VISUAL 2000
4th International Conference on Visual Information Systems
Lyon, France, November 2-4, 2000


Web site : http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/LISI/visual/


AIMS AND SCOPE


At the turn of the millenium, the age of visual information systems
(VIS) is
coming. Enabled by picture sensors of all kinds turning digital, visual
information will not only enhance the value of existing information, it
will also open up a new horizon of previously untapped information
sources. There is a huge demand for visual information access on the
consumer side. And, the handling of visual information is boosted by the
rapid increase of hardware and Internet capabilities. Advanced
technology for visual
information systems is more urgently needed than ever before: not only
new computational methods to retrieve, index, compress and uncover
pictorial information, but also new metaphors to organize user
interfaces. Also, new ideas and algorithms are requested allowing the
access to very large databases of digital pictures 
and videos. And, new systems with visual interfaces integrating the
above
components in new types of image, video or multimedia databases and
hyperdocuments. 


This will enable the construction of VIS radically different from
conventional information systems. Many novel issues will need to be
addressed: query formulation for pictorial
information, consistency management thereof, indexing and assessment of
quality of these
systems. 


We are looking especially for high-quality papers and novel
demonstrations in the following topics:


Application areas of visual information systems 
Benchmarking 
Browsable semantic representations
Compression and image content 
Content-based indexing, search and retrieval 
Delivery of visual information 
Dimensional reduction techniques
Feature (invariant) retrieval 
Huge raster image management and querying
Hypermedia of picture and text 
Image crawling the web 
Image databases 
Information space visualisation
Interactive segmentation
MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000 issues 
New visual metaphors to organize and access information
Optimization of pictorial queries
Parallel processing in visual information systems 
Picture book browsing
Picture representation languages 
Query models and languages
Relevance feedback approaches
Semantic-based similarity retrieval 
Video databases
Visual access to very large databases
Visual CASE tools
Visual data mining
Visual data modeling 
Visual information system architectures 
Visual information systems for E-Commerce
Visual languages for accessing very large visual databases
Visual query browsers
Visualizing pictorial and non-pictorial information 
Web-based Visual Information Systems




Organization


General Chair : Robert Laurini, Claude Bernard University of Lyon,
France
William Grosky, Wayne University, USA, American PC co-chair
grosky@cs.wayne.edu
Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia, Austalasian PC co-chair
Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Europan PC
co-chair 


Program committee


Marie-Aude Aufaure, University of Lyon I, France 
Josef Bigun, Halmstad Uni. and Chalmers Uni. of Technology, Sweden 
Patrice Boursier, University of La Rochelle, France 
Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA, France 
Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA 
S. K. Chang, U of Pittsburgh, USA 
Liming Chen, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France 
Tat-seng Chua, National University of Singapore 
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy 
Isabel Cruz, WPI, USA 
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy 
**Song De Ma , Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
(To be confirmed) 
Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips, USA 
André Flory, INSA of Lyon, France 
Borko Fuhrt, Florida Atlantic University, USA 
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 
Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, Australia 
Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
Luc van Gool, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 
Horace Ip, Hong Kong 
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA 
Jean-Michel Jolion, INSA of Lyon, France 
T. Kunii, Hosei U, Japan 
Nies Huijsmans, University of Leiden, the Netherlands 
Inald Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands 
Jinhua Ma, University of Aizu, Japan 
Rajiv Mehrotra, Kodak, USA 
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada 
Kingsley Nwosu, Lucent Technologies, USA 
Stelios Orphanoudakis, University of Crete, Greece 
Fernando Pereira, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal 
Masao Sakauchi, University of Tokyo 
Simone Santini, Praja, San Diego, California, USA 
Raimondo Schettini, CNR-Milan, Italy 
Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan 
John Smith, IBM, USA 
Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO, Macquarrie University, Australia 
Peter Stanchev, Wayne State University, USA 
Claude Trépied, University of Tours, France 
Remco Veltkamp, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 


Organization committee


Patrick Prevot, INSA of Lyon, France, Chair
Marie-Aude Aufaure, Claude Bernard University of Lyon
Stephane Bres, INSA of Lyon, France
Liming Chen, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Jean-Michel Jolion, INSA of Lyon, France
Jean-Yves Ramel, INSA of Lyon, France


Submission


Please, send full papers, limited to 15 pages and 3 Megabytes, together
with
authors' names and addresses to the Program Committee Chairman by March
15, 2000 only by
electronic submission to Professor Robert LAURINI, E-mail:
Robert.Laurini@if.insa-lyon.fr. 


The format of the papers should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science
(LNCS-style) of Springer Verlag. See
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details. TEX or LATEX
files will not be accepted. 


Deadlines :
        - March 15, 2000 submission deadlines for papers and demos
        - June 15, 2000 notification to authors
        - September 15, 2000 final texts required.