In this paper we present a framework for interpreting locative expressions containing the prepositions in front of and behind. These prepositions have different semantics in the viewer-centred and intrinsic frames of reference (Vandeloise, 1991). We define a model of their semantics in each frame of reference. The basis of these models is a novel parameterized continuum function that creates a ...

The present study investigates the properties of the spatial updating in terms of intrinsic frames of reference. We hypothesize that the efficiency of dynamically updating object-to-object relations is based on two main factors, a relatively stable frame of reference provided by the orienting object (or object array), and the behavioral significance (salience) level of the target objects. Three...

MPEG-4 video has been designed as a standard for video and audio compression, content-based functionalities, scalability of texture, images and video, shape coding, robustness in error-prone environment, and face and body animation. With all these functionalities, however, MPEG-4 still has limitations in practical software development. In this paper, we developed the frame preprocessing for rea...

androgens have been shown to affect cognitive aspects of spatial memory. testosterone which is the most important androgen, plays a role in the organization of behavior during development. also, it has been shown that androgens cause sex related differences in learning and memory especially during neonatal period. in the current study, we assessed the effects of castration and testosterone enan...

We propose an automatic image registration algorithm for tracking moving objects in low-resolution videos. The algorithm uses SIFT keypoints to identify matching stationary points in the input frame and the base frame. The best set of matching stationary points is used to create a spatial transform to register the points on the moving objects in the input frame to the base frame. We examined tw...

We propose an evolving scheme to detect slow as well as fast moving objects in a video sequence. The proposed scheme employ both spatio-temporal and temporal segmentation to obtain the Video Object plane and hence detection. We propose a Compound Markov Random Field Model as the a priori image model that takes into account the spatial distribution of the current frame, temporal frames and the e...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we define and study the notion of zero elements in topoframes; a topoframe is a pair‎ ‎$(L‎, ‎tau)$‎, ‎abbreviated $L_{ tau}$‎, ‎consisting of a frame $L$ and a‎ ‎subframe $ tau $ all of whose elements are complemented elements in‎ ‎$L$‎. ‎We show that‎ ‎the $f$-ring $ mathcal{R}(L_tau)$‎, ‎the set of $tau$-real continuous functions on $L$‎, ‎is uniformly complete‎. ‎Also‎, ‎t...

We consider the problem of reconstructing frames from a video which has been compressed using the video compressive sensing (VCS) method. In VCS data, each frame comes from first subsampling the original video data in space and then averaging the subsampled sequence in time. This results in a large linear system of equations whose inversion is ill-posed. We introduce a convex regularizer to inv...

Reference frames are abstract representations that enable people to describe the location of objects using projective descriptions such as, above, below, left, and right. There have typically been three broad classes of reference frames identified in the literature: Those that are based upon the environment, those based upon an object and those that are egocentric. However, the exact details of...

Limb deformity can occur in the pediatric and adolescent populations from multiple etiologies: congenital, traumatic, posttraumatic sequelae, oncologic, and infection. Correcting these deformities is important for many reasons. Ilizarov popularized external fixation to accomplish this task. Taylor expanded on this by designing an external fixator in 1994 with 6 telescoping struts that can be se...