Workshop on Visual Information Management
June 19, 1995

In the last few years, many researchers have begun building systems
for visual information management.  Such systems encompass central
aspects of databases, image processing and image understanding, very
sophisticated interfaces, knowledge based system, compression and
decompression, and object oriented systems.  The challenge for vision
researchers is to develop tools for analyzing the semantic content of
video and image, representing that context in a way that can be
efficiently searched and compared, and finally delivering that content
to users in the form of a useful, focused presentation.To help
stimulate research and communication in this area we are organizing a
workshop on visual information management systems, to be sponsored by
NSF and ARPA.  This one-day workshop will consist of presentations and
discussions involving more than 30 invited researchers from around the
world, will have an associated poster session, and will feature
computer demonstrations of several visual information management
systems.  It will be held on June 19 in the Brats Theater of the
Wiesner Building (Building E15--home of the Media Laboratory) at 20
Ames Street.  There is no registration fee. 

Organizers:             R. Jain         A. Pentland             D. Petrovic