First International Conference on Visual Information Systems
5-6 February 1996
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(All information may be viewed on the WWW
Keynote Addresses
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Professor Tosiyasu Kunii, The University of Aizu, Japan
- Hyperworld Modelling
Professor Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Toward Multidimensional Languages
Associated Events (details below)
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Talk by Tosiyasu Kunii on The University of Aizu
Tutorial by Borko Furht on Interactive TV Systems
Tutorial by P. Venkat Rangan on Multimedia Systems
Aims & Scope
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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 these 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
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Victoria University of Technology, Footscray Campus
Corner of Ballarat & Geelong Rds, Footscray VIC 3011
Contact Information
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visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au
WWW
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
Clement Leung, Chair, Program Committee
clement@matilda.vut.edu.au
Audrey Tam, Chair, Organizing Committee
amt@matilda.vut.edu.au
A Partial List of Accepted Papers (full list)
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F. Idris & S. Panchanathan, Algorithms for the indexing of
compressed images
U. Brinkschulte, M. Siormanolakis, H. Vogelsang, Visualization &
manipulation of structured information
A. Steinmetz, DiVidEd: A distributed video production system based
on MPEG
G. Baciu, B. Lee, Building constrained 3D multibody systems in
virtual environments
V. Bhatnagar & P. Dhar, The context time protocol: a hypermedia
protocol for high speed networks
P. Ciaccia, F. Rabitti, P. Zezula, Similarity search in multimedia
database systems
N. Mirenkov & T. Mirenkova, Multimedia skeletons and
"filmification" of methods
Y. Yaginuma & M. Sakauchi, Content-based retrieval & editing of TV
drama based on intermedia synchronization
M. Worring, C. van de Berg, L. Hardman, System design for
structured hypermedia generation
J. Sun, Z. Liu, R. Sacks-Davis, Knowledge-based and content-driven
image retrieval system
J. Aisbett & G. Gibbon, Improving information consistency &
retrieval in multimodal information systems
Y. Wu & D. Suter, A comparison of methods for scene change
detection in noisy image sequence
B. Regan, Information diagrams for the DOOMed generation
J. Jin, H. Greenfield, S. Preece, J. Seo, Hierarchical data
structure for visual data in multimedia systems
G. Cong & S. Ma, Image processing by derivative dyadic wavelets
L. Li & S. Ma, A linear approach to 3D reconstruction of high
degree planar curves
O. Sourina & S. Boey, Geometric query model for accessing
multidimensional data
Y. Khalifa, S. Chang, L. Comfort, A prototype system for temporal
and spatial reasoning in emergency management
S. Kundur, D. Raviv, Active-vision-based control schemes for local
navigation tasks
J. Khan & D. Yun, Holographic memory for object-oriented learning
and retrieval in image archive
Conference & Tutorials Registration Form
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(PostScript version is available from the Web page)
(If you are not attending the Conference, please register for
tutorials on the Tutorial-only Registration Form)
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Before After Enter
Fees & Extras 7 Jan 96 7 Jan 96 amount
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Visual '96 $385 $475 $
- Full-time Student $225 $275
Extra copy of Proceedings _____ @ $60 $
- Overseas postage: add $15 $
Extra Conference Dinner _____ @ $60 $
Tutorial 1: Interactive TV Systems
- Visual '96 Registrant $100 $140 $
- Full-time Student $60 $100
Tutorial 2: Multimedia Systems
- Visual '96 Registrant $300 $340 $
- Full-time Student $150 $190
Date: ___/___/___ Total amount to be paid: $
Payment
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Please pay in Australian dollars, by credit card, institution or
bank cheque payable to VUT (Visual '96)
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For Presenters:
Standard presentation equipment includes overhead projector, PC
with Windows/XVision and DataShow with high-output OHP. Other
equipment available includes SGI Indy, Sun or DEC workstations,
Macintosh and video player. Please let us know what equipment you
will need, so that we can schedule presentations accordingly:
Please mail or fax this page by 29 January 1995 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
Associated Events
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Tosiyasu Kunii's Talk on The University of Aizu
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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
Place: VUT, Footscray. Informal dinner afterwards, RSVP by email
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)
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Time: Wednesday 7 February 9am to 12
Place: VUT, Footscray
Cost: $150/$190 before/after 7 January 1996, Full-time students
$60/$100, Regular Visual '96 Registrants $100/$140
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)
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Time: Thursday 8 February 9am to 4.30pm Place: VUT, Footscray
Cost: $350/$390 before/after 7 January 1996, Full-time students
$150/$190, Regular Visual '96 Registrants $300/$340
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.
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Tutorial-only Registration Form
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(PostScript version is available from the Web page)
(Please use the Conference & Tutorials Registration Form if you
are registering for Visual '96 at the same time)
Name: ________________________________________________
(Title, Given name, Middle initial, Family name)
Organization: ________________________________________________
Department: ________________________________________________
Postal address: ________________________________________________
________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________
Facsimile: ____________________
Email: ____________________
Please tick if you do not want this email address linked to your
name on the Visual '96 Registrants Web page: [ ]
Before After Enter
Fees (include lunch) 7 Jan 96 7 Jan 96 amount
==============================================================
Tutorial 1:
Interactive TV Systems $150 $190 $
- Full-time Student $60 $100
- Visual '96 Registrant $100 $140
Tutorial 2:
Multimedia Systems $350 $390 $
- Full-time Student $150 $190
- Visual '96 Registrant $300 $340
Date: ___/___/___ Total amount to be paid: $
Payment
=======
Please pay in Australian dollars, by credit card, institution or
bank cheque payable to VUT (Visual '96)
Cheque No. _______ Drawn on __________________
[ ] Mastercard [ ] Visa [ ] Bankcard
Card No. __ __ __ __-__ __ __ __ -__ __ __ __-__ __ __ __
Cardholder Name _______________________________
Expires __/__ Signature__________________________
Please mail or fax this page by 29 January 1995 to:
Visual '96 Secretariat
Dept 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
Conference Venues (Map on WWW)
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Victoria University of Technology, Footscray Campus (corner of
Ballarat & Geelong Roads): Registration cocktails (Sunday
evening), presentations, tutorials
Conference dinner (Monday evening): venue to be announced
Suggestions for Accommodation
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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.