This paper introduces a new process, environment matting, which captures not just a foreground object and its traditional opacity matte from a real-world scene, but also a descrip...
Douglas E. Zongker, Dawn M. Werner, Brian Curless,...
Assessing the reliability of a software system has always been an elusive target. A program may work very well for a number of years and this same program may suddenly become quit...
Much research has been done in fast communication on clusters and in protocols for supporting software shared memory across them. However, the end performance of applications that...
The effort in software process support has focused so far on modeling and enacting processes. A certain amount of work has been done, but little has reached a satisfactory level o...
In urban areas, city noises represent today a great problem. They are real nuisances for city-dwellers. Noises are caused by traffic, road works, factories, and also by people. So...