There is a strong need for advances in the fields of image indexing and retrieval and visual query languages for multimedia databases. Image technology is facing both classical and novel problems for the organization and filtering of increasingly large amounts of pictorial data. Novel kinds of problems, such as indexing and high-level content-base, accessing to image databases, human interaction with multimedia systems, approaches to multimedial data, biometrics, data mining, computer graphics and augmented reality, have grown into real-life issues. The papers in this proceedings volume relate to the subject matter of multimedia databases and image communication. They offer different approaches which help to keep the field of research lively and interesting.
Author(s): Andrea F. Abate, Michele Nappi, Monica Sebillo
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 132
CONTENTS ......Page 9
Preface ......Page 7
1. Introduction ......Page 11
2. Multimodal documents modelling ......Page 13
3. Context-awareness in document modelling ......Page 18
4. Multimodal documents instantiation ......Page 19
References ......Page 21
1. Enhancing GIS: from Visual Languages to Conceptuat Spaces. ......Page 23
References ......Page 30
1. Introduction ......Page 31
2. Attribute Strings and User profiles representation ......Page 32
3. Selection and ordering of most relevant results ......Page 36
4. Case study ......Page 37
5. Concluding remarks ......Page 38
References ......Page 39
1. Introduction ......Page 41
2. The Underlying Technique ......Page 42
3. Discussion ......Page 46
4. Conclusions and Future Work ......Page 47
References ......Page 49
1. Introduction ......Page 51
2. The Method ......Page 52
3. Memory and Time complexity Analysis ......Page 55
4. Experimental results ......Page 57
5. Conclusions ......Page 58
References ......Page 59
1. Introduction ......Page 61
2. Related works ......Page 62
3. The proposed method ......Page 63
4. Experiments and Discussion ......Page 70
References ......Page 71
1. Introduction ......Page 73
2. Theoretical background ......Page 75
3. Spherical PPS Visualizations ......Page 79
4. Experiments ......Page 81
5. Conclusions ......Page 83
References ......Page 84
A Study on Recovering the Cloud-Top Height from Infra-Red Video Sequences ......Page 85
1. Introduction ......Page 86
2. Geometry of the satellite viewing system ......Page 88
3. Description of the method ......Page 89
4. Experimental assessment ......Page 91
5. Conclusions ......Page 94
References ......Page 95
Powerful Tools for Data Mining: Fractals Power Laws SVD and More ......Page 97
1. Power laws and fractals ......Page 98
2. Singular Value Decomposition ......Page 99
References ......Page 100
1. Introduction ......Page 103
2. System Architecture ......Page 106
3. The News Video Database ......Page 108
4. Experimental Results ......Page 109
5. Conclusions ......Page 113
References ......Page 114
1. Introduction ......Page 115
2. 3D - TV Content Creation ......Page 116
3. Compression ......Page 118
4. Interactive Display ......Page 119
5. Outlook ......Page 120
References ......Page 121
1. Introduction ......Page 123
2. The Method ......Page 124
3. Results ......Page 128
4. Discussion ......Page 131
References ......Page 134
