In this paper we motivate a new technique for automatic recognition of hand-sketched igital ink. By viewing sketched drawings as utterances in a visual language, sketch recognition can be posed as an ambiguous parsing problem. On this premise we have developed an algorithm for ink parsing that uses a statistical model to disambignate. Under this formulation, writing a new recognizer for a visua...

The development of auditory-visual speech perception was investigated in pre-school children, school children and adults. Results show a link between auditory-visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception in school children. In addition it was found that speechreading ability in early childhood was predicted by cognitive abilities. Additionally, adults’ and preschool children...

UNLABELLED Human cortex is comprised of specialized networks that support functions, such as visual motion perception and language processing. How do genes and experience contribute to this specialization? Studies of plasticity offer unique insights into this question. In congenitally blind individuals, "visual" cortex responds to auditory and tactile stimuli. Remarkably, recent evidence sugges...

The implementation of visual programming languages (VPLs) and their supporting environments is time–consuming and tedious. To ease the implementation, researchers have developed some high level tools, which can greatly reduce the effort of developing VPLs. None of them, however, can be easily used to create a complete visual language in a seamless way like the lex/yacc tools for textual languag...

Language comprehension in grounded contexts involves integrating visual and linguistic information through decisions about visual fixation. But when the visual signal also contains information about the language source – as in the case of written text or sign language – how do we decide where to look? Here, we hypothesize that eye movements during language comprehension represent an adaptive re...

Visual languages are notations that employ graphics (icons, diagrams) to present information in a two or more dimensional space. This work focuses on diagrammatic visual languages, as found in software engineering, and their computer implementations. Implementation means the development of processors to automatically analyze diagrams and the development of graphical editors for constructing the...

The emerging interests in spatial pattern mining lead to the demand for a flexible spatial pattern mining language, on which easy to use and understand visual pattern language could be built. This motivates us to define a pattern mining language called CSPML to allow users to specify complex spatial patterns they are interested in mining from spatial datasets. We describe our proposed pattern m...

This paper presents the Visual Contract Language (VCL). VCL is a new visual language for abstract software specification at level of requirements. It is designed to be visual, formal and modular, and aims at expressing precisely structural and behavioural properties of software systems. VCL takes an approach to behavioral modelling based on design by contract that emphasises modularity.

We extend an existing visual language for requirements modelling to model the requirements of cloud services. To achieve this we demonstrate how candidate cloud services can be identified from existing visual requirements models. We further extend the meta-model of the visual language to include cloud requirements in order to migrate our candidate service to a cloud provider.