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NL-KR Digest Mon Jan 22 07:56:49 PST 1996 Volume 15 No. 6
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Program: Visual'96 Visual Information Systems, Feb 96, Melbourne
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:39:39 +1100 (EST)
From: Zheng Zhi Jie <zheng@matilda.vut.edu.au>
To: "Geert-Jan M. Kruijff" <gj@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Program: Visual'96 Visual Information Systems, Feb 96, Melbourne
Program & Call for Participation
VISUAL '96: FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
5-6 February 1996, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
WWW: http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96
FTP: matilda.vut.edu.au, directory pub/visual96
Email: visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)3 9688 4249
Fax: +61 (0)3 9688 4050
Post: Visual '96 Conference Secretariat
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Victoria University of Technology, Footscray Campus
PO Box 14428, MCMC
Melbourne, Victoria 8001, AUSTRALIA
Keynote Addresses
================Professor Tosiyasu Kunii, The University of Aizu, Japan
- Modelling Hyperworlds
Professor Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Towards Multidimensional Languages
Associated Events (6-8 February 1996)
====================================Talk by Tosiyasu Kunii on The University of Aizu
Tutorial by Borko Furht on Interactive TV Systems (half-day)
Tutorial by P. Venkat Rangan on Multimedia Systems (one-day)
In cooperation with
==================Digital Equipment Corporation
Silicon Graphics Inc.
IEEE Victorian Section
Australian Computer Society
Victoria University of Technology
Monash University
Swinburne University of Technology
University of Melbourne
Aims & Scope
===========With the widespread use of multimedia information, there is a
pressing requirement to efficiently manage, store, manipulate and
retrieve images and pictorial data in a wide spectrum of
applications. As many organisations currently maintain large
collections of images, the need for flexible visual information
management is already critical. Future information systems in
commercial and scientific applications will have a high visual
content, and it is necessary to integrate the visual and image
components into the architecture of organisational information
systems. Such visual components will tend to permeate all
information systems and in time will not be regarded as a distinct
element, but will form an essential part of any information
system, working alongside and in harmony with structured
information processing components.
The conference will focus attention on the management of visual
information. Over 50 papers will be presented by authors from
Australia, Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong,
India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Singapore, UK
and USA, in the following areas:
- Architecture of visual information systems
- Data modelling for visual information systems
- Memory organisation and management
- Feature recognition and extraction
- Feature and content indexing
- Picture description and representation languages
- Query model and paradigms for visual information
- Query language for visual information retrieval
- Content-based search and retrieval
- Integration of visual and non-visual information
- Compression and delivery of visual information
- Image processing and manipulation
- Parallel processing in visual information systems
- Specific applications areas of visual information systems
Venue
====Victoria University of Technology, Footscray Campus
Corner of Ballarat & Geelong Rds, Footscray VIC 3011
Program (57 talks & 5 posters)
=============================Registration Cocktails: Sunday 4 February
5.30 - 7pm, Union Tavern, Bldg M Level 0
PROGRAM FOR DAY 1: MONDAY 5 FEBRUARY
9.00 - 10.30: Inauguration Session, Room M0.01
- Inaugural Address
Prof. Paul Clark, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University ofTechnology
- Keynote Address
Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii, The University of Aizu, Hyperworld Modelling
10.30 - 11.00: Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 12.40: Parallel Sessions 1
Session A1: Room 1
- Flanagin
Of Windows, Widgets and Wings: the search for cross platform UI devices
- Rose & Schloss
QSBA: a Query, Search and Browse Assistant for images on the Web
- Sourina & Boey
Geometric query model for accessing multidimensional data
- Wegner et al.
QBE-like queries and multimedia extensions in a nested relational DBMS
Session B1: Room 2
- C. Chang & S. Lee
Indexing and approximate matching for content-based time-series data in
video databases
- Lauderdale et al.
