The Idea - Expression Dichotomy: Indianizing an International Debate

The idea-expression dichotomy was originally formulated to ensure that themanifestation of an idea is protected rather than the idea itself. Created with the intention ofstimulating creativity while at the same time ensuring that such creativity is protected, this concepthas come a long way since it was first formulated. However, in developing countries like India, thisconcept has not yet attained the levels of abstraction that is desirable and there has been littleapplication of this concept in the Indian context. However this position can be expected to changeand it is high time the Indian position on this concept is firmly established

Data driven estimation of building interior plans

This work investigates constructing plans of building interiors using learned building measurements. In particular, we address the problem of accurately estimating dimensions of rooms when measurements of the interior space have not been captured. Our approach focuses on learning the geometry, orientation and occurrence of rooms from a corpus of real-world building plan data to form a predictive model. The trained predictive model may then be queried to generate estimates of room dimensions and orientations. These estimates are then integrated with the overall building footprint and iteratively improved using a two-stage optimisation process to form complete interior plans. The approach is presented as a semi-automatic method for constructing plans which can cope with a limited set of known information and constructs likely representations of building plans through modelling of soft and hard constraints. We evaluate the method in the context of estimating residential house plans and demonstrate that predictions can effectively be used for constructing plans given limited prior knowledge about the types of rooms and their topology