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Summary: First International Conference on Visual Information Systems
Keywords: Visual Information Systems
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 04:02:49 GMT
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First International Conference on Visual Information Systems
5-6 February 1996
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

(All information may be viewed on the WWW at:
http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96)

Keynote Addresses
=================
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)
=================================
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
============
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
=====
Victoria University of Technology, Footscray Campus
Corner of Ballarat & Geelong Rds, Footscray VIC 3011

Contact Information
===================
visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au
http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96

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 at
http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96/acpapers.html)
===============================================
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
========================================
(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)
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 & Extras		7 Jan 96	7 Jan 96	amount
==============================================================
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
=======
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__________________________

Options
=======
Please tick if you plan to stay in a hotel:	
[   ] in the CBD	[   ] near VUT, in Footscray
Please tick if you prefer vegetarian meals:	
[   ] lacto-ovo	[   ] vegan	Other ______________________
	
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:
===================================================
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: http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96

Associated Events
=================
Tosiyasu Kunii's Talk on The University of Aizu
===============================================
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)
=====================================================
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)
========================================
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.

******************************************************************
Tutorial-only Registration Form
===============================
(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: http://www.vut.edu.au/~visual96

Conference Venues (Map on WWW)
==============================
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
=============================
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
===============================
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
=======
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.
