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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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  1. Cyrill Stachniss

    1. Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Kerstin Schill

    1. Cognitive Neuroinformatics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  3. David Uttal

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

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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.

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  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. Dense Map Inference with User-Defined Priors: From Priorlets to Scan Eigenvariations

    • Paloma de la Puente, Andrea Censi
    Pages 94-113

  8. Towards Geometric Mapping for Semi-autonomous Mobile Robots

    • Georg Arbeiter, Richard Bormann, Jan Fischer, Martin Hägele, Alexander Verl
    Pages 114-127

  9. Tutorial on Quick and Easy Model Fitting Using the SLoM Framework

    • Christoph Hertzberg, René Wagner, Udo Frese
    Pages 128-142

  10. Are Left-Right Hemisphere Errors in Point-to-Origin Tasks in VR Caused by Failure to Incorporate Heading Changes?

    • Bernhard E. Riecke
    Pages 143-162

  11. The Effects of Visual Granularity on Indoor Spatial Learning Assisted by Mobile 3D Information Displays

    • Nicholas A. Giudice, Hengshan Li
    Pages 163-172

  12. The Relationship between Coordination Skill and Mental Rotation Ability

    • Stefanie Pietsch, Petra Jansen
    Pages 173-181

  13. Collaborating in Spatial Tasks: Partners Adapt the Perspective of Their Descriptions, Coordination Strategies, and Memory Representations

    • Alexia Galati, Marios N. Avraamides
    Pages 182-195

  14. Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning

    • Linsey A. Smith, Dedre Gentner
    Pages 196-209

  15. Activity Effects on Path Integration Tasks for Children in Different Environments

    • Eva Neidhardt, Michael Popp
    Pages 210-219

  16. Influence of Rotational Axis and Gender-Stereotypical Nature of Rotation Stimuli on the Mental-Rotation Performance of Male and Female Fifth Graders

    • Sarah Neuburger, Vera Heuser, Petra Jansen, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl
    Pages 220-229

  17. Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs

    • Sander Lestrade, Nina Reshöft
    Pages 230-241

  18. Assessing Similarities of Qualitative Spatio-temporal Relations

    • Alexander Klippel, Jinlong Yang, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Frank Dylla, Rui Li
    Pages 242-261

  19. The Mental Representation Derived from Spatial Descriptions is North-Up Oriented: The Role of Visuo-spatial Abilities

    • Chiara Meneghetti, Francesca Pazzaglia, Rossana De Beni
    Pages 262-278

  20. Linguistic Principles for Spatial Relational Reasoning

    • Thora Tenbrink, Marco Ragni
    Pages 279-298
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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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