Recognition of urban structures is of interest in cartography and urban modelling. While a broad range of typologies of urban patterns have been published in the last century, relatively little research on the automated recognition of such structures exists. This work presents a sample-based approach for the recognition of five types of urban structures: (1) inner city areas, (2) industrial and commercial areas, (3) urban areas, (4) suburban areas and (5) rural areas. The classification approach is based only on the characterisation of building geometries with morphological measures derived from perceptual principles of Gestalt psychology. Thereby, size, shape and density of buildings are evaluated. After defining the research questions we develop the classification methodology and evaluate the approach with respect to several aspects. The experiments focus on the impact of different classification algorithms, correlations and contributions of measures, parameterisation of buffer-based indices, and mode filtering. In addition to that, we investigate the influence of scale and regional factors. The results show that the chosen approach is generally successful. It turns out that scale, algorithm parameterisation, and regional heterogeneity of building structures substantially influence the classification performance.
This paper presents a methodology developed for a study to evaluate the state of the art of automated map generalization in commercial software without applying any customization. The objectives of this study are to learn more about generic and specific requirements for automated map generalization, to show possibilities and limitations of commercial generalization software, and to identify areas for further research. The methodology had to consider all types of heterogeneity to guarantee independent testing and evaluation of available generalization solutions. The paper presents the two main steps of the methodology. The first step is the analysis of map requirements for automated generalization, which consisted of sourcing representative test cases, defining map specifications in generalization constraints, harmonizing constraints across the test cases, and analyzing the types of constraints that were defined. The second step of the methodology is the evaluation of generalized outputs. In this step, three evaluation methods were integrated to balance between human and machine evaluation and to expose possible inconsistencies. In the discussion the applied methodology is evaluated and areas for further research are identified.
This paper presents an ontology-driven approach for spatial database enrichment in support of map generalisation. Ontology-driven spatial database enrichment is a promising means to provide better transparency, flexibility and reusability in comparison to purely algorithmic approaches. Geographic concepts manifested in spatial patterns are formalised by means of ontologies that are used to trigger appropriate low level pattern recognition techniques. The paper focuses on inference in the presence of vagueness, which is common in definitions of spatial phenomena, and on the influence of the complexity of spatial measures on classification accuracy. The concept of the English terraced house serves as an example to demonstrate how geographic concepts can be modelled in an ontology for spatial database enrichment. Owing to their good integration into ontologies, and their ability to deal with vague definitions, supervised Bayesian inference is used for inferring complex concepts. The approach is validated in experiments using large vector datasets representing buildings of four different cities. We compar classification results obtained with the proposed approach to results produced by a more traditional ontology approach. The proposed approach performed considerably better in comparison to the traditional ontology approach. Besides clarifying the benefits of using ontologies in spatial database enrichment, our research demonstrates that Bayesian networks are a suitable method to integrate vague knowledge about conceptualisations in cartography and GIScience. AbstractThis paper presents an ontology-driven approach for spatial database enrichment in support of map generalisation. Ontology-driven spatial database enrichment is a promising means to provide better transparency, flexibility and reusability in comparison to purely algorithmic approaches. Geographic concepts manifested in spatial patterns are formalised by means of ontologies that are used to trigger appropriate low level pattern recognition techniques. The paper focuses on inference in the presence of vagueness, which is common in definitions of spatial phenomena, and on the influence of the complexity of spatial measures on classification accuracy. The concept of the English terraced house serves as an example to demonstrate how geographic concepts can be modelled in an ontology for spatial database enrichment. Owing to their good integration into ontologies, and their ability to deal with vague definitions, supervised Bayesian inference is used for inferring complex concepts. The approach is validated in experiments using large vector datasets representing buildings of four different cities. We compare classification results obtained with the proposed approach to results produced by a more traditional ontology approach. The proposed approach performed considerably better in comparison to the traditional ontology approach. Besides clarifying the benefits of using ontologies in spatial database enrichment, our research demonstrates that Bayesian ...
This paper describes an approach for the typification of buildings using a meshsimplification technique. The approach is adapted from the area of computer graphics and was originally developed for surface reconstruction and mesh simplification. The main goal was to develop an algorithm which creates fast and reproducible results. The typification procedure is modelled as a two-stage process, with the steps 'positioning' and 'representation'. While the positioning step determines the number and the position of the building objects based on Delaunay triangulation, the representation step is used to calculate the size and orientation for the replacement buildings. The results presented show the important influence of weights during positioning steps to control the object distribution. The proposed parameters are the number of objects as well as several object characteristics such as size, shape, orientation, and semantic. The approach has to be extended, if building alignments are also to be preserved. Further applications are imaginable, for instance the icon placement on dynamic maps.
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