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CVPR
2012
IEEE
11 years 8 months ago
Geometric understanding of point clouds using Laplace-Beltrami operator
In this paper, we propose a general framework for approximating differential operator directly on point clouds and use it for geometric understanding on them. The discrete approxi...
Jian Liang, Rongjie Lai, Tsz Wai Wong, Hongkai Zha...
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 9 months ago
Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
— This paper describes two tools that aim to support decision making during the migration of IT systems to the cloud. The first is a modeling tool that produces cost estimates of...
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogae...
SG
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Sketch Based Volumetric Clouds
Like many natural phenomenon, clouds are often modeled using procedural methods, which may be difficult for an artist to control. In this paper, a freehand sketching system is prop...
Marc Stiver, Andrew Baker, Adam Runions, Faramarz ...
APSEC
2010
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Evaluating Cloud Platform Architecture with the CARE Framework
There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...
Liang Zhao, Anna Liu, Jacky Keung
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Semantically structured tag clouds: an empirical evaluation of clustered presentation approaches
Tag clouds have become a frequently used interaction technique in the web. Recently several approaches to present tag clouds with the tags semantically clustered have been propose...
Johann Schrammel, Michael Leitner, Manfred Tscheli...