Foundation of Computational Visualistics

PD Dr. Jörg R. J. Schirra studierte Informatik, Physik, Philosophie und Psychologie an der Universität des Saarlandes. Nach einem längeren Forschungsaufenthalt in Berkeley habilitierte er sich an der Fakultät für Informatik der Universität Magdeburg.

Table of Content.- 1 Images in Computer Science: Clarifications Required.- 1.1 The Age of the Images.- 1.2 Toward Information Society.- 1.3 Images and Computers: The Digital Picture.- 1.4 Requirements for a Modem Computer Scientist.- 1.5 Determining the Goal.- 2 Computational Visualistics: Seen from its Roots.- 2.1 Computer Science: Subject and Methodology.- 2.2 Visualistics and the Many Sciences of Pictures / Images.- 2.3 Computational Visualistics and the Data Type »Image«.- 3 Preliminary Clarifications from Visualistics.- 3.1 Pictures on the Border: Overlooking a Wide Kingdom.- 3.2 A Synthetic Proposal: Images as "Perceptoid" Signs.- 3.3 Image and Object.- 3.4 Image and Language.- 3.5 Image and Image User.- 3.5.5 Reflective Communication & Pictures of Art.- 3.6 Conclusions for Computational Visualistics.- 4 The Generic Data Type »Image«: General Aspects.- 4.1 The Organizational Principle of the Discussion.- 4.2 Syntactic Aspects.- 4.3 Semantic Aspects.- 4.4 Pragmatic Aspects.- 5 Case Studies: Using the Data Type »Image«.- 5.1 Semantic Requests to Image Databases in IRIS.- 5.2 Rhetorically Enriched Pictures.- 5.3 A Border Line Case: Immersion.- 5.4 Another Border Line Case: Mental Images.- 6 Conclusions - Perspectives.- 6.1 The Foundation of Computational Visualistics.- 6.2 The Components of the Data Structure »Image«.- 6.3 The Future of an Institutional Computational Visualistics.- Appendices.- A Notes.- B References.- C List of Figures.- D List of Table.- E Name Index.- F Subject Index.