This paper is concerned with the e cient reconstruction of illumination from area luminaires. We outline a 2-pass scheme a lightpass, tracing ray bundles from the luminaires follow...
Stochastic simulations involve at least some random inputs. This introductory tutorial is meant to call attention to the need to model and generate such inputs in ways that may no...
162 views135 votes15 years 5 months ago CIKM 2008»
The skyline query, as an important operator in databases for multi-preference analysis and decision making, has received much attention recently due to its wide application backgr...
Transductive inference on graphs such as label propagation algorithms is receiving a lot of attention. In this paper, we address a label propagation problem on multiple networks a...
134 views106 votes15 years 4 months ago NIPS 2007»
Computational models of visual cortex, and in particular those based on sparse coding, have enjoyed much recent attention. Despite this currency, the question of how sparse or how...
Thisresearchfocusesona specific class of agentscalled "situated agents", which use minimalcommunication and rely mostlyon changesin the environmentas their cue for actio...
The proposed implementation is a monitor system able to train operators for on-line real time manufacturing control in order to analyze the performance of a production process. Th...
117 views115 votes15 years 4 months ago IJCAI 1989»
Speed alone is insufficient for real-time performance. We define real-time performance in terms of speed, responsiveness, timeliness, and graceful adaptation. We claim that all fo...
179 views129 votes15 years 4 months ago ICML 2010»
A learning problem that has only recently gained attention in the machine learning community is that of learning a classifier from group probabilities. It is a learning task that ...
76 views105 votes15 years 2 months ago IJAMC 2008»
The vision of a "3D Web" as a combination of massive online virtual environments and today's WWW currently attracts a lot of attention. While it provides a multitude...