FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy Irregular Variable Length Coding by Robert G. Maunder In this thesis, we introduce Irregular Variable Length Coding (IrVLC) and investigate its applications, characteristics and performance in the context of digital multimedia broadcast telecommunications. During IrVLC encoding, the m...

In this paper, we describe, analyze and compare techniques for extracting spatial knowledge from a terrain model. Specifically, we investigate techniques for extracting a morphological representation from a terrain model based on an approximation of a Morse-Smale complex. A Morse-Smale complex defines a decomposition of a topographic surface into regions with vertices at the critical points and...