Visual information and information systems : Third International Conference, VISUAL '99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 1999 : proceedings

Visual Information Systems. - Supporting Image-Retrieval by Database Driven Interactive 3D Information-Visualization. - Video Libraries: From Ingest to Distribution. - Querying Multimedia Data Sources and Databases. - General Image Database Model. - System for Medical Image Retrieval The MIMS Model. - An Agent-Based Visualisation Architecture. - Error-Tolerant Database for Structured Images. - Interactive Visual Query. - Query Processing and Optimization for Pictorial Query Trees. - Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS. - Excluding Specified Colors from Image Queries Using a Multidimensional Query Space. - Generic Viewer Interaction Semantics for Dynamic Virtual Video Synthesis. - Category Oriented Analysis for Visual Data Mining. - User Interaction in Region-Based Color Image Segmentation. - Using a Relevance Feedback Mechanism to Improve Content-Based Image Retrieval. - Region Queries without Segmentation for Image Retrieval by Content. - Content-Based Image Retrieval over the Web Using Query by Sketch and Relevance Feedback. - Visual Learning of Simple Semantics in ImageScape. - Browsing Information Space. - Task Analysis for Information Visualization. - Filter Image Browsing. - Visualization of Information Spaces to Retrieve and Browse Image Data. - Mandala: An Architecture for Using Images to Access and Organize Web Information. - A Compact and Retrieval-Oriented Video Representation Using Mosaics. - Internet Search Engines. - Crawling, Indexing and Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Data on the Web in the Framework of MPEG-7. - A Visual Search Engine for Distributed Image and Video Database Retrieval Applications. - Indexing Multimedia for the Internet. - Crawling for Images on the WWW. - A Dynamic JAVA-Based Intelligent Interface for Online Image Database Searches. - Video Parsing. - Motion-Based Feature Extraction and Ascendant Hierarchical Classification for Video Indexing and Retrieval. - Automatically Segmenting Movies into Logical Story Units. - Local Color Analysis for Scene Break Detection Applied to TV Commercials Recognition. - Scene Segmentation and Image Feature Extraction for Video Indexing and Retrieval. - Automatic Recognition of Camera Zooms. - A Region Tracking Method with Failure Detection for an Interactive Video Indexing Environment. - Integrated Parsing of Compressed Video. - Improvement of Shot Detection Using Illumination Invariant Metric and Dynamic Threshold Selection. - Temporal Segmentation of MPEG Video Sequences. - Detecting Abrupt Scene Change Using Neural Network. - Multi-modal Feature-Map: An Approach to Represent Digital Video Sequences. - Robust Tracking of Video Objects through Topological Constraint on Homogeneous Motion. - Spatial Data. - The Spatial Spreadsheet. - A High Level Visual Language for Spatial Data Management. - A Global Graph Model of Image Registration. - A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Image Database Retrieval. - Motion Capture of Arm from a Monocular Image Sequence. - Visual Languages. - Comparing Dictionaries for the Automatic Generation of Hypertextual Links: A Case Study. - Categorizing Visual Contents by Matching Visual "Keywords". - Design of the Presentation Language for Distributed Hypermedia System. - A Generic Annotation Model for Video Databases. - Design and Implementation of COIRS (A COncept-Based Image Retrieval System). - Automatic Index Expansion for Concept-Based Image Query. - Features and Indexes for Image Retrieval. - Structured High-Level Indexing of Visual Data Content. - Feature Extraction: Issues, New Features, and Symbolic Representation. - Detection of Interest Points for Image Indexation. - Highly Discriminative Invariant Features for Image Matching. - Image Retrieval Using Schwarz Representation of One-Dimensional Feature. - Invariant Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Maxima Moment. - Detecting Regular Structures for Invariant Retrieval. - Color Image Texture Indexing. - Improving Image Classification Using Extended Run Length Features. - Feature Extraction Using Fractal Codes. - Object Retrieval. - Content-Based Image Retrieval Based on Local Affinely Invariant Regions. - A Framework for Object-Based Image Retrieval at the Semantic Level. - Blobworld: A System for Region-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval. - A Physics-Based Approach to Interactive Segmentation. - Ranking and Performance. - Assessment of Effectiveness of Content Based Image Retrieval Systems. - Adapting k-d Trees to Visual Retrieval. - Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Self-Organizing Maps. - Relevance Feedback and Term Weighting Schemes for Content-Based Image Retrieval. - Genetic Algorithm for Weights Assignment in Dissimilarity Function for Trademark Retrieval. - Shape Retrieval. - Retrieval of Similar Shapes under Affine Transform. - Efficient Image Retrieval through Vantage Objects. - Using Pen-Based Outlines for Object-Based Annotation and Image-Based Queries. - Interactive Query Formulation for Object Search. - Automatic Deformable Shape Segmentation for Image Database Search Applications. - A Multiscale Turning Angle Representation of Object Shapes for Image Retrieval. - Contour-Based Shape Similarity. - Computing Dissimilarity between Hand-Drawn Sketches and Digitized Images. - Retrieval Systems. - Document Generation and Picture Retrieval. - FLORES: A JAVA Based Image Database for Ornamentals. - Pictorial Portrait Indexing Using View-Based Eigen-Eyes. - Image Retrieval Using Fuzzy Triples. - Image Compression. - Variable-Bit-Length Coding: An Effective Coding Method. - Block-Constrained Fractal Coding Scheme for Image Retrieval. - Efficient Algorithms for Lossless Compression of 2D/3D Images. - Virtual Environments. - LucentVision(TM): A System for Enhanced Sports Viewing. - Building 3D Models of Vehicles for Computer Vision. - Integrating Applications into Interactive Virtual Environments. - Recognition Systems. - Structural Sensitivity for Large-Scale Line-Pattern Recognition. - Complex Visual Activity Recognition Using a Temporally Ordered Database. - Image Database Assisted Classification. - A Visual Processing System for Facial Prediction. - Semi-interactive Structure and Fault Analysis of (111)7x7 Silicon Micrographs. - Using Wavelet Transforms to Match Photographs of Individual Sperm Whales Identified by the Contour of the Trailing Edge of the Fluke. - From Gaze to Focus of Attention. - Automatic Interpretation Based on Robust Segmentation and Shape-Extraction. - A Pre-filter Enabling Fast Frontal Face Detection. - Visualization Systems. - A Technique for Generating Graphical Abstractions of Program Data Structures. - Visual Presentations in Multimedia Learning: Conditions that Overload Visual Working Memory. - Visualization of Spatial Neuroanatomical Data. - Visualization of the Cortical Potential Field by Medical Imaging Data Fusion. - Applying Visualization Research Towards Design.