Visual objects are high-level primitives that are fundamental to numerous perceptual functions, such as guidance of attention. We report that objects warp visual perception of space in such a way that spatial distances within objects appear to be larger than spatial distances in ground regions. When two dots were placed inside a rectangular object, they appeared farther apart from one another t...

To determine the 3D orientation and 3D location of objects in the surroundings of a camera mounted on a robot or mobile device, we developed two powerful algorithms in object detection and temporal tracking that are combined seamlessly for robotic perception and interaction as well as Augmented Reality (AR). A separate evaluation of, respectively, the object detection and the temporal tracker d...

Applications requiring sophisticated modeling techniques raise challenging issues to software designers. CAD/CAM and genetics are example of applications that call for powerful modeling techniques. Existing approaches seem limited in their ability to support their demands. Relational database systems for example support only simple tables. The need to enhance their capabilities led to non-norma...

This article starts with a comment on John White’s published in 2019 the London Review of Education , 17 (3), entitled ‘The end powerful knowledge?’, and particularly point made about specialized knowledge its relation to knowledge. It is argued here that it important clarify distinction between knowledge, systematic what Young Muller mean by as, while these are related, they not equivalent. No...

As the information carried in a high spatial resolution image is not represented by single pixels but by meaningful image objects, which include the association of multiple pixels and their mutual relations, the object based method has become one of the most commonly used strategies for the processing of high resolution imagery. This processing comprises two fundamental and critical steps towar...

We present a general approach for re-engineering of object-oriented database schemata. The approach consists of four dependent steps: (1) description of the data within the underlying basic data format, (2) application of a powerful semantic data model in order to construct a semantic database schema, (3) translation of the achieved schema into a general object model, and (4) implementation of ...

The object-relational database management systems (ORDBMS) appear due to the common acceptance of the object oriented paradigm and its integration with relational databases, combining the powerful modelling capabilities of the object oriented model and the robustness of relational model. ORDBMSs user defined types allow to create a framework for fuzzy information handling. This paper proposes t...

The main purpose of this paper is to design, implement and measure a new sample of mantle cloak. A new method called mantle cloak is introduced by cloaking an object by a single, conformal meta-surface which can drastically suppress the scattering of the desired object. In this paper, a grid lattice is placed around a dielectric object as the cloaking structure. Previously, this FSS has been ut...