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The spatial relations “left-of” and “right-of” are important for distinguishing relative positions of objects within and with respect to elements of plane embedded networks such as networks of streets. We present a representation of the “left/right” relations that is suitable for use in sketch-to-metric map alignment. The new representation is based on a new family of qualitative spatial calculi called \(\mathcal {ULSTRA}\). Although left/right relations have already been formalized for line segments in the Dipole Relation Algebra (\(\mathcal {DRA}\)) family of qualitative spatial calculi, the distinctions made by those calculi are too strong for applications such as sketch-to-metric map alignment. We show in an empirical evaluation that performing sketch-to-metric map alignment with the new representation is more effective than using the original \(\mathcal {DRA}\) calculi.
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This work was partially funded by Universität Münster and the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant Grant SCHW 1372/7-1:SketchMapia.
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Chipofya, M., Schwering, A., Schultz, C., Harason, E., Jan, S. (2015). Left-Right Relations for Qualitative Representation and Alignment of Planar Spatial Networks. In: Pichardo Lagunas, O., Herrera Alcántara, O., Arroyo Figueroa, G. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications. MICAI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9414. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27101-9_33
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