------------------------------------------------------------- VISUAL2007 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems 28 ^Ö 29 June 2007 Shanghai, China URL: http://www.viplab.cs.nott.ac.uk/visual2007/ Call for Papers Next generation information system will have a high proportion of visual content, and visual information system will be an important paradigm in future information systems. The International Conference series on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL) is designed to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from different areas of computer science including computer vision, database, human computer interaction, image processing, information visualization, knowledge and information management, to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, present their latest results and to advance research and development in visual information systems. The conference has been held previously in Melbourne (1996), San Diego (1997), Amsterdam (1999), Lyon (2000), Taiwan (2002), Miami (2003), San Francisco (2004) and Amsterdam (2005). The 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL2007) will take place in Shanghai, China, 28 ^Ö 29 June 2007, hosted by Fudan University. The conference will be held immediately before IEEE ICME2007, 2-5 July 2007, Beijing. VISUAL2007 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing all aspects of visual information systems. Papers addressing practical applications of visual information systems are particularly welcome. It is planned to publish the conference proceedings in Springer^Òs LNCS. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: ^Õ Ubiquitous visual information management ^Õ Pervasive multimedia information systems ^Õ Mobile visual information systems ^Õ Visual information for location-based services on PDAs ^Õ Applications of visual information systems ^Õ Visual information systems for security and anti-terrorism applications ^Õ Visual information systems for e-learning and e-science applications ^Õ Web visual information systems ^Õ Ranking techniques and algorithms ^Õ Visual information indexing and retrieval ^Õ Visual query models and languages ^Õ Semantic models for visual information ^Õ 2D and 3D graphical visual data retrieval ^Õ Fusion of visual and non-visual information ^Õ Benchmarking of visual information databases ^Õ Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for visual information management ^Õ Interactive and content-based image and video retrieval ^Õ Knowledge and ontology visualization ^Õ Visual data mining ^Õ Visualization of results in data mining ^Õ Visual information system architectures ^Õ Storage design and data management issues Important Dates Paper Submission deadline 4 April 2007 Notification of acceptance 7 May 2007 Camera Ready paper 4th June 2007 Steering Committee S K Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy; Horace Ip, City University of 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, Australia; Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands General Chairs Robert Laurini INSA of Lyon, France Xiang-Yang Xue Fudan University, China Technical Program Chairs Clement Leung Hong Kong Baptist University and Victoria University, Australia Guoping Qiu University of Nottingham, UK Publicity Chairs Gerald Schaefer Aston University, UK Hong Lu Fudan University, China