Object-based representations of spatial images

Object based representations of image data enable new content-related functionalities while facilitating management of large image databases. Developing such representations for multi-date and multi-spectral images is one of the objectives of the second phase of the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project at UCSB. Image segmentation and image registration are two of the main issues that are to be addressed in creating localized image representations. We present in this paper some of the recent and current work by the ADL's image processing group on robust image segmentation, registration, and the use of image texture for content representation. Built upon these technologies are techniques for managing large repositories of data. A texture thesaurus assists in creating a semantic classification of image regions. An object-based representation is proposed to facilitate data storage, retrieval, analysis, and navigation.     

民航英语的文体与语言特征

为了清楚和得体地传达信息,需选用各种各样的文体交流.在航空英语中有许多文体及其语言特征,如飞行员与塔台之间的无线电通话、民航专业书籍、民航法律法规和操作手册.无线电通话属于口语文体,其他则属于书面文体.主要讨论这两类文体的语言特征,包括词法特征、句法特征和语义特征.通过讨论和分析,更好地理解语篇,避免发生歧义.     

航空广告语篇的语用分析

用个案研究的方法，从词汇和语篇结构两个层次对航空广告语篇进行了语用分析，揭示了语篇背后语言使用者在语言使用过程中的交际目的，以及这些目的对于构建语篇的影响，说明任何语言的使用过程都是一个动态的过程。     

Space,Language and Ontology: A Response to Davis

Abstract

Ernest Davis' article “Qualititative Spatial Reasoning in Interpreting Text and Narrative” discusses challenges that the interpretation of natural language appears to raise for the formalization of commonsense spatial reasoning. Davis finds these to be of “surprising logical complexity,” but also “erratic” in that they do not show a logical structuring of the problem space that could guide productive research. In this response I argue that much of the apparent lack of structure Davis laments is due to the very style of formal modeling he pursues. By augmenting logical considerations with substantial input from other disciplines and by adopting a heterogeneous and modular approach to formalization, I suggest that the problem space is by no means as ill-structured as Davis presents it.     

Learning to Reach to Locations Encoded from Imaging Displays

We examined the use of hand gestures while people solved spatial reasoning problem in which they had to infer motion from static diagrams (mental animation problems). In Experiment 1, participants were asked to think aloud while solving mental animation problems. They gestured on more than 90% of problems, and most gestures expressed information about the component motions that was not stated in words. Two further experiments examined whether the gestures functioned in the mechanical inference process, or whether they merely served functions of expressing or communicating the results of this process. In these experiments, we examined the effects of instructions to think aloud, restricting participants' hand motions, and secondary tasks on mental animation performance. Although participants who were instructed to think aloud gestured more than control groups, some gestures occurred even in control conditions. A concurrent spatial tapping task impaired performance on mechanical reasoning, whereas a simple tapping task and restricting hand motions did not. These results indicate that gestures are a natural way of expressing the results of mental animation processes and suggest that spatial working memory and premotor representations are involved in mental animation. They provide no direct evidence that gestures are functional in the thought process itself, but do not rule out a role for overt gestures in this type of spatial thinking.     

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning for Topological Map Learning

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the application of qualitative spatial reasoning methods for learning the topological map of an unknown environment. We develop a topological mapping framework that achieves robustness against ambiguity in the available information by tracking all possible graph hypotheses simultaneously. We then exploit spatial reasoning to reduce the space of possible hypotheses. The considered constraints are qualitative direction information and the assumption that the map is planar. We investigate the effects of absolute and relative direction information using two different spatial calculi and combine the approach with a real mapping system based on Voronoi graphs.     

BFBEST知识库生成系统设计技术

本文介绍了医学专家系统开发工具BFBEST的知识库生成系统设计技术。包括:(1)灵活友好的用户接口,(2)帮助用户避免输入知识时的语法和语义错误;(3)允许用户用领域规范化形式的知识与系统对话,输入知识;(4)具有事务薄记功能;(5)具有对知识库进行增、删、改的能力;(6)能对输入知识进行完整性和一致性的检查;(7)能将知识的机内表示复原成规范化的形式;(8)具有传授式的部分自动获取知识的功能。 BFBEST开发机是在IBM-PC机上用Turbo-Prolog语言实现的。它实用性强、智能化程度高,能用来快速生成各种高性能的医学专家系统知识库。     

基于时空显著性建模的空中飞行器跟踪方法

以复杂背景下空中飞行器的鲁棒视觉跟踪问题为研究背景，为解决现有跟踪方法目标表征模型不够精确，算法鲁棒性严重受到目标形变、宽高比变化、复杂背景等因素干扰的问题，提出了建模跟踪场景中独立物体的显著性特性，用于构建精确的目标模型。提出的显著性估计方法有别于传统的单帧检测方法，利用跟踪算法提供的背景先验知识以及多帧图像观测数据，使用时空联合的方式进行建模估计，其结果用来指导目标跟踪算法选取有效视觉特征，建立精确目标表征模型，减小背景区域对算法模型的干扰。实验表明，提出的方法为上述难点问题提供了有效的解决方案，对空中飞行器的跟踪精度与鲁棒性优于大多数最先进的主流方法，在其他类型的目标跟踪任务中也有十分优越的性能表现。     

航空发动机适航知识库构建方法研究

针对航空发动机适航领域知识重用、共享性差的问题,分析该领域知识特点;采用改进重采样和BRF方法进行知识获取;提出产生式规则、框架网络和面向对象的混合知识表示模型。与数据库软件的有效集成,创建智能知识库系统,实现了知识的查询和维护。     

GPS导航电文参数表示的测距误差分析

针对在GPS现代化进程中将出现的新的CNAV/CNAV-2导航电文格式,比较了目前发播的GPS NAV导航电文与新电文在数据表达方式上的差别.为了衡量不同的数据截断方式对于导航定位的影响,引用导航数据截断测距误差的概念进行分析.利用实际的导航数据对于两种电文结构进行了仿真生成、处理,比较星历/星钟参数截断带来的测距误差影响.结果表明:相比于NAV电文,CNAV/CNAV-2由于截断所造成的测距误差更小,NAV电文对截断误差更敏感.其中星历参数截断的测距误差改善可达厘米级,星钟参数截断的测距误差改善可达分米级.因此,在带宽有限的条件下应优先考虑提高星钟参数的表示精度.改进星钟参数的表达形式可望获得更高的精度提升.