Terrain reconstruction from images is an ill-posed, yet commonly desired Structure from Motion task when compositing visual effects into live-action photography. These surfaces are required for choreography of a scene, casting physically accurate shadows of CG elements, and occlusions. We present a novel framework for generating the geometry of landscapes from extremely noisy point cloud datase...

As community dwelling populations of older people and those living with chronic life limiting conditions continue to grow, the role everyday geographies, particularly based settings activities, in supporting health wellbeing has become a focus both research policy development. The therapeutic landscape scholarship provides holistic view how place promotes wellbeing, recent years expanded its fr...

Smart and sustainable communities seek to ensure comfortable quality of life for community residents, the environment landscape. Pollution is a key factor affecting within community. This research provides detailed insight into successfully developed deployed framework an environmental monitoring platform urban study monitor, in real time, air noise level two cities Dominican Republic—Santo Dom...

A model of coevolutioinary genetic algorithms (COGA) consisting of two populations coevolving on two-bit landscapes is investigated in terms of the effects of random partnering strategy, different population updating schemes, and changes in mutation rate and evolution rate. The analytical and numerical approaches showed that even in such a simple model, the dynamics can change dramatically with...

A fitness landscape is a genetic space – with two genotypes adjacent if they differ in a single locus – and a fitness function. Evolutionary dynamics produce a flow on this landscape from lower fitness to higher; reaching equilibrium only if a local fitness peak is found. I use computational complexity to question the common assumption that evolution on static fitness landscapes can quickly rea...

Multi-view face detection in open environments is a challenging task, due to the wide variations in illumination, face appearances and occlusion. In this paper, a robust method for multi-view face detection in open environments, using a combination of Gabor features and neural networks, is presented. Firstly, the effect of changing the Gabor filter parameters (orientation, frequency, standard d...

Predation is increasingly pointed out as one of the factors contributing to population declines of groundnesting farmland birds, though it remains poorly understood how ongoing transformations of agricultural landscapes affect predator assemblages. This study addressed this issue, estimating the contribution of landscape composition and configuration to spatial variation in species richness and...

Old-growth forests are of high interest for biodiversity conservation, especially in the disturbance-prone Mediterranean landscapes. However, it remains unclear whether survival patches old-growth forest degraded landscapes results from local anomalies or past, larger forests. Therefore, this study, we assessed (1) origin, (2) long-term ecological trajectory, and (3) mechanism(s) that explain a...

Several techniques exist to select and materialize a proper set of data in a suitable structure that manage the queries submitted to the online analytical processing systems. These techniques are called view management techniques, which consist of three research areas: 1) view selection to materialize, 2) query processing and rewriting using the materialized views, and 3) maintaining materializ...

This paper focuses on spatial experience and spatial categories in web-based 3Dvisualisation with special reference to current strategies for landscape planning communication. Historically, notions of landscape are inseparable from pictorial art and media, and the point made in this piece is that that also web-media may influence significantly the way we perceive landscapes. A popular categoric...