Multimedia Databases and Image Communication Proceedings of the Workshop on MDIC 2004, Salerno, Italy, 22 June 2004

A context-aware framework for multimodal document databases / Augusto Celentano and Ombretta Gaggi -- Endowing geographic information systems with a cognitive level / Alessio De Simone, Ferrante Formato and Nicla Palladino -- A simple fuzzy extension to the search of documents on the web / Luidi D̮i Lascio [und weitere] -- Developing a system for the retrieval of melodies from web repositories / Ricardo Distasi, Luca Paolino and Giuseppe Scanniello -- Fast face recognition using fractal range/domain classification / Daniel Riccio -- A method for 3D face recognition based on mesh normals / Stafano Ricciardi and Gabriele Sabatino -- High-D data visualization methods via probabilistic principal surfaces for data mining applications / A. Staiano [und weitere] -- A study on recovering the cloud-top height from infra-red video sequences / Anna Anzalone, Francesco Isgrò and Domenico Tegolo -- Powerful tools for data mining : fractals, power laws, SVD and more / Christos Faloutsos -- An unsupervised shot classification system for news video story detection / M. De Santo [und weitere] -- 3D-TV - the future of visual entertainment / M. Magnor -- Entropy as a feature in the analysis and classification of signals / Andrea Casanova and Sergio Vitulano