An improved algorithm for lossless smoothing of MPEG video with delay
constraints
- Y. Leung
Presentation techniques for large visual information systems
- Wu & Suter
A comparison of methods for scene change detection in noisy image sequence
Session C1: Room 3
- Bose et al.
Object recognition through affine invariant feature indexing technique
- Chetty & Deshpande
Comparison of two neuro-vision schemes for an object recognition system
in manufacturing environment
- Faber
A relaxation method to classification of straight line segments
- Gevers & Smeulders
Evaluating color- and shape-invariant image indexing for consumer
photography
12.40 - 1.45: Lunch, Raceview Suite
1.45 - 3.25: Poster Session, Conference Centre Reception Area
* H. Liu, On homogeneity of visual query representations over the CASE
repository
* A. Lui, D. Bone, Integrating graphical editing into sparse data interpo-
lation using non-uniform thin plate splines
* W. Tong, A novel representation of line and its applications in robot
vision
* E. Trichina, A. Kolesnikov, Parallel implementation of width-independent
fast thinning algorithm
* K. Yamamoto, Visulan: a visual programming language for self-changing
bitmap
1.45 - 3.25: Parallel Sessions 2
Session A2: Room 1
- Ferri et al.
An object-oriented modelling of clinical data for a multimedia patient
folder management system
- Hildebrandt & Tang
Integration of an image processing and database system
- Jin et al.
Hierarchical data structure for visual data in multimedia systems
- N. Tam & Fu
R-tree indexing by multiple processors
Session B2: Room 2
- Aisbett & Gibbon
Improving information consistency and retrieval in multimodal information
systems
- Khan & Yun
Object-oriented associative learning and retrieval with complex dynamics
- Lu
Image retrieval based on shapes
- Sun et al.
Knowledge-based and content-driven image retrieval system
Session C2: Room 3
- Idris & Panchanathan
Algorithms for the indexing of compressed images
- M. Lee & Adjeroh
Indexing & retrieval in visual databases via colour ratio histograms
- Zheng et al.
Spur filters for MRI brain images using conjugate transformation
- Mir Mohamad Hosseini & Bouzerdoum
A scale- and rotation-invariant method for Persian and Arabic character
recognition
3.25 - 3.45: Short Break
3.45 - 5.00: Parallel Sessions 3
Session A3: Room 1
- Kurokawa et al.
Information visualization environment for character-based database systems
- Ciaccia et al.
Similarity search in multimedia database systems
- Mo et al.
A study of image recognition by using retrieval technique of similar image
from scene database
Session B3: Room 2
- K. Wong & Lum
Approximate retrieval of multimedia objects with natural language queries
- Yaginuma & Sakauchi
Content-based retrieval and decomposition of TV drama based on inter-media
synchronization
- Zheng & C. Leung
Random verification of 1D cellular automata images for image retrieval
Session C3: Room 3
- Palhang & Sowmya
Learning object models from real images
- Tu & Dubuisson
Accurate line recovering in image of 3D scene
- Les
Aesthetic evaluation based on image understanding approach
6.00 - 9.00: Conference Dinner
- Bamboo House, 47 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
PROGRAM FOR DAY 2: TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY
9.00 - 10.00: Keynote Session, Room 1
- Keynote Address
Prof. Shi-Kuo Chang, U. of Pittsburgh, Towards Multidimensional Languages
10.00 - 10.30: Tea/Coffee
0.30 - 12.10: Parallel Sessions 4
Session A4: Room 1
- Brinkschulte et al.
Visualization and manipulation of structured information
- Ord & Gray
3-D viewing system for multimedia applications
- Regan
Information diagrams for the DOOMed generation
- Steinmetz
DiVidEd: A distributed video production system based on MPEG
Session B4: Room 2
- Baciu & B. Lee
Building constrained 3D multibody systems in virtual environments
- Bhatnagar & Dhar
The context time protocol: a hypermedia protocol for high speed networks
- C. Lee et al.
