Low process predictability and, consequently, excessive rework are salient characteristics in many of today’s commonly-used software development life cycle processes, making it exceedingly difficult for development organizations to deliver quality software systems within economically and technically reasonable frames. This paper advances the argument that, as a solution to this problem, buildin...

3D building models are helpful for interpretation of the image contents. Registering them with the images a matching of image features and corresponding structures in the 3D model is required. In this work a method to register a building model and extracted features detected in IR image sequences taken by helicopter or UAVs is presented. Polygons of the building model are projected to the image...

The current study applies a relationship marketing approach to examine how universities use Twitter to communicate with their audiences. To explore social media strategies related to top-ranked universities’ Twitter activity, Kotler’s (1992) model of five levels of relationship building was refined and operationalized. A content analysis of 1375 tweets distributed by 22 universities was conduct...

Describing routes is an easy everyday task for people who know the environment well. However, strategies exist also for situations where only incomplete knowledge is available. We present a study eliciting verbalized route plans and thinkaloud data from novices and experts who were asked to find and describe routes in a complex building. The spatial descriptions were analyzed relating the level...

Effective separation of buildings from trees is a major challenge in image-based automatic building detection. This paper presents a three-step method for effective separation of buildings from trees using aerial imagery and LIDAR data. Firstly, it uses cues such as height to remove objects of low height such as bushes, and width to exclude trees with small horizontal coverage. The height thres...

Corner lines, line signatures related to building facades in SAR images, are commonly related to signal double reflections, either specular or diffuse. However, the scene properties building orientation, building shape, surface roughness often do not correspond to this expectation. This paper presents a 3D representative simulation case study, based on ray tracing and a detailed facade model, i...

The automated building detection in aerial images is a fundamental problem encountered in aerial and satellite images analysis. Recently, thanks to the advances in feature descriptions, Region-based CNN model (R-CNN) for object detection is receiving an increasing attention. Despite the excellent performance in object detection, it is problematic to directly leverage the features of R-CNN model...

Building generalization is one of the difficult operations in automated map generalization. It usually consists of two consecutive steps, i.e. dividing buildings into groups (also called building grouping) and performing generalization operations on building groups (also called generalization execution). This paper mainly focuses on the first step, which aims at proposing an approach to identif...

the present study was an attempt to assess religious orientation and life satisfaction as well as to find out relationship of religious orientation with life satisfaction among university students. university students were also compared on religious orientation and life satisfaction with respect to their gender. the data for the present study was obtained from university students [n=200 (males ...

The present study examined variables related to the quality of the therapeutic alliance in out-patients with schizophrenia. We expected recovery orientation and insight to be positively, and self-stigma to be negatively associated with a good therapeutic alliance. We expected these associations to be independent from age, clinical symptoms (i.e. positive and negative symptoms, depression), and ...