This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Uncertainty pervades many domains in our lives. Current real-life applications, e.g., location tracking using GPS devices or cell phones, multimedia feature extraction, and sensor...
George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas
Recently, a cooperative paradigm for single-channel cognitive radio networks has been advocated, where primary users can leverage secondary users to relay their traffic. However, i...
Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are widely used for planning under uncertainty. In many applications, the huge size of the POMDP state space makes straightf...
Joni Pajarinen, Jaakko Peltonen, Ari Hottinen, Mik...
With the popularity of "bag of visual terms" representations of images, many text indexing techniques have been applied in large-scale image retrieval systems. However, ...
Xiao Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Heu...