A visual programming environment for computer vision for Windows
- Mirenkov & Mirenkova
Multimedia skeletons and "filmification" of methods
Session C4: Room 3
- Khalifa et al.
A prototype spatial-temporal reasoning system for emergency management
- Kundur & Raviv
Active-vision-based control schemes for local navigation tasks
- Kundur & Raviv
A change detection criterion for machine vision applications
- Tong
Joint transformation for controlling an active vision platform
12.10 - 1.25: Lunch, Raceview Suite
1.25 - 1.55: Special Presentation, Silicon Graphics Inc.
2.00 - 3.40: Parallel Sessions 5
Session A5: Room 1
- Rehatschek
Preliminary design of a distributed planetary image data archive based
on an ATM network
- Sokolewicz
Information marketing on the Internet
- Worring et al.
System design for structured hypermedia generation
- Kawata et al.
EVE: a visual specification environment with support for formal
descriptions of physical properties
Session B5: Room 2
- Hammerle & Uhl
Parallel algorithms for fractal image coding on MIMD architectures
- Jiang
A neural network based algorithm for lossless image compression
- Nagasawa
Surface data compression using vector representations
- Tischer & Lindarto
Binary segmentation-based image coding
Session C5: Room 3
- Cong & S. Ma
Image processing by derivative dyadic wavelets
- Cong & S. Ma
Zero-crossing location preserved nonlinear diffusion
- Li & S. Ma
A linear approach to 3D reconstruction of high degree planar curves
- You et al.
Parallel image matching on distributed shared memory network
3.40 - 4.00: Short Break
4.00 - 5.00: Panel Discussion, Room 1
- Emerging Paradigms in Visual Information Systems
6.00 - 7.30: Associated Event, Room M0.01
- Professor Tosiyasu Kunii, The University of Aizu
To advance knowledge for humanity in the era of information superhighways
- An establishment of a new open university -
Associated Events
Tosiyasu Kunii's Talk on The University of Aizu
To advance knowledge for humanity in the era of information
superhighways - an establishment of a new open university -
Time: Tuesday 6 February 6pm to 7.30pm
Informal dinner afterwards, RSVP by email
Place: Bldg M Room M0.01
VUT, Footscray (Cnr Ballarat & Geelong Rds)
Abstract:
Looking at the potential impact of information highways, the
historical analysis gives a surprisingly simple story on what will
be their impact on the human society: a completely cooperative
society with more potential than exploring the entire earth's
surface. We information specialists will play key roles. A
mechanism to link the human society with information societies on
the information superhighways needs to be developed, including
direct control robots driven by visual information systems. The
University of Aizu was established to take part in this mission.
Speaker's Biography:
Tosiyasu Kunii is President of The University of Aizu and
Professor of its Department of Computer Software. Before joining
the University of Aizu in 1993, Prof. Kunii was a professor at the
University of Tokyo, where he proposed and initiated the
establishment of Information Science Laboratories of the Faculty
of Science, which was advanced to the status of Department of
Information Science in 1975. He has been on the Founding Committee
of the University of Aizu since 1989, and was appointed President
of the University of Aizu in April 1993. He is Founder of the
Computer Graphics Society, Fellow of IEEE, Founding Editor and
Editor-in-Chief of The Visual Computer, International Journal of
Shape Modeling, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Visualization
and Computer Animation, and on the editorial board of various
international journals including IEEE Computer Graphics and
Applications. He has authored and edited more than 40 computer
science books, and published more than 180 refereed academic and
technical papers in computer science and applications areas. He
also served as committee member and chair at various international
conferences.
