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CGF
2008
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Caustic Forecasting: Unbiased Estimation of Caustic Lighting for Global Illumination
We present an unbiased method for generating caustic lighting using importance sampled Path Tracing with Caustic Forecasting. Our technique is part of a straightforward rendering ...
B. C. Budge, John C. Anderson, Kenneth I. Joy
VLDB
2009
ACM
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Sampling-based estimators for subset-based queries
We consider the problem of using sampling to estimate the result of an aggregation operation over a subset-based SQL query, where a subquery is correlated to an outer query by a NO...
Shantanu Joshi, Christopher M. Jermaine
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ICCV
1999
IEEE
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Illumination Distribution from Brightness in Shadows: Adaptive Estimation of Illumination Distribution with Unknown Reflectance
This paper describes a new method for estimating the illumination distribution of a real scene from a radiance distribution inside shadows cast by an object in the scene. First, t...
Imari Sato, Yoichi Sato, Katsushi Ikeuchi
WWW
2005
ACM
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A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
IJKESDP
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
Rule acquisition for cognitive agents by using estimation of distribution algorithms
Cognitive Agents must be able to decide their actions based on their recognized states. In general, learning mechanisms are equipped for such agents in order to realize intellgent ...
Tokue Nishimura, Hisashi Handa