We report about some preliminary issues from the DFG project “Description Logics and Spatial Reasoning” (“DLS”, DFG Grant NE 279/8-1), one of whose goals is to develop a p...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to do this is to build specialized applicatio...
We present a refinement and a coarsening (also simplification or decimation) algorithm for the adaptive representation of bivariate functions. The algorithms have proved to be eff...
Linguistic access to uncertain quantitative knowledge about physical properties is provided by dimensional adjectives, e.g. long-short in the spatial and temporal senses, near-far...
Action recognition is an important and challenging topic in computer vision, with many important applications including video surveillance, automated cinematography and understand...