Spatio-temporal representation for multi-dimensional occlusion relation
Occlusion relation is the topological relation between the images of two bodies from a viewpoint. Qualitative representation of occlusion relation has been investigated in qualitative spatial reasoning. This research is important for computer vision and robot navigation. The previous models such as LOS and ROC-20 are all based on RCC (the famous topological theory). But those models couldn't support abstract objects such as point and line which are very common in real applications. To deal with this, multi-dimensional spatial occlusion relation (MSO) is put forward. The foundation of MSO is MRCC which is the multi-dimensional extension of RCC. So MSO is suitable for both real and abstract objects. The conception neighborhood and composition of MSO is given. Finally MSO is extended to spatio-temporal relation by adding time feature. MSO is an appropriate frame to express spatio-temporal knowledge.