Home page for Amitabha Mukerjee

This page is now defunct - click Amit Mukerjee has visited the CS department as a visiting professor several times from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India. (E-mail: amit@iitk.ernet.in)

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On-Line Spatial Reasoning Resources

1. Spatial Reaosoning Resource List An annotated list of Spatial Reasoning Resources on the Internet, covering Qualitative, Quantitative and Cognitive models, Design, and GIS.

2. Spatial Reasoning Bibliography This bibliography, with 2800 annotated references, WWW searchable and covers related topics from AI, Geometric Modeling, and Robotics. You can also search five other spatially relevant bibliographies. Sorry... the search feature is currently disabled.

Research

1. Survey Paper on Spatial Reasoning: This draft paper looks at spatial reasoning from the AI perspective, where there appears to be an increasing shift to less precisely discretized models. A revised version can be found in Computational Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions Patrick Olivier and Klaus-Peter Gapp (Editors), Kluwer Academic Press 1998. Neat vs Scruffy: A survey of Computational Models for Spatial Expressions. [Description] [Postscript File] (143K, 33 pages).

2. IJCAI-95 Tutorial on ``Representation of Spatial Knowledge''.
   • Full Course Notes (1140K, 124p) Also available from flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de

3. Spatial Reasoning
   • Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
   • AI In Conceptual Design
     • Shape Abstraction and Multi- Resolution Sketching
   • Temporal Reasoning (Interval Algebra)
   • Qualitative Vision
     • Approximation Models for Dynamic Vision
4. Robotics
   • Conflicts in Behaviours : [Overview]
   • Robotic Self-Calibration
   • Neural Motor Control
5. Computer Integrated Manufacturing

6. Workshop on Conceptual Description of Images
   Affiliated Workshop along with ICCV-98, Bombay, January 2, 1998.

Other writings

• Creative work: essays / poems

• Mellow reports from IIT Kanpur

• Personal Information Page

• The river Ganga Home Page (Ganges)