Genetic algorithms are becoming of great interest in the search of global solutions. Model acquisition, digital geometry and shape reconstruction techniques are important for 2D and 3D object recognition. Spatial reasoning needs new spatial data structure and flexible inference rules. Multimedia databases, digital and video libraries need efficient image and video methods for compression and coding. Image databases and video processing require suitable indexing and retrieval solutions.
Visual languages allows the natural and optimized formulation of visual computing.
Both visual communication and human-computer interaction are based on advanced visual interfaces. More emphasis will be done to real cases and working prototypes. The Conference Proceedings book will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.