Book Announcements [Bookshelf]

Book Boundary Detection from Bookshelf Image Based on Model Fitting

Several systems based on bookshelf image analysis have been studied for automating bookshelf inspection in libraries and bookstores. In conventional systems, book boundaries are firstly detected for extracting each individual book by using some popular line detection technique, such as Hough transformation. Their detection accuracies, however, are sometimes insufficient. In this paper, we propo...

Book Boundary Detection and Title Extraction for Automatic Bookshelf Inspection

In this paper, we propose a novel technique to extract individual book titles from bookshelf images for automating bookshelf inspection in libraries and bookstores. This technique is composed of two steps. In the first step, the component, such as book boundary and spine, and the local slant angle are optimally estimated at each horizontal position of a bookshelf image, and then the individual ...

The Software Bookshelf

The Virtual Bookshelf Approach

The amount of information that people have to handle in their everyday life has increased and more is asked of their cognitive ability to select and assimilate the information that is important to them. One way to facilitate the cognitive work is to match information objects with each other and select/filter the ones that are relevant. To do this selection objects must be represented in such a ...

Bookshelf faulting in Nicaragua

Oblique subduction at a high rate of convergence along much of the Middle America Trench results in northwest-directed trench-parallel block motion. Accommodation of this motion along northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults has been postulated; however, in Nicaragua such faults are not well developed. We suggest instead that this motion is accommodated by bookshelf faulting that includes ...