NSF Workshop On Visual Information Management Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 1991

从卫星图像到小学课本，我们的日常生活中充满了以图像形式呈现的信息。由于如此多的信息是以非字母数字的形式存在的，作为数据库中思想的自然延伸，研究人员开始探索图像数据库的设计和实现。这一领域的进展需要来自计算机科学和其他领域的不同领域的研究人员之间的密切互动。为使数据库、面向对象系统、图像和信号处理、多媒体和其他相关领域的活跃研究人员汇聚一堂，将组织一次讲习班。除了上述和相关领域的研究人员外，还将邀请一些有兴趣将这些系统应用于工业、医疗保健、全球变化等领域的研究人员和从业者。实践者将为讨论提供意见，以保证在这一新兴领域工作的研究人员和实践者将设计出有用的系统。参与者将来自学术机构、研究中心、政府和工业界。研讨会的报告将提交给国家科学基金会，并将广泛宣传。该报告将确定研究人员应解决的主要研究领域，以设计适用于广泛应用领域的用户友好的可视信息管理系统。

From satellite images to elementary school textbooks, our everyday life is full of information presented in the form of images. Since so much information is in non-alphanumeric form, as a natural extension of the ideas in databases, researchers started exploring the design and implementation of image databases. The progress in this area requires close interaction among researchers from disparate areas of computer science and other fields. To bring together active researchers in databases, object-oriented systems, image and signal processing, multi- media, and other related areas a workshop will be organized. In addition to the researchers in the above and related areas, a few researchers and practitioners interested in applying these systems in industry, health-care, global change and other areas will be invited. The practitioners will provide input into the discussion to guarantee that useful systems will be designed by researchers and practitioners working in this emerging area. The participants will be drawn from academic institutions, research centers, Government, and industry. The report of the workshop will be submitted to NSF and will be widely publicized. The report will identify major research areas that should be addressed by researchers for designing user-friendly visual information management systems suitable for a wide range of application domains.