This paper presents a new Object Oriented Probabilistic Relational language which is built upon the Bangsø Object Oriented Bayesian Network framework. We are currently studying the application of this language for situation assessment in complex military and business domains.

This thesis presents an exploratory framework for automatically generating hierarchical object representations specialized for geometric tasks. The approach consists of two subprocesses: the rst extracts geometric information from the input object, and the second generates a specialized representation based on this information. The rst subprocess produces a multi-resolution representation that ...

Recent advances in wireless sensor networks and positioning technologies have boosted new applications that manage moving objects. In such applications, a dynamic index is often built to expedite evaluation of spatial queries. However, development of efficient indexes is a challenge due to frequent object movement. In this paper, we propose a new update-efficient index method for moving objects...

Extensible markup language (XML), a simplified version of standard generalized markup language (SGML), is designed to enable electronic text interchange in the Internet. XML documents have a rigorously described structure that may be analyzed by computers and easily understood by humans. Most current approaches store XML documents in file systems or in relational database systems. However, the ...

Object recognition is central to perception and cognition. Yet relatively little is known about the environmental factors that cause invariant object recognition to emerge in the newborn brain. Is this ability a hardwired property of vision? Or does the development of invariant object recognition require experience with a particular kind of visual environment? Here, we used a high-throughput co...