Towards a Semantic Spatial Model for Pedestrian Indoor Navigation Export

@incollection{citeulike:2522844, abstract = {This paper presents a graph-based spatial model which can serve as a reference for guiding pedestrians inside buildings. We describe a systematic approach to construct the model from geometric data. In excess of the well-known topological relations, the model accounts for two important aspects of pedestrian navigation: firstly, visibility within spatial areas and, secondly, generating route descriptions. An algorithm is proposed which partitions spatial regions according to visibility criteria. It can handle simple polygons as encountered in floor plans. The model is structured hierarchically - each of its elements corresponds to a certain domain concept ('room', 'door', 'floor' etc.) and can be annotated with meta information. This is useful for applications in which such information have to be evaluated.}, author = {Stoffel, Edgar-Philipp and Lorenz, Bernhard and Ohlbach, Hans}, citeulike-article-id = {2522844}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76292-8_39}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-76292-8_39}, journal = {Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Foundations and Applications}, keywords = {model, pvc, semantic, spatial}, pages = {328--337}, posted-at = {2008-03-12 22:28:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Towards a Semantic Spatial Model for Pedestrian Indoor Navigation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76292-8_39}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2522844 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2522844 N2 - This paper presents a graph-based spatial model which can serve as a reference for guiding pedestrians inside buildings. We describe a systematic approach to construct the model from geometric data. In excess of the well-known topological relations, the model accounts for two important aspects of pedestrian navigation: firstly, visibility within spatial areas and, secondly, generating route descriptions. An algorithm is proposed which partitions spatial regions according to visibility criteria. It can handle simple polygons as encountered in floor plans. The model is structured hierarchically - each of its elements corresponds to a certain domain concept (‘room’, ‘door’, ‘floor’ etc.) and can be annotated with meta information. This is useful for applications in which such information have to be evaluated. JF - Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Foundations and Applications EP - 337 TI - Towards a Semantic Spatial Model for Pedestrian Indoor Navigation SP - 328 KW - model KW - pvc KW - semantic KW - spatial AU - Stoffel, Edgar-Philipp AU - Lorenz, Bernhard AU - Ohlbach, Hans PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76292-8_39 ER -