This study examines the effect of the number of crimes and topographical detail on police officer predictions of serial burglars’ home locations. Officers are given 36 maps depicting three, five, or seven crime sites and topographical or no topographical details. They are asked to predict, by marking an X on the map, where they thought each burglar lived. After making their predictions on half ...

The primary sensory cortices are characterized by a topographical mapping of basic sensory features which is considered to deteriorate in higher-order areas in favor of complex sensory features. Recently, however, retinotopic maps were also discovered in the higher-order visual, parietal and prefrontal cortices. The discovery of these maps enabled the distinction between visual regions, clarifi...

A simple neuronal model for medial axes codification in biological vision systems is presented which is based on the concept of the propagation of wavefronts along topographically organized cortical structures.

This thesis introduces a new algorithm for quickly answering repetitive least-cost queries between pairs of points on the Earth's surface as represented by digital topographical maps. The algorithm uses a three-step process; preprocessing, geometrically modified Dijkstra search, and postprocessing. The preprocessing step computes and saves highly valuable global information that describes the u...

This report investigates the application of two Computer Vision techniques for characterizing critical regions in digital terrain maps: Skeletonization and Topographical Region Detection. The Navigation Path Planning problem involves nding the optimal path through a digital terrain Map and must minimize a cost function while satisfying the constraints of navigation. This process is computationa...