Although intensive work has been devoted to spatio-temporal qualitative reasoning models, some issues such as management of complex objects life and motion remain. In this paper, we propose a model dealing with existence and presence of object concepts. First, we introduce spatio-temporal states, which express existing spatio-temporal relationships between two objects at a given time. Spatio-te...

In order to cope with the enormous amount of 3-D Spatio-Temporal Image data we have proposed a method to transform 3-D Spatio-Temporal Image into 2-D Spatio-Temporal Images to reduce processing time for 3-D information acquisition. In this paper, we will extend the camera motion to enhance our previous method for building 3-D information acquisition from urban street images. The creation of 2-D...

Spatio-temporal clustering is a process of grouping objects based on their spatial and temporal similarity. It is relatively new subfield of data mining which gained high popularity especially in geographic information sciences due to the pervasiveness of all kinds of location-based or environmental devices that record position, time or/and environmental properties of an object or set of object...

Space and time are implicit in every activity of life. Every real-world object has its past, present, future and hence is intrinsically tied up with location and time. Storing spatio-temporal attributes in the databases along with the thematic attributes enriches the data and the inherent knowledge stored in the database. Spatio-temporal databases provide description of real-world phenomenon in...

Acoustic signals can encode crucial information about species identity and individual quality. We recorded and compared male courtship drum sounds of the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus and the painted goby P. pictus and examined if they can function in species recognition within sympatric populations. We also examined which acoustic features are related to male quality and the factors that af...

Information pertaining to visual motion is used in the brain not only for conscious perception but also for various kinds of motor controls. In contrast to the increasing amount of evidence supporting the dissociation of visual processing for action versus perception, it is less clear whether the analysis of visual input is shared for characterizing various motor outputs, which require differen...

Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene perceptio...

Meta-analyses are increasingly popular. It is unknown whether this popularity is driven by specific countries and specific meta-analyses types. PubMed was used to identify meta-analyses since 1995 (last update 9/1/2012) and catalogue their types and country of origin. We focused more on meta-analyses from China (the current top producer of meta-analyses) versus the USA (top producer until recen...

It is widely accepted that the perception of human voices is supported by neural structures located along the superior temporal sulci. However, there is an ongoing discussion to what extent the activations found in fMRI studies are evoked by the vocal features themselves or are the result of phonetic processing. To show that the temporal lobes are indeed engaged in voice processing, short utter...

How should the accuracy of eyewitness identification decisions be measured, so that best practices for identification can be determined? This fundamental question is under intense debate. One side advocates for continued use of a traditional measure of identification accuracy, known as the diagnosticity ratio, whereas the other side argues that receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) sh...