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SIGGRAPH
1995
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
1995
ACM
Monte Carlo integration is a powerful technique for the evaluation of difficult integrals. Applications in rendering include distribution ray tracing, Monte Carlo path tracing, a...
CGF
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper presents a novel method that effectively combines both control variates and importance sampling in a sequential Monte Carlo context. The radiance estimates computed dur...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Despite its ubiquitous presence, very little is known about the odds of winning the simple card game of Klondike Solitaire. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the use o...
WSCG
2000
13 years 5 months ago
2000
Image filtering is often applied as a post-process to Monte Carlo generated pictures, in order to reduce noise. In this paper we present an algorithm based on density estimation t...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract— We present a unifying framework for continuous optimization and sampling. This framework is based on Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a search heuristic developed in the late...