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Spatial Cognition VIII

International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2012, Kloster Seeon, Germany, August 31 -- September 3, 2012, Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7463)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): Spatial Cognition: German Conference on Spatial Cognition

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Predicting What Lies Ahead in the Topology of Indoor Environments

    • Alper Aydemir, Erik Järleberg, Samuel Prentice, Patric Jensfelt
    Pages 1-16
  3. Object Categorization in Clutter Using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-Graph Descriptors

    • Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Florian Seidel, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Michael Beetz
    Pages 17-33
  4. Efficient Object Categorization with the Surface-Approximation Polynomials Descriptor

    • Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer, Georg Arbeiter, Alexander Verl
    Pages 34-53
  5. Online Semantic Mapping of Urban Environments

    • Nikos Mitsou, Roderick de Nijs, David Lenz, Johannes Frimberger, Dirk Wollherr, Kolja Kühnlenz et al.
    Pages 54-73
  6. SURE: Surface Entropy for Distinctive 3D Features

    • Torsten Fiolka, Jörg Stückler, Dominik A. Klein, Dirk Schulz, Sven Behnke
    Pages 74-93
  7. Towards Geometric Mapping for Semi-autonomous Mobile Robots

    • Georg Arbeiter, Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer, Martin Hägele, Alexander Verl
    Pages 114-127
  8. Tutorial on Quick and Easy Model Fitting Using the SLoM Framework

    • Christoph Hertzberg, René Wagner, Udo Frese
    Pages 128-142
  9. Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning

    • Linsey A. Smith, Dedre Gentner
    Pages 196-209
  10. Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs

    • Sander Lestrade, Nina Reshöft
    Pages 230-241
  11. Assessing Similarities of Qualitative Spatio-temporal Relations

    • Alexander Klippel, Jinlong Yang, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Frank Dylla, Rui Li
    Pages 242-261
  12. Linguistic Principles for Spatial Relational Reasoning

    • Thora Tenbrink, Marco Ragni
    Pages 279-298

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, SC 2012, held in Kloster Seeon, Germany, in August/September 2012. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The conference deals with spatial cognition, biological inspired systems, spatial learning, communication, robotics, and perception.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

    Cyrill Stachniss

  • Cognitive Neuroinformatics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Kerstin Schill

  • Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    David Uttal

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