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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A differential notion of place for local search
For extracting the characteristics a specific geographic entity, and notably a place, we propose to use dynamic Extreme Tagging Systems in combination with the classic approach of...
Vlad Tanasescu, John Domingue
GIR
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Identifying and grounding descriptions of places
In this paper we test the hypothesis Given a piece of text describing an object or concept our combined disambiguation method can disambiguate whether it is a place and ground it ...
Simon E. Overell, Stefan M. Rüger
TVCG
2010
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15 years 14 days ago
Representation-Independent In-Place Magnification with Sigma Lenses
Focus+context interaction techniques based on the metaphor of lenses are used to navigate and interact with objects in large information spaces. They provide in-place magnification...
Emmanuel Pietriga, Olivier Bau, Caroline Appert
ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Avoiding confusing features in place recognition
We seek to recognize the place depicted in a query image using a database of “street side” images annotated with geolocation information. This is a challenging task due to chan...
JUCS
2006
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15 years 5 months ago
Health Monitoring and Assistance to Support Aging in Place
: To many people, home is a sanctuary. For those people who need special medical care, they may need to be pulled out of their home to meet their medical needs. As the population a...
Diane J. Cook