In this paper, we describe a biological motivated image representation in terms of local multi–modal primitives. These primitives are functional abstractions of hypercolumns in V1 [13]. The efficient and generic coding of visual information in terms of local symbolic descriptiones allows for a wide range of applications. For example, they have been used to investigate the multi–modal character ...

The paper shows how Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) can be adapted to take advantage of the extra resourcesensitivity provided by the Categorial Type Logic framework. The resulting reformulation, Multi-Modal CCG, supports lexically specified control over the applicability of combinatory rules, permitting a universal rule component and shedding the need for language-specific restrictions on...

This paper describes the integration of face and fingerprint data to improve the performance of a person identity verification system. In the conetxt of multi-modal person authentication, a set of experts give their opinion as a scalar number, called score, about the identity of an individual. A fusion module receiving as input the scores has to take a binary decision: accept or reject the clai...

In this paper we described the architecture and key issues of the service enabling layer of a multi-modal system Ozone which is oriented for new technologies and services for emerging nomadic societies. The main objective of the Ozone system is to offer a generic framework to enable consumer-oriented Ambient-Intelligence applications. As a large multi-modal system, Ozone consists of many functi...

We examine the computation of optimal paths, which consist of using public transportation, walking and taking a car. A challenge in itself is to determine concise and diverse sets of paths. We consider metropolises like New York, where a fast computation of the paths is difficult. We exemplify that multiple optimality criteria are necessary to obtain diverse sets of paths. This extends the set ...

This paper develops, through a simulation model, a deeper understanding of the relationship between transportation infrastructure strategy development frameworks and system performance. A strategy development framework for transportation can be characterized by the infrastructure ownership structures, cross-modal and cross-sectoral linkages, revenue sources, resource allocation decision-making ...

The visionary goal of developing an easy to use service robot implies several key tasks such as speech understanding, object recognition and scene understanding. Besides the more sensor-oriented capabilities such systems need extensive meta knowledge, e.g., about mental representations of spatial relations to match the view between man and machine. Only if all parts fit together an unrestricted...

In many applications involving multi-media data, the definition of similarity between items is integral to several key tasks, e.g., nearest-neighbor retrieval, classification, and recommendation. Data in such regimes typically exhibits multiple modalities, such as acoustic and visual content of video. Integrating such heterogeneous data to form a holistic similarity space is therefore a key cha...

Swarm construction involves a population of autonomous agents collaboratively organising material into useful persistent structures without recourse to central co-ordination or control. This approach to fabrication has significant potential within nanoscale domains, where explicit centralised control of building activity is prohibitive (e.g., Martel and Mohammadi, 2010). The ultimate value of s...