Perception of Picture Interference and its Application to Expert System for Shipboard Equipment Layout (ESSEL)

Abstract

A methodology how to deal with pictures or to perceive their interference in computer systems is discussed. The proposed method can recognize not only various situations between two pictures, but also more spatial information between them. These functions to manipulate pictures are useful for some applications such as an intelligent CAD system and any computer systems in which pictures must be handled or perceived. The method is applied to an automatic layout design tool named Expert System for Shipboard Equipment Layout (ESSEL)