Tutorial 1: Interactive Television Systems (Half-day)
====================================================
Time: Wednesday 7 February 9am to 12
Place: VUT, Footscray
Instructor:
Prof. Borko Furht, Director of Multimedia Laboratory at Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Description:
Can TV sets ever be made interactive? It may not be a question
of "if" but "when"! In this tutorial, we will present the state
-of-the-art in on-demand, interactive television. We will
present network architectures for interactive TV and candidate
architectures for information superhighways and evaluate their
topologies, protocols and media. Cable and telephone companies'
viewpoints to migrate to interactive, video on demand (VOD)
systems will be analyzed. We will describe access technologies,
such as hybrid fiber-coax and asymmetric digital subscriber
line, which allow the use of traditional coaxial cable and
twisted-pair copper for interactive TV (ITV).
We will also discuss the design issues for ITV systems,
including large multimedia servers and interactive TV set top
boxes (STB). We will present STB functions and potential
hardware and software STB architectures. We will give several
examples of partitioning an application between the STB and the
multimedia server. The tutorial will end with presenting
several experimental ITV systems in USA: Time Warner's system
in Orlando, Bell Atlantic's system in northern Virginia, and
GTE's system in Carritos, California. We will present our
vision of the future office and home environments and the
future computer/TV system that will have an access to the Full
Service Network. We will also give our vision of a future
information superhighway.
Instructor's Biography:
Borko Furht is a professor of computer science and engineering at
Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and the founder
and director of the Multimedia Laboratory, funded by the National
Science Foundation. He has published over 120 papers, 9 books, and
holds 2 patents. He is editor-in-chief of the new Journal of
Multimedia Tools and Applications, and a member of the Editorial
Boards for Real-Time Systems Journal and Real-Time Imaging Journal.
His recent books include IEEE Tutorial Guided Tour of Multimedia
Systems and Applications (1995), Video and Image Processing in
Multimedia Systems (Kluwer 1995), and Multimedia Systems and
Techniques (Kluwer 1996). He has received several technical and
publishing awards, and has consulted for a number of high-tech
companies, such as IBM, NASA, Xerox, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, RCA and Cordis. He is also on the Board
of Directors of the Worldwide Internet Solutions Network, Inc. Dr.
Furht is a member of the New York Academy of Science and senior
member of the IEEE.
Target Audience:
This tutorial is intended for system designers, engineers and
programmers who are involved in distributed multimedia system
design, video-on-demand applications, and interactive TV systems.
It is also intended for anyone interested in receiving an overview
of interactive television systems, network architectures for ITV,
and the vision of future information superhighways. The tutorial
assumes little or no familiarity with interactive TV systems, and
some familiarity with multimedia systems.
Tutorial 2: Multimedia Systems (One-day)
=======================================
Time: Thursday 8 February 9am to 4.30pm
Place: VUT, Footscray
Instructor:
Prof. P. Venkat Rangan, University of California at San Diego,
California
Description:
Systematically teaches the foundations and advanced techniques of
content creation, technology development and design of multimedia
systems: capture, encoding, storage, indexing, authoring,
publishing, retrieval, delivery and display. Includes hands-on
demonstrations of multimedia application prototypes.
Outline:
1. Motivation, application types, and state of the art.
2. Digital video & audio fundamentals, video capture &
compression: JPEG, px64 & MPEG international standards.
3. Multimedia authoring, orchestrating presentations, CD-ROM and
WWW publishing.
4. Multimedia networking & cable TV architectures: ATM;
interactive video on demand for entertainment: storage,
database retrieval, distribution & delivery to metropolitan
area clientele.
5. Video editing and synchronization.
Instructor's Biography:
Professor P. Venkat Rangan is an internationally renowned
scientist in the field of multimedia systems. Professor Rangan
directs the Multimedia Laboratory at the University of California,
San Diego where he is an associate professor of Computer Science.
The UCSD Multimedia Lab is one of the first leading centers of
research and Dr. Rangan is well known for his pioneering
contributions in the areas of multimedia on-demand servers, media
synchronization, and multimedia communication and collaboration.
Dr. Rangan has over 70 publications and holds two patents in the
area of optimal video-on-demand delivery over metropolitan area
networks. Dr. Rangan is editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer-Verlag
International Journal of Multimedia Systems and was program chair
of ACM Multimedia 93 (First International Conference on
Multimedia).
