We consider queries which originate from a mobile unit and whose result depends on the location of the user who initiates the query. Example of such a query is How many people are ...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Bharat K. Bhargava, Evaggelia...
In this paper, we propose an efficient text detection method based on the Laplacian operator. The maximum gradient difference value is computed for each pixel in the Laplacian-fil...
Trung Quy Phan, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Chew Li...
Abstract. Continuous monitoring of spatial queries has received significant research attention in the past few years. In this paper, we propose two efficient algorithms for the con...
Mahady Hasan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wenyu Qu, Xue...
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
Background: Comparative genomics is the analysis and comparison of genomes from different species. This area of research is driven by the large number of sequenced genomes and hea...
Mohamed Ibrahim Abouelhoda, Stefan Kurtz, Enno Ohl...