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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 focused attention on the management of visual information. Over 50 papers have been presented by authors from Australia, Austria, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Singapore, UK and USA.
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