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

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