CONTENTS -- Preface -- A Context-Aware Framework for Multimodal Document Databases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multimodal documents modelling -- 3. Context-awareness in document modelling -- 4. Multimodal documents instantiation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Endowing Geographic Information Systems with a Cognitive Level -- 1. Enhancing GIS: from Visual Languages to Conceptuat Spaces. -- Acknowtedgments -- References -- A Simple Fuzzy Extension to the Search of Documents on the Web -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Attribute Strings and User profiles representation -- 3. Selection and ordering of most relevant results -- 4. Case study -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Developing a System for the Retrieval of Melodies from Web Repositories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Underlying Technique -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Fast Face Recognition Using Fractal Range/Domain Classification -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Method -- 3. Memory and Time complexity Analysis -- 4. Experimental results -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- A Method for 3D Face Recognition Based on Mesh Normals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related works -- 3. The proposed method -- 4. Experiments and Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- High-D Data Visualization Methods via Probabilistic Principal Surfaces for Data Mining Applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Spherical PPS Visualizations -- 4. Experiments -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- A Study on Recovering the Cloud-Top Height from Infra-Red Video Sequences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Geometry of the satellite viewing system -- 3. Description of the method -- 4. Experimental assessment -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Powerful Tools for Data Mining: Fractals Power Laws SVD and More -- 1. Power laws and fractals -- 2. Singular Value Decomposition -- 3. Conclusions -- References -- An Unsupervised Shot Classification System for News Video Story Detection -- 1. Introduction -- 2. System Architecture -- 3. The News Video Database -- 4. Experimental Results -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- 3D-TV - The Future of Visual Entertainment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 3D - TV Content Creation -- 3. Compression -- 4. Interactive Display -- 5. Outlook -- References -- Entropy as a Feature in the Analysis and Classification of Signals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References.