Visual and Multimedia Information Management

Keynote Papers.- Hyperdatabases.- Federated Information Systems for Communities.- Relevance Feedback in CBIR.- Invited Paper.- An Overview of Oracle Chart Builder and Mapviewer.- Papers.- Som-Based K-Nearest Neighbors Search in Large Image Databases.- Partial Image Retrieval Using Color Regions and Spatial Relationships.- High-Dimensional Image Indexing Based on Adaptive Partitioning and Vector Approximation.- The Segmentation and Classification of Story Boundaries in News Video.- Architecture and Implementation of an Interactive Tool for the Design and Visualization of Active Capability.- Indexing Images in High-Dimensional and Dynamic-Weighted Feature Spaces.- Modeling Multimedia Displays Using Action Based Temporal Logic.- An Entropy-Based Approach to Visualizing Database Structure.- Visual Query Processing for GIS with Web Contents.- Spatio-Temporal Modelling and Querying Video Databases Using High-Level Concepts.- Perfect Line Simplification for Visualization in Digital Cartography.- Balancing Fidelity and Performance in Virtual Walkthrough.- Aural Interfaces to Databases Based on VoiceXML.- Visual Querying in Geographic Information Systems.- Automatic Annotation and Retrieval of Images.- Visualization of Web-Based Australian Export Trading.- The Metric Histogram: A New and Efficient Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Designing Dynamic Web Pages in the Wysiwyg Interface.- Improving Image Retrieval with Semantic Classification Using Relevance Feedback.- Oral-Query-by-Sketch: An XML-Based Framework for Speech Access to Image Databases.- Querying Video Data by Spatio-Temporal Relationships of Moving Object Traces.- Multi-View Combined Visual Similarity Retrieval for Face Database.- DVQ: A DTD-Driven Visual Query Interface for XML Database Systems.- Modelling and Indexing of Fuzzy Complex Shapes.