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CGVR
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Interpolation-Friendly Soft Shadow Maps
We present Penumbra Limit Maps, a technique for rendering soft shadows from a modified shadow map. The shadow representation used by our method has excellent interpolation propert...
Orion Sky Lawlor
ICPR
2004
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Action and Simultaneous Multiple-Person Identification Using Cubic Higher-Order Local Auto-Correlation
We propose a new method ? Cubic Higher-order Local Auto-Correlation (CHLAC) ? to address three-way data analysis. This method is a natural extension of Higherorder Local Auto-Corr...
Nobuyuki Otsu, Takumi Kobayashi
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Retrieving answers from frequently asked questions pages on the web
We address the task of answering natural language questions by using the large number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages available on the web. The task involves three steps...
Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Using persistent homology to recover spatial information from encounter traces
In order to better understand human and animal mobility and its potential effects on Mobile Ad-Hoc networks and Delay-Tolerant Networks, many researchers have conducted experiment...
Brenton D. Walker
MICCAI
1998
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Segmentation and Measurement of the Cortex from 3D MR Images
The cortex is the outermost thin layer of gray matter in the brain; geometric measurement of the cortex helps in understanding brain anatomy and function. In the quantitative analy...
Xiaolan Zeng, Lawrence H. Staib, Robert T. Schultz...