Advances in Visual Information Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Paper

   1. Visual Information Retrieval – Future Directions and Grand Challenges

      • Michael Lew

      Pages 1-4

3. Image and Video Retrieval

   1. Approximation-Based Keypoints in Colour Images – A Tool for Building and Searching Visual Databases

      • Andrzej Sluzek

      Pages 5-16

   2. A Knowledge Synthesizing Approach for Classification of Visual Information

      • Le Dong, Ebroul Izquierdo

      Pages 17-25

   3. Image Similarity – From Fuzzy Sets to Color Image Applications

      • Mike Nachtegael, Stefan Schulte, Valerie De Witte, Tom Mélange, Etienne E. Kerre

      Pages 26-37

   4. A Semi-automatic Feature Selecting Method for Sports Video Highlight Annotation

      • Yanran Shen, Hong Lu, Xiangyang Xue

      Pages 38-48

   5. Face Image Retrieval System Using TFV and Combination of Subimages

      • Daidi Zhong, Irek Defée

      Pages 49-60

   6. Near-Duplicate Detection Using a New Framework of Constructing Accurate Affine Invariant Regions

      • Li Tian, Sei-ichiro Kamata

      Pages 61-72

   7. Where Are Focused Places of a Photo?

      • Zhijun Dai, Yihong Wu

      Pages 73-83

   8. Region Based Image Retrieval Incorporated with Camera Metadata

      • Jie Ma, Hong Lu, YueFei Guo

      Pages 84-92

   9. Empirical Investigations on Benchmark Tasks for Automatic Image Annotation

      • Ville Viitaniemi, Jorma Laaksonen

      Pages 93-104

   10. Automatic Detection and Recognition of Players in Soccer Videos

       • Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Walter Nunziati

       Pages 105-116

   11. A Temporal and Visual Analysis-Based Approach to Commercial Detection in News Video

       • Shijin Li, Yue-Fei Guo, Hao Li

       Pages 117-125

   12. Salient Region Filtering for Background Subtraction

       • Wasara Rodhetbhai, Paul H. Lewis

       Pages 126-135

   13. A Novel SVM-Based Method for Moving Video Objects Recognition

       • Xiaodong Kong, Qingshan Luo, Guihua Zeng

       Pages 136-145

   14. Image Classification and Indexing by EM Based Multiple-Instance Learning

       • Hsiao T. Pao, Yeong Y. Xu, Shun C. Chuang, Hsin C. Fu

       Pages 146-153

4. Visual Biometrics

   1. Palm Vein Extraction and Matching for Personal Authentication

      • Yi-Bo Zhang, Qin Li, Jane You, Prabir Bhattacharya

      Pages 154-164

   2. A SVM Face Recognition Method Based on Optimized Gabor Features

      • Linlin Shen, Li Bai, Zhen Ji

      Pages 165-174

   3. Palmprint Identification Using Pairwise Relative Angle and EMD

      • Fang Li, Maylor K. H. Leung, Shirley Z. W. Tan

      Pages 175-184

   4. Finding Lips in Unconstrained Imagery for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition

      • Xiaozheng Jane Zhang, Higinio Ariel Montoya, Brandon Crow

      Pages 185-192

The Visual Information Systems International Conference series is designed to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from diverse areas of computing including computer vision, databases, human–computer interaction, information security, image processing, information visualization and mining, as well as knowledge and information management to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, present their latest results and to advance research and development in the construction and application of visual information systems. Following previous conferences held in Melbourne (1996), San Diego (1997), Amsterdam (1999), Lyon (2000), Taiwan (2002), Miami (2003), San Francisco (2004) and Amsterdam (2005), the Ninth International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL2007, was held in Shanghai, China, June 28–29, 2007. Over the years, the visual information systems paradigm continues to evolve, and the unrelenting exponential growth in the amount of digital visual data underlines the escalating importance of how such data are effectively managed and deployed. VISUAL2007 received 117 submissions from 15 countries and regions. Submitted full papers were reviewed by more than 60 international experts in the field. This volume collects 54 selected papers presented at VISUAL2007. Topics covered in these papers include image and video retrieval, visual biometrics, intelligent visual information processing, visual data mining, ubiquitous and mobile visual information systems, visual semantics, 2D/3D graphical visual data retrieval and applications of visual information systems.

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• Exif
• biometrics
• classification
• computer vision
• content-based image retrieval
• dynamic indexing
• face recognition
• feature extraction
• holography
• image information systems
• image processing
• machine learning
• multimedia data mining
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