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GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Recognizing cars in aerial imagery to improve orthophotos
The automatic creation of 3D models of urban spaces has become a very active field of research. This has been inspired by recent applications in the location-awareness on the Inte...
Franz Leberl, Horst Bischof, Helmut Grabner, Stefa...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Environmental scenario search and visualization
We have developed Environmental Scenario Search Engine (ESSE) for parallel data mining of a set of conditions inside distributed, very large databases from multiple environmental ...
Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Eric A. Kihn, Vassily Lyutsare...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic storage balancing in a distributed spatial index
We propose a general framework to index very large datasets of spatial data in a distributed system. Our proposal is built on the recently proposed Scalable Distributed Rtree (SD-...
Cédric du Mouza, Philippe Rigaux, Witold Li...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Robust location search from text queries
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to w...
Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Samar...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Linear feature extraction using perceptual grouping and graph-cuts
In this paper we present a novel system for the detection and extraction of road map information from high-resolution satellite imagery. Uniquely, the proposed system is an integr...
Charalambos Poullis, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using fuzzy clustering methods for delineating urban housing submarkets
This study investigates whether a fuzzy clustering method is of any practical value in delineating urban housing submarkets relative to clustering methods based on classic (or cri...
Sungsoon Hwang, Jean-Claude Thill
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Quality-driven geospatial data integration
Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...
Craig A. Knoblock, José Luis Ambite, Snehal...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-scale dual morse complexes for representing terrain morphology
We propose a new multi-scale terrain model, based on a hierarchical representation for the morphology of a terrain. The basis of our morphological model is a dual Morse decomposit...
Emanuele Danovaro, Leila De Floriani, Maria Vitali...
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Evacuation route planning: scalable heuristics
Given a transportation network, a vulnerable population, and a set of destinations, evacuation route planning identifies routes to minimize the time to evacuate the vulnerable pop...
Sangho Kim, Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting automatically inferred constraint-models for building identification in satellite imagery
The building identification (BID) problem is based on a process that uses publicly available information to automatically assign addresses to buildings in satellite imagery. In pr...
Martin Michalowski, Craig A. Knoblock, Kenneth M. ...