Advances In Visual Information Management: Visual Database Systems; Editor: Arisawa, Hiroshi; Editor: Catarci, Tiziana; Hardback; Book

Editor: Arisawa, Hiroshi; Editor: Catarci, Tiziana
Series#:168; International Federation for Information Processing; Hardback; Book
424 pages
Published: April 2000
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
ISBN: 0792378350
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This state-of-the-art book explores new concepts, tools, and techniques for both visual interfaces to database systems and management of visual data. It provides intensive discussion of original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and evaluation. The following topics are covered in detail: -- Video retrieval; -- Information visualization; -- Modeling and recognition; -- Image similarity retrieval and clustering; -- Spatio-temporal databases; -- Visual querying; -- Visual user interfaces.The book also includes invited lectures by recognized leaders in the fields of user interfaces and multimedia database systems. These are 'hot' topics within the main themes of the book and are intended to lay the seeds for fruitful diThis exploration of concepts, tools, and techniques for both visual interfaces to database systems and management of visual data, provides intensive discussion of original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and evaluation.