Advances in Visual Information Systems

Keynote Paper.- Visual Information Retrieval – Future Directions and Grand Challenges.- Image and Video Retrieval.- Approximation-Based Keypoints in Colour Images – A Tool for Building and Searching Visual Databases.- A Knowledge Synthesizing Approach for Classification of Visual Information.- Image Similarity – From Fuzzy Sets to Color Image Applications.- A Semi-automatic Feature Selecting Method for Sports Video Highlight Annotation.- Face Image Retrieval System Using TFV and Combination of Subimages.- Near-Duplicate Detection Using a New Framework of Constructing Accurate Affine Invariant Regions.- Where Are Focused Places of a Photo?.- Region Based Image Retrieval Incorporated with Camera Metadata.- Empirical Investigations on Benchmark Tasks for Automatic Image Annotation.- Automatic Detection and Recognition of Players in Soccer Videos.- A Temporal and Visual Analysis-Based Approach to Commercial Detection in News Video.- Salient Region Filtering for Background Subtraction.- A Novel SVM-Based Method for Moving Video Objects Recognition.- Image Classification and Indexing by EM Based Multiple-Instance Learning.- Visual Biometrics.- Palm Vein Extraction and Matching for Personal Authentication.- A SVM Face Recognition Method Based on Optimized Gabor Features.- Palmprint Identification Using Pairwise Relative Angle and EMD.- Finding Lips in Unconstrained Imagery for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition.- Intelligent Visual Information Processing.- Feature Selection for Identifying Critical Variables of Principal Components Based on K-Nearest Neighbor Rule.- Denoising Saliency Map for Region of Interest Extraction.- Cumulative Global Distance for Dimension Reduction in Handwritten Digits Database.- A New Video Compression Algorithm for Very Low Bandwidth Using Curve Fitting Method.- The Influence of Perceived Quality by Adjusting Frames Per Second and Bits Per Frame Under the Limited Bandwidth.- An Evolutionary Approach to Inverse Gray Level Quantization.- Visual Data Mining.- Mining Large-Scale News Video Database Via Knowledge Visualization.- Visualization of the Critical Patterns of Missing Values in Classification Data.- Visualizing Unstructured Text Sequences Using Iterative Visual Clustering.- Enhanced Visual Separation of Clusters by M-Mapping to Facilitate Cluster Analysis.- Multimedia Data Mining and Searching Through Dynamic Index Evolution.- Ubiquitous and Mobile Visual Information Systems.- Clustering and Visualizing Audiovisual Dataset on Mobile Devices in a Topic-Oriented Manner.- Adaptive Video Presentation for Small Display While Maximize Visual Information.- An Efficient Compression Technique for a Multi-dimensional Index in Main Memory.- RELT – Visualizing Trees on Mobile Devices.- Auto-generation of Geographic Cognitive Maps for Browsing Personal Multimedia.- Semantics.- Automatic Image Annotation for Semantic Image Retrieval.- Collaterally Cued Labelling Framework Underpinning Semantic-Level Visual Content Descriptor.- Investigating Automatic Semantic Processing Effects in Selective Attention for Just-in-Time Information Retrieval Systems.- News Video Retrieval by Learning Multimodal Semantic Information.- 2D/3D Graphical Visual Data Retrieval.- Visualization of Relational Structure Among Scientific Articles.- 3D Model Retrieval Based on Multi-Shell Extended Gaussian Image.- Neurovision with Resilient Neural Networks.- Applications of Visual Information Systems.- Visual Information for Firearm Identification by Digital Holography.- GIS-Based Lunar Exploration Information System in China.- Semantic 3D CAD and Its Applications in Construction Industry – An Outlook of Construction Data Visualization.- A Fast Algorithm for License Plate Detection.- Applying Local Cooccurring Patterns for Object Detection from Aerial Images.- Enticing Sociability in an Intelligent Coffee Corner.- Geometric and Haptic Modelling of Textile Artefacts.- A Toolkit to Support Dynamic Social Network Visualization.- The Predicate Tree – A Metaphor for Visually Describing Complex Boolean Queries.- Potentialities of Chorems as Visual Summaries of Geographic Databases Contents.- Compound Geospatial Object Detection in an Aerial Image.- Texture Representation and Retrieval Using the Causal Autoregressive Model.- An Approach Based on Multiple Representations and Multiple Queries for Invariant Image Retrieval.