This book is the result of a special workshop on Spatial Computing which brought together experts in computer vision, visualization, multimedia and geographic information systems to discuss common problems and applications. The common theme of the workshop was the need to integrate human perception and domain knowledge with developing representations and solutions to problems which necessarily involve the interpretation of sensed data. The overwhelming conclusion was that these different areas of spatial computing should be communicating more than is done at present and that such workshops and publications would help this process.Contents:Foreword (T Caelli et al.)Bayesian Paradigms in Image Processing (Z-Q Liu)Robot Navigation by Visual Dead-Reckoning: Inspiration From Insects (M V Srinivasan et al.)Assessing Feature Importance in the Context of Object Recognition (G A W West)Geometric Variations: Analysis, Optimisation and Control (B T Daniel et al.)Using Aspect Graphs to Control the Recovery and Tracking of Deformable Models (S J Dickinson & D Metaxas)The Role of Machine Learning in Building Image Interpretation Systems (T Caelli & W F Bischof)Recent Advances in Graph Matching (H Bunke & B T Messmer)Cooperative Spatial Reasoning for Image Understanding (T Matsuyama & T Wada)Human Understanding Limits in Visualization (A J Maeder)A Strategy and Architecture for the Visualisation of Complex Geographical Datasets (M Gahegan & D O'Bien)Visualizing Spatial Data: The Problem of Paradigms (P K Robertson)The Visitors Guide: A Simple Video Reuse Application (K Shearer et al.)Conceptual Representation for Multimedia Information (R W Smith et al.)Readership: Computer scientists.Key Features:It presents state-of-the-art techniques for assessing behind-the-border services reformIt brings a number of applications to various services sectors and countries together in one place (for the first time in a long while)It gives fresh insights into priorities for services reform, and how to assess them