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SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
1998
Springer
This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
TIP
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
—We present a method of estimating the shape of a weakly scattering binary convex polygonal object from the backscattered field. We use the concept scattering centers where it h...
SIBGRAPI
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
A good shape descriptor is necessary for automatically identifying landmarks on boundaries. Our method of boundary shape description is based on the notion of cscale, which is a n...
ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. We present a new technique to recover the shape of an unknown smooth specular surface from a single image. A calibrated camera faces a specular surface reflecting a calib...
SGP
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
In this paper, we initiate a study of shape description and classification via the application of persistent homology to tangential constructions on geometric objects. Our techniq...