Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Papers

   1. A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data

      • Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko

      Pages 1-4

   2. Locational Awareness on the Internet

      • Franz Leberl

      Pages 5-5

   3. Virtual Spaces: From the Past to the Future

      • Shi Kuo Chang

      Pages 6-6

3. Information and Data Visualization

   1. Better Perception of 3D-Spatial Relations by Viewport Variations

      • Markus Jobst, Jürgen Döllner

      Pages 7-18

   2. Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information

      • Olivier Swienty, Mathias Jahnke, Holger Kumke, Simone Reppermund

      Pages 19-30

   3. Navigation and Search in 3D Visualizations of Large Unstructured Photo Collections: An Empirical Study

      • Olivier Christmann, Noëlle Carbonell

      Pages 31-43

   4. Evaluation of Information Visualization Tools Using the NFR Approach

      • Pushpa Kumar, Nary Subramanian, Kang Zhang

      Pages 44-55

   5. Interactive Exploration of Large Dynamic Networks

      • Mathias Pohl, Peter Birke

      Pages 56-67

   6. Flood Emergency Interaction and Visualization System

      • Rui Nóbrega, André Sabino, Armanda Rodrigues, Nuno Correia

      Pages 68-79

   7. 3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces

      • Georg Fuchs, Mathias Holst, René Rosenbaum, Heidrun Schumann

      Pages 80-91

   8. Dynamic Buffer Areas Obtained by EFCM Method in GIS Environment

      • Ferdinando Di Martino, Salvatore Sessa

      Pages 92-95

   9. Automatic G1 Surface Reconstruction from Serial Cross-Sectional Images

      • Fatimah Yahya, Jamaludin Md Ali, Ahmad Abdul Majid, Arsmah Ibrahim

      Pages 96-99

   10. Operational Risk Visualization

       • Concetto Bonafede, Roberto Marmo

       Pages 100-103

4. Advanced Techniques for Visual Information Management

   1. Classification-Based Color Constancy

      • Simone Bianco, Gianluigi Ciocca, Claudio Cusano, Raimondo Schettini

      Pages 104-113

   2. An Optimized Fuzzy Based Short Term Object Motion Prediction for Real-Life Robot Navigation Environment

      • Vijay S. Rajpurohit, M. M. Manohara Pai

      Pages 114-125

   3. Experiments on Selection of Codebooks for Local Image Feature Histograms

      • Ville Viitaniemi, Jorma Laaksonen

      Pages 126-137

   4. Extending KDDML with a Visual Metaphor for the KDD Process

      • Valerio Grossi, Andrea Romei

      Pages 138-149

   5. Inter-frame and Inter-layer Motion Prediction during Fast Block Motion Estimation in MCTF

      • A. K. Karunakar, M. M. Manohara Pai

      Pages 150-154

5. Mobile Visual Information Systems

   1. L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users

      • Alessandro M. Martellone, David Tacconi, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Giuliana Vitiello

      Pages 155-166

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL 2008, held in Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008. The 35 papers presented in this volume, together with 3 keynote speeches, were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The topics covered are information and data visualization; advances techniques for visual information management; mobile visual information systems; image and video indexing and retrieval; applications of visual information systems; and industrial experiences.

• 3D visualization
• Multimedia
• adaptive user interfaces
• calculus
• classification
• cognitive workload
• collaborative indexing
• computer vision
• concept-based search
• content-based image retrieval
• curve fitting
• dynamic indexing
• electronic voting systems
• emergency
• visualization

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