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Following the successes of the previous International Conferences
of VISual Information System which had been held in
Miami, Melbourne, San Diego, Amsterdam, Leon and Taiwan, the 7th
International Conference on VISual information
systems is a particularly special event in that it will be held in
conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Distributed
Multimedia Systems, DMS'04,
at Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, USA, September
8-10, 2004.
The
synergy of the two closely related research communities of distributed
multimedia computing and visual information systems is expected to generate
exciting discussions and lively exchanges that will lead to new
paradigms and approaches in the respective fields.
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The handling of visual
information is boosted by the rapid increase hardware and internet
capabilities. The advances in sensors have turned all kinds of information
into digital form.
The technology for visual
information systems is more urgently needed than ever before. What is
needed are new computational methods to index, compress, retrieve and
discover pictorial information, new algorithms for the archival and access
to very large amount of digital images and videos, and new systems with
friendly visual interfaces.
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The theme of
visual information processing, features extraction and aggregation at
semantic level and content-based retrieval, and the study of user intention
in query processing will continue to be an area of great interests in VIS research. As the
digital content becomes widespread, issues of delivery and consumption of
multimedia content are topics of this workshop as well.
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