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MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting Features from Tactile Maps
Tactile imaging is a newly developed mechanical sensing technology for documenting the properties of hard lumps contained in soft tissue. An examiner strokes a scan head across tis...
Parris S. Wellman, Robert D. Howe
SAB
2010
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Tactile Discrimination Using Template Classifiers: Towards a Model of Feature Extraction in Mammalian Vibrissal Systems
Abstract. Rats and other whiskered mammals are capable of making sophisticated sensory discriminations using tactile signals from their facial whiskers (vibrissae). As part of a pr...
Mathew H. Evans, Charles W. Fox, Martin J. Pearson...
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic production of tactile graphics from scalable vector graphics
This paper presents a method to convert vector graphics into tactile representations for the blind. Generating tactile pictures from vector graphics is an important effort to bri...
Stephen E. Krufka, Kenneth E. Barner
GIS
2009
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Classification of raster maps for automatic feature extraction
Raster maps are widely available and contain useful geographic features such as labels and road lines. To extract the geographic features, most research work relies on a manual st...
Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock