Call For Papers The 8th International Conference on VISual Information Systems (VIS'2005) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 4-5, 2005 Following the successes of the previous International Conferences of VISual Information System which had been held in San Franciso, Miami, Melbourne, San Diego, Amsterdam, Lyon and Taiwan, the 8th International Conference on VISual information systems is a particularly special event in that it will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2005) which will be held in Amsterdam, July 6-8, 2005. See http://www.icme2005.org/ The synergy of the two closely related research communities of multimedia and visual information systems is expected to generate exciting discussions and lively exchanges that will lead to new paradigms and approaches in the respective fields. Conference Web-site: http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~laurini/vis2005 Related Topics: The conference will include, but is not restricted to, the following topics: 2D and 3D graphical visual data retrieval Benchmarking of image databases Chorems and applications Content-based indexing and retrieval Designing visual portals Fusion of pictorial and non-pictorial information Gestural queries and visual queries Graphic semiology for augmented reality Huge raster management and storage Hypermedia of picture and text Image and video archival and retrieval Image database Image crawling the web Implementing visual metaphors Knowledge and ontology visualization Mobile cartography (methodologies, cognition, systems, etc.) Mobile visual information systems Physical storage of image databases Pervasive multimedia information systems Picture representation languages Processing, features extraction and aggregation Realtime cartography Satellite image databases Semantic models for visual information Storage and data management issues Visual data-mining Visual information handling in e-learning Visual information system architectures Visual query browsers Visual query models and languages Visualization of results in data mining Visualizing pictorial and non-pictorial information Steering Committee of the VISual Information Systems conference series: S K Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ramesh Jain, University of California at San Diego, USA Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Hosei, Japan Robert Laurini, INSA of Lyon, France Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Program Chair: Robert Laurini, INSA of Lyon, France Program Committee: Josef Bigun, University of Halmstad, Sweden Stephane Bres, INSA de Lyon, France S K Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy David Forsyth, University of California at Berkeley, USA Borko Fuhrt, Florida Atlantic University, USA Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Jesse Jin, Newcastle University, Australia Inald Lagendijk, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Denis Laurendeau, Laval University, Canada Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia Michael Lew, U of Leiden, The Netherlands Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK Keith Nesbitt, Charles Stuart University, Australia Fernando Pereira, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, USA Simone Santini, University of California, San Diego, USA Raimondo Schettini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan H Lilian Tang, University of Surrey, UK Karl Tombre, LORIA, France Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno, Italy Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Important Dates: Paper Submission: 31 March, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 30 April, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 20 May, 2005 Conference dates: July 4-5, 2005. Paper Submission: Paper must be written in English. Please send electronic manuscript (MS words, pdf, postscript) with a 200-word abstract and no more than 8 pages of IEEE double column text (include figures and references) to: Prof. Robert LAURINI LIRIS - INSA de Lyon - Bāt B. PASCAL 7 av. Capelle F - 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex Fax : +33 4 72 43 87 13 Tel : +33 4 72 43 81 72 Email: Robert.Laurini@insa-lyon.fr http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~laurini