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TOG
2012
280views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
13 years 8 days ago
What makes Paris look like Paris?
Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain g...
Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef ...
GEOS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning
Abstract. Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narr...
Chin-Lung Chang, Yi-Hong Chang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, ...
DSRT
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Distributed Interaction in Virtual Spaces
Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative w...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson
SODA
1997
ACM
119views Algorithms» more  SODA 1997»
14 years 11 months ago
Map Labeling and Its Generalizations
Map labeling is of fundamental importance in cartography and geographical information systems and is one of the areas targeted for research by the ACM Computational Geometry Impac...
Srinivas Doddi, Madhav V. Marathe, Andy Mirzaian, ...
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
110views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Visual content layer for scalable object recognition in urban image databases
Rich online map interaction represents a useful tool to get multimedia information related to physical places. With this type of systems, users can automatically compute the optim...
Xavier Baró, Sergio Escalera, Petia Radeva,...