AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium

Cognitive Shape Processing

Stanford University, March 22-24, 2010

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Program

Monday, 22 March 2010

09:00    welcome: Sven Bertel

             participants introduce themselves

             Stephen Grossberg: An emerging neural model of 3D shape, spatial attention, eye movement search, and object category learning (invited talk)

             chair and introduction of Stephen Grossberg: Christian Freksa

10:30    coffee break (all coffee breaks will be held in the Citrus Courtyard)

11:00    Christian Freksa: On the relationship between shape, spatial objects, and spatial relations

Andrew Lovett & Kenneth Forbus: Shape is like space: modeling shape representation as a set of qualitative spatial relations

             Sibel Tari, Bernhard Burgeth, & Ilker Tari: Components of the shape revisited

             chair: Sven Bertel

12:30    lunch

02:00    Sven Bertel & Thomas Barkowsky:
Is shape special? Ð Scalable mental representation structures in visuo-spatial reasoning

Peter Khooshabeh & Mary Hegarty:
Representation of shape during mental rotation

Andrew T. Stull, Mary Hegarty, & Richard E. Mayer:
Anatomy learning with virtual objects

             chair: Madeleine Keehner

assignment to discussion topics and groups

03:30    coffee break

04:00    breakout discussions (2 groups)

             report back for group discussion

05:30    end of sessions

06:00    AAAI opening reception in the Oak Lounge at Tresidder Union

 


Tuesday, 23 March 2010

09:00    Philip J. Kellman: Visual perception of contours and objects: segmentation, grouping, and shape (invited talk)

             chair and introduction of Phil Kellman: Sven Bertel

10:30    coffee break

11:00    Lisanne van Weelden, Reinier Cozijn, Alfons Maes, & Joost Schilperoord:
Perceptual similarity in visual metaphor processing

Nina Gaissert, Kirstin Ulrichs, & Christian Wallraven:
Visual and haptic perceptual spaces: from parametrically-defined to natural objects

Madeleine Keehner & Richard K. Lowe:
Seeing with the hands and with the eyes: the contributions of haptic cues to anatomical shape recognition in surgery

             chair: Andrew Lovett

12:30    lunch

02:00    wrap-up of Stephen Grossberg's talk & general discussion, chair: Sven Bertel

03:30    coffee break

04:00    William Regli & Joseph Kopena:
Challenges in semantics for computer-aided designs: a position paper

Sylvan Rudduck & Mary-Anne Williams:
Conceptual ternary diagrams for shape perception: a preliminary approach

Thomas Wagner: Egocentric shape representation of landmark configurations based on static and dynamic ordering information

             chair: Gabriela Goldschmidt

05:30    end of session

06:00    plenary session at Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building (until 07:15, speaker for our symposium: Madeleine Keehner)

08:30    joint dinner in downtown Palo Alto at 'Evvio' (420 Emmerson St, half a block west of University Avenue)

 


Wednesday, 24 March 2010

09:00    assignment to discussion topics and groups

breakout discussions (2 groups)

             report back for group discussion

10:30    coffee break

11:00    general discussion, chair: Tony Cohn

12:30    end of symposium

last updated: 22 April 2010 -- Sven Bertel