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1998
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
General Constrained Deformations based on Generalized Metaballs
Space deformation is an important tool in computer animation and shape design. In this paper we propose a new local deformation model based on generalized metaballs. The user spec...
Xiaogang Jin, Youfu Li, Qunsheng Peng
CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Voronoi-Based Geospatial Query Processing with MapReduce
Geospatial queries (GQ) have been used in a wide variety of applications such as decision support systems, profile-based marketing, bioinformatics and GIS. Most of the existing qu...
Afsin Akdogan, Ugur Demiryurek, Farnoush Banaei Ka...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Surfpad: riding towards targets on a squeeze film effect
We present Surfpad, a pointing facilitation technique that does not decrease target distance or increase target width in either control or display space. This new technique operat...
Géry Casiez, Nicolas Roussel, Romuald Vanbe...
MVA
2007
196views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Fingerprint Verification Using Perturbation Method
This paper describes a new, powerful technique of fingerprint verification based on a perturbation method. The proposed method consists of four parts. The first part performs loca...
Satoshi Otaka, Yoshihisa Nishiyama, Takahiro Hatan...
JCDL
2009
ACM
130views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Whetting the appetite of scientists: producing summaries tailored to the citation context
The amount of scientific material available electronically is forever increasing. This makes reading the published literature, whether to stay up-to-date on a topic or to get up ...
Stephen Wan, Cécile Paris, Robert Dale