Multiple topographic representations of sensory space are common in the nervous system and presumably allow organisms to separately process particular features of incoming sensory stimuli that vary widely in their attributes. We compared the response properties of sensory neurons within three maps of the body surface that are arranged strictly in parallel to two classes of stimuli that mimic pr...

The initial stages of the evolution of an open quantum system encode the key information of its underlying dynamical correlations, which in turn can predict the trajectory at later stages. We propose a general approach based on non-Markovian dynamical maps to extract this information from the initial trajectories and compress it into non-Markovian transfer tensors. Assuming time-translational i...

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For many GIS applications the data entry component is the most expensive, and frequently makes the difference between success and failure of the project, in terms of both time and money. The most time-consuming part of manual digitizing is usually the generation of correct topology, which usually involves many of error correction steps. The automatic processing of scanned maps appears to have m...

forest types mapping, is one of the most necessary elements in the forest management and silviculture treatments. traditional methods such as field surveys are almost time-consuming and cost-intensive. improvements in remote sensing data sources and classification –estimation methods are preparing new opportunities for obtaining more accurate forest biophysical attributes maps. this research co...

Is the encoding of content and format necessary for representing beliefs? In three experiments using ”false-representation” tasks, we explored whether beliefs were processed like non-mental representations, under the assumption that non-mental representations require both content and format to be processed. First, beliefs were compared to sentences (linguistic medium) while keeping representati...

The saliency map model (Itti and Koch, 2000) is a hierarchically structured computational model, simulating visual saliency processing. Iso-feature processing on feature maps and conspicuity maps precedes cross-dimensional signal processing on the master map, where the most salient location of the visual field is selected. This texture segmentation study focuses on a possible spatial structure ...

in this paper, we used a shape matching algorithm to recognize farsi digits. for each sampled point on the contour of a shape, we obtain a descriptor showing the distribution of the other points of the contour, with respect to this point. based on these descriptors, we find the corresponding points of the two contours and take the sum of their distances as a dissimilarity measure between two sh...

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the European Mars Express mission began operation in January 2004. With this camera system new standards were set for the acquisition, processing and cartographic application of planetary data, in other words a new era of planetary cartography began. A new cartographic concept for the planet Mars has been designed. The cartographic standard product is...

A biologically inspired cognitive architecture is described which uses navigation maps (i.e., spatial locations of objects) as its main data elements. The are also used to represent higher-level concepts well direct operations perform on other maps. Incoming sensory information mapped local then in turn matched with the closest multisensory maps, and onto a best-matched map. Enhancements feedba...