Extraction and combination of multidimensional point-of-interest features for the classification of urban place types

The digital representations of physical places, known as Points-Of-Interest (POIs), have been the core element of various studies and platforms such as online mapping services (e.g. Google Maps) and location based social networks (e.g. Foursquare). The use of POIs as proxies of the real-world-places facilitates the study of places, urban...

Navigation to a human in motion by using points of interest

Navigating to a human target is underexposed in the current literature. However, there are cases where it is necessary to get to the moving target as fast as possible. This thesis supports navigation of a person to another person in motion that they lost or need. In this way, children, elderly, family, coworkers and friends could be found more...