Executive coaching can focus on personal behavior change, enhancing leadership effectiveness, fostering stronger relationships, personal development, and/or work–family integration or specific performance issues on the job. K. M. Wasylyshyn (2003a) and H. Levinson (personal communication, 2003) suggested that executive coaching reaches for a deeper level of clinical and therapeutic intervention...

Authoring embodied, highly interactive virtual agents (IVAs) for robust experiences is an extremely difficult task. Current architectures for creating those agents are so complex that it takes enormous amounts of effort to craft even short experiences, with lengthier, polished experiences (e.g., Facade, Ada and Grace) often requiring person-years of effort by expert authors. However, each archi...

The Simple Query Interface (SQI) is a query transport standard that is becoming widely used within the e-learning community. Thanks to a common WSDL binding, SQI-compliant repositories of learning resources can query each other. This common binding directly maps the SQI specification. As a consequence, many remote calls (known to present an important latency) are necessary to query a repository...

This paper presents an approach to the reading of the architectural semantics of drawings. Topological constraints on objects are used to represent various types of groups where the groups produce repeating patterns. A process model of visual rhythm discovery is developed. Discovery of visual rhythms in an architectural facade is demonstrated.

The Bukchon area in Seoul boasts a high density of Hanok, the traditional Korean architecture representing region. Because Hanok facade plays vital role streetscape formation, we must record it terms social, cultural, historical, artistic, and scenic values. However, recording an existing building through drawing or image information is time consuming labor intensive, therefore costly. Further,...

In recent years, the classification task of building facade images receives a great deal of attention in the photogrammetry community. In this paper, we present an approach for regionwise classification using an efficient randomized decision forest classifier and local features. A conditional random field is then introduced to enforce spatial consistency between neighboring regions. Experimenta...

We introduce a novel approach for separating and segmenting individual facades from streetside images. Our algorithm incorporates prior knowledge about arbitrarily shaped repetitive regions which are detected using intensity profile descriptors and a voting–based matcher. In the experiments we compare our approach to extended state–of–the–art matching approaches using more than 600 challenging ...

Extracting 3-dimensional structure from real-world imagery and rendering it from unrestricted viewpoints is an important problem in computer vision, and increasingly, computer graphics. Despite many years of research, a system that automatically recovers realistic 3-D models from images remains elusive; most practical systems require signiicant human input. However, unlike automatic algorithms,...