Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management 10th International Conference, VISUAL 2008, Salerno, Italy, September 11-12, 2008, Proceedings

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.

Keynote Papers.- A Visual Analytics Approach to Exploration of Large Amounts of Movement Data.- Locational Awareness on the Internet.- Virtual Spaces: From the Past to the Future.- Information and Data Visualization.- Better Perception of 3D-Spatial Relations by Viewport Variations.- Effective Visual Scanning of Geographic Information.- Navigation and Search in 3D Visualizations of Large Unstructured Photo Collections: An Empirical Study.- Evaluation of Information Visualization Tools Using the NFR Approach.- Interactive Exploration of Large Dynamic Networks.- Flood Emergency Interaction and Visualization System.- 3D Mesh Exploration for Smart Visual Interfaces.- Dynamic Buffer Areas Obtained by EFCM Method in GIS Environment.- Automatic G1 Surface Reconstruction from Serial Cross-Sectional Images.- Operational Risk Visualization.- Advanced Techniques for Visual Information Management.- Classification-Based Color Constancy.- An Optimized Fuzzy Based Short Term Object Motion Prediction for Real-Life Robot Navigation Environment.- Experiments on Selection of Codebooks for Local Image Feature Histograms.- Extending KDDML with a Visual Metaphor for the KDD Process.- Inter-frame and Inter-layer Motion Prediction during Fast Block Motion Estimation in MCTF.- Mobile Visual Information Systems.- L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users.- MoViSys – A Visualization System for Geo-Referenced Information on Mobile Devices.- A New Approach Toward a Modular Multimodal Interface for PDAs and Smartphones.- Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Learning Rules for Semantic Video Event Annotation.- Two Step Relevance Feedback for Semantic Disambiguation in Image Retrieval.- An Architectural Paradigm for Collaborative Semantic Indexing of Multimedia Data Objects.- Evaluation of Quality Retaining Diagnostic Credibility for Surgery Video Recordings.- Techniques for Image Classification, Object Detection and Object Segmentation.- Applications of Visual Information Systems.- A Visual Framework for the Definition and Execution of Reverse Engineering Processes.- An Evolutionary General Purpose WebGIS to Disclose EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer.- Embedding Google Maps APIs into WebRatio for the Automatic Generation of Web GIS Applications.- DINDOW: Towards an Interaction Based on Spatio-temporal Memory.- Perception Model for People with Visual Impairments.- An Analysis of Improvements for Voter Interfaces in Polling Station and Remote Electronic Voting Systems.- Reasoning about Hand-Drawn Sketches: An Approach Based on Intelligent Software Agents.- Handling of Task Hierarchies on the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop.- Musimage: A System for Automatically Presenting Pictures Depending on the Music Being Played.- Industrial Experiences.- An Architecture for Multimedia Content Publishing with GIS-Based Retrieval Facility.- SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment.- GISTURISMO Massa-Carrara – Advanced Territory’s Dynamic Fruition Service for a Conscious Tourism.