This paper introduces a hierarchical approach for multicomponent tracking, where the object-to-be-tracked is modeled as a group of spatial related parts. We propose to use a robus...
Abstract Spatio-temporal extensions to data models have been an active area of research for a number of years. To date, much of this work has focused on the relational data model, ...
Tony Griffiths, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
Rapid development of information technology such as mobile terminals and GPS systems enabled information services that provide location-oriented information based on users’ posit...
A progressive spatial query retrieves spatial data based on previous queries (e.g., to fetch data in a more restricted area with higher resolution). A direct query, on the other si...