Zhe Jiang, [email protected] Abstract: My research explores novel computational techniques to map the physical cover (e.g., forests) of the earth’s surface from satellite images. Processing these images is labor-intensive and a significant burden on scientists. Existing methods ignore spatial information and assume that pixels are statistically independent. Consequently, they produce erroneous map...

One of the major issues in Robotics or more precisely in Intelligent Systems in current research and innovation is self awareness. The world of innovation in Robotics has been developing autonomous robots with the ability to reason, learn and accomplish basic tasks. Self mapping is one of these abilities and it is very crucial to any physical agent that claims to be aware of its environment. To...

We used a novel musical Stroop task to demonstrate that musical notation is automatically processed in trained pianists. Numbers were superimposed onto musical notes, and participants played five-note sequences by mapping from numbers to fingers instead of from notes to fingers. Pianists' reaction times were significantly affected by the congruence of the note/number pairing. Nonmusicians were ...

A spatial gamut mapping technique is proposed to overcome the shortcomings encountered with standard pointwise gamut mapping algorithms by preserving spatially local luminance variations in the original image. It does so by first processing the image through a standard pointwise gamut mapping algorithm. The difference between the original image luminance Y and gamut mapped image luminance Y’ is...

Three experiments investigated whether the similarity of relational structures influences the interpretation of spatial representations. Adults were shown diagrams of hand gestures paired with simple statements and asked to judge the meaning of new gestures. In Experiment 1 the gestures were paired with active declarative statements. In Experiment 2, the gestures were paired with conjunctive an...

This paper describes a simple research and pedagogical tool for thinking about color gamut compromises. The idea is to fabricate Mondrian-like images that have patches of different colors with intermediate spatial complexity between single stimuli and real complex images. These Gamut Mondrians can be used to illustrate the observations found in the literature and to act as a simple experimental...

5 Authors: 6 Markus Plank, Joseph Snider, Erik Kaestner, Eric Halgren, Howard Poizner 7 8 Departments / Institutions: 9 Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, UCSD; 10 Departments of Radiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, UCSD; Co-senior authors 11 12 Abbreviated title: 13 EEG correlates of spatial cognitive mapping 14 15 Corresponding author: 16 Howard...