level....Pages 501-508
Blobworld: A System for Region-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval....Pages 509-517
A Physics-Based Approach to Interactive Segmentation....Pages 517-524
Assessment of Effectiveness of Content Based Image Retrieval Systems....Pages 525-533
Adapting k-d Trees to Visual Retrieval....Pages 533-541
Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 541-549
Relevance Feedback and Term Weighting Schemes for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 549-557
Genetic Algorithm for Weights Assignment in Dissimilarity Function for Trademark Retrieval....Pages 557-565
Retrieval of Similar Shapes under Affine Transform....Pages 566-574
Efficient Image Retrieval through Vantage Objects....Pages 575-585
Using Pen-Based Outlines for Object-Based Annotation and Image-Based Queries....Pages 585-592
Interactive Query Formulation for Object Search....Pages 593-600
Automatic Deformable Shape Segmentation for Image Database Search Applications....Pages 601-609
A Multiscale Turning Angle Representation of Object Shapes for Image Retrieval....Pages 609-616
Contour-Based Shape Similarity....Pages 617-625
Computing Dissimilarity between Hand-Drawn Sketches and Digitized Images....Pages 625-632
Document Generation and Picture Retrieval....Pages 632-640
FLORES: A JAVA Based Image Database for Ornamentals....Pages 641-648
Pictorial Portrait Indexing Using View-Based Eigen-Eyes....Pages 649-657
Image Retrieval Using Fuzzy Triples....Pages 657-664
Variable-Bit-Length Coding: An Effective Coding Method....Pages 665-674
Block-Constrained Fractal Coding Scheme for Image Retrieval....Pages 675-682
Efficient Algorithms for Lossless Compression of 2D/3D Images....Pages 683-690
LucentVision ™ : A System for Enhanced Sports Viewing....Pages 691-698
Building 3D Models of Vehicles for Computer Vision....Pages 699-704
Integrating Applications into Interactive Virtual Environments....Pages 705-712
Structural Sensitivity for Large-Scale Line-Pattern Recognition....Pages 713-721
Complex Visual Activity Recognition Using a Temporally Ordered Database....Pages 722-729
Image Database Assisted Classification....Pages 730-738
A Visual Processing System for Facial Prediction....Pages 739-748
Semi-interactive Structure and Fault Analysis of (111)7×7 Silicon Micrographs....Pages 749-756
Using Wavelet Transforms to Match Photographs of Individual Sperm Whales Identified by the Contour of the Trailing Edge of the Fluke....Pages 757-764
From Gaze to Focus of Attention....Pages 765-772
Automatic Interpretation Based on Robust Segmentation and Shape-Extraction....Pages 773-780
A Pre-filter Enabling Fast Frontal Face Detection....Pages 781-789
A Technique for Generating Graphical Abstractions of Program Data Structures....Pages 790-797
Visual Presentations in Multimedia Learning: Conditions that Overload Visual Working Memory....Pages 798-805
Visualization of Spatial Neuroanatomical Data....Pages 806-814
Visualization of the Cortical Potential Field by Medical Imaging Data Fusion....Pages 815-822
Applying Visualization Research Towards Design....Pages 823-829