Virtual Systems and Multimedia: 13th International Conference, Vsmm 2007, Brisbane, Australia, September 23-26, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2008)

Virtual Heritage.- Using a Dance Pad to Navigate through the Virtual Heritage Environment of Macquarie Lighthouse, Sydney.- 3D City Model of the Ancient Hue, Vietnam; Reconstruction of the City Environment for the Cultural Heritage Identity Conservation.- A Conversation on the Efficacies of the Game Engine to Address Notions of Sacred Space: The Digital Songlines Project and Transgressions of Sacredness.- Digital Tools for Heritage Information Management and Protection: The Need of Training.- Beyond the Map: Issues in the Design of a Virtual 3D Knowledge Space for Aboriginal Knowledge.- The Irreducible Ensemble: Place-Hampi.- Reconstructing the West Mebon Vishnu: A Marriage of Traditional Artefactual Analysis with Digital 3D Visualization.- Applied Technologies.- From Manual to Automated Optical Recognition of Ancient Coins.- Adding Semantic Annotations, Navigation Paths and Tour Guides to Existing Virtual Environments.- A View-Based Real-Time Human Action Recognition System as an Interface for Human Computer Interaction.- Knowledge Based Lacunas Detection and Segmentation for Ancient Paintings.- SmartVolumes - Adaptive Voronoi Power Diagramming for Real-Time Volumetric Design Exploration.- Virtual Environment.- Constructing a Virtual Tower of Babel: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Collaboration Across Three Continents.- Evolutionary Virtual Agent at an Exhibition.- The Metaplastic Virtual Spaces.- Embodied Communication in the Distributed Network.- Interactive High Resolution Texture Mapping for the 3D Models of Cultural Heritages.- Prototypes for Automated Architectural 3D-Layout.