Target Audience:
This tutorial is intended for:
1. Engineers and scientists who want to incorporate digital
multimedia into future products and R&D.
2. Software and telecommunications professionals who want to
identify and develop innovative multimedia applications and
solutions of global demand.
3. System managers who want to install multimedia computers and
networks in corporate, industrial, government, commercial or
educational environments.
4. Architects, artists, designers, and performers who want to use
multimedia packages & special effects.
5. Marketing and sales professionals who want to employ multimedia
corporate presentations.
6. Managers & executives who want to expand their company product
lines in emerging multimedia markets.
Conference & Tutorials Registration Form
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Visual '96 $475 $
- Full-time Student $275
Extra copy of Proceedings _____ @ $60 $
Extra Conference Dinner _____ @ $60 $
Tutorial 1: Interactive TV Systems
- Regular $190 $
- Visual '96 Registrant $140
- Full-time Student $100
Tutorial 2: Multimedia Systems
- Regular $390 $
- Visual '96 Registrant $340
- Full-time Student $190
Total amount to be paid: $
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Please mail or fax this page by 2 February 1996 to:
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Visual '96 Secretariat
Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences
Victoria University of Technology
P.O. Box 14428, MCMC
Melbourne VIC 8001 Australia
Voice: +613 9688 4249 Fax: +613 9688 4050
Email: visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au
WWW: http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96
Suggestions for Accommodation
============================
The following rates have been set for Visual '96 registrants;
please mention Visual '96 when you book your room.
1. Victoria Hotel: $68/$78 single, $85/$99 double
Lower rate = basic motel-style room; higher rate = room in business
section. Government rates are slightly lower.
215 Little Collins St., Melbourne 3000.
Voice: +613 653 0441, Fax: +613 650 9678
Toll-free in Australia: 008 331 147.
In CBD (Central Business District). 5-10-minute walk to train
station.
2. Windsor Hotel: $225 or $350+ single/double/twin
103 Spring St., Melbourne 3000.
Voice: +613 653 0653, Fax: +613 654 5183.
In CBD (Central Business District). 1-minute walk to train station.
3. Midgate Motor Lodge: $60 single, $65 double, +$10 per child
No restaurant, but close to restaurant at Footscray Motor Inn (see
above).
76 Droop St., Footscray 3011.
Voice: +613 689 2300, Fax: +613 689 2334.
5-minute walk to VUT; tram, bus or 10-15-minute walk to train
station.
4. Student Village: approx. $25 for single room in 2/3-bdrm unit
with bath
Cnr. Hampstead & Williamson Rd., Maribyrnong 3032.
Voice: +613 317 2300, Fax: +613 318 5232.
Tram or bus (10-20-minute intervals, 10-20-minute ride) to VUT or
to train station.
Bistro serves dinner (about $6); $4 continental breakfast box,
delivered to rooms.
5. Footscray Motor Inn: $83 single, $85 twin, $102 executive
90 Droop St., Footscray 3011.
Voice: +613 687 6877, Fax: +613 689 1286.
5-minute walk to VUT; tram, bus or 10-15-minute walk to train
station.
Taxi and Public Transport Costs
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Approximate Taxi Fares:
$20-25 between airport and accommodation, $10-12 between CBD and
VUT, $5 between VUT and Student Village.
Public Transport:
There are frequent trains between the CBD and Footscray station.
$4.10 for Daily Zone-1 ticket, valid on all Met buses, trains and
trams. $2.10 for 2-hour Zone-1 ticket, valid on all Met buses,
trains and trams for the rest of the evening if purchased after 6
pm (Met services run until midnight).
Climate
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Summer days are usually sunny and warm, with an average maximum
temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and average minimum temperature
of 14 degrees Celsius. On average, in February, there are 7 days
of rain totalling 37mm.
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