The 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems
(VISUAL2007) will take place in Shanghai, China, 28 - 29 June 2007.

Conference Website: http://www.viplab.cs.nott.ac.uk/visual2007/

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\'s LNCS.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Ubiquitous visual information management
Pervasive multimedia information systems
Mobile visual information systems
Visual information for location-based services on PDAs
Applications of visual information systems
Visual information systems for security and antiterrorism applications 
sual information systems for e-learning and e-science applications
Web visual information systems
Ranking techniques and algorithms
Visual information indexing and retrieval
Visual query models and languages
Semantic models for visual information
2D and 3D graphical visual data retrieval
Fusion of visual and non-visual information
Benchmarking of visual information databases
Machine learning and pattern recognition techniques for visual
information management
Interactive and content-based image and video retrieval
Knowledge and ontology visualization
Visual data mining
Visualization of results in data mining
Visual information system architectures
Storage design and data management issues