Spatial Cognition VIII [electronic resource] : International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2012, Kloster Seeon, Germany, August 31 - September 3, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Cyrill Stachniss, Kerstin Schill, David Uttal.

Predicting What Lies Ahead in the Topology of Indoor Environments -- Object Categorization in Clutter Using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-Graph Descriptors -- Efficient Object Categorization with the Surface-Approximation Polynomials Descriptor -- Online Semantic Mapping of Urban Environments -- SURE: Surface Entropy for Distinctive 3D Features -- Dense Map Inference with User-Defined Priors: From Priorlets to Scan Eigenvariations -- Towards Geometric Mapping for Semi-autonomous Mobile Robots -- Tutorial on Quick and Easy Model Fitting Using the SLoM Framework -- Are Left-Right Hemisphere Errors in Point-to-Origin Tasks in VR Caused by Failure to Incorporate Heading Changes? -- The Effects of Visual Granularity on Indoor Spatial Learning Assisted by Mobile 3D Information Displays -- The Relationship between Coordination Skill and Mental Rotation Ability (Short Paper) -- Collaborating in Spatial Tasks: Partners Adapt the Perspective of Their Descriptions, Coordination Strategies, and Memory Representations -- Using Spatial Analogy to Facilitate Graph Learning -- Activity Effects on Path Integration Tasks for Children in Different Environments -- Influence of Rotational Axis and Gender-Stereotypical Nature of Rotation Stimuli on the Mental-Rotation Performance of Male and Female Fifth Graders (Short Paper) -- Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs -- Assessing Similarities of Qualitative Spatio-temporal Relations -- The Mental Representation Derived from Spatial Descriptions is North-Up Oriented: The Role of Visuo-spatial Abilities -- Linguistic Principles for Spatial Relational Reasoning -- Extended Verbal Assistance Facilitates Knowledge Acquisition of Virtual Tactile Maps -- A Linguistic Ontology of Mode: The Use of Locations in Spatial Language -- Detecting Events in Video Data Using a Formal Ontology of Motion Verbs -- Relevance in Spatial Navigation and Communication -- Mental Travel Primes Place Orientation in Spatial Recall -- Linking Cognitive and Computational Saliences in Route Information -- Representing Space: Exploring the Relationship between Gesturing and Geoscience Understanding in Children -- Integration of Spatial Relations across Perceptual Experiences -- An iPad App for Recording Movement Paths and Associated Spatial Behaviors -- Detection of Object Onset and Offset in Naturalistic Scenes -- Wayfinding in Real Cities: Experiments at Street Corners -- Relocating Multiple Objects during Spatial Belief Revision.