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 ...

Designing hypermedia systems might be a complex task as soon as the number of chunks of information to organize is large. In the task of designing hypermedia systems, interactive dynamic maps can provide designers with a better understanding of the semantics of the underlying set of documents, thus providing assistance in the design process. In this paper we present topic maps and techniques fo...

In this paper we propose an ontological framework for tools facilitating creative writing and story reading. It is based on an ontology implemented as a topic map and employs linguistic analysis methods for discovering conceptual entities in the text.

Visuomotor adaptation has been thought to be an implicit process that results when a sensory-prediction error signal is used to update a forward model. A striking feature of human competence is the ability to receive verbal instructions and employ strategies to solve tasks; such explicit processes could be used during visuomotor adaptation. Here, we used a novel task design that allowed us to o...

This paper deals with the optical recognition of text data in documents such as engineering drawings, land-use and land-register maps, and utility maps. The automatic computer acquisition of these documents is performed through the basic steps of vectorization of the line-structure and recognition of the text data interspersed in the document. The latter data are usually handwritten by professi...

Semantic data regarding points of interest in urban areas are hard to visualize. Due to the high number of points and categories they belong, as well as the associated textual information, maps become heavily cluttered and hard to read. Using traditional visualization techniques (e.g. dot distribution maps, typographic maps) partially solve this problem. Although, these techniques address diffe...

For each object in a tensor triangulated category, we construct a natural continuous map from the object’s support—a closed subset of the category’s triangular spectrum—to the Zariski spectrum of a certain commutative ring of endomorphisms. When applied to the unit object this recovers a construction of P. Balmer. These maps provide an iterative approach for understanding the spectrum of a tens...

Sketch maps are drawn from memories and they are in general schematized and distorted. However, the schematizations and distortions are not random. They are a consequence during the cognitive process of perceiving, memorizing and producing spatial layout. This paper describes an empirical study to investigate the impact of distortions on similarity perception. The study is designed as a human-s...