there is always a meaning concealed behind functional aspects of any physical structure. this covert meaning is tranfered to the user or observer of the phenomena and forms his perception. studying the perception of the visitors towards the visited structure is considered useful in several research fields. in tourism context, visitors’ perception towards visited destination is obliged as a sign...

This article brings together tiles of 16th century Persian architecture and 21st century digital tiles of moving image to explore new potentials beyond the perceived image. As minimal parts of a bigger image, they both appear still and motionless. However, Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadrā Shirazi’s (1571-1640) theory of ‘substantial motion’ (al-harakat a...

The brain constructs internal representations of the external world, and one essential element of efforts to understand neural processing focuses on understanding the nature of these internal representations. This chapter examines the currently available experimental evidence concerning the physiological and cognitive mechanisms of space representation in humans and in animals, and in particula...

Effective techniques for organizing and visualizing large image collections are in growing demand as visual search gets increasingly popular. Targeting an online astronomy archive with thousands of images, we present our solution for image search and clustering based on the evaluation of image similarity using both visual and textual information. To lay out images, we introduce iMap, a treemap-...

This paper describes and evaluates an image-based place recognition method for mobile robots based on matching image signatures. The method represents an image as a set of arrays of coarse-scale measurements over subimages. We describe several diierent measurement functions we devised, and show how they can be used conjunctively to improve recognition accuracy. Experimental results show that th...

The wavelet transform appears to be an efficient tool for image compression. Many works propose an implementation of the pyramid a1gorithm with some improvement to reduce its treatment time or to increase its performances. However, the pyramid a1gorithm remains silicon area costly, essentially because of its memory needs, and depending on the size of filters used. This paper proposes a new impl...