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SMI
2003
IEEE
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Skeleton Extraction of 3D Objects with Radial Basis Functions
Skeleton is a lower dimensional shape description of an object. The requirements of a skeleton differ with applications. For example, object recognition requires skeletons with pr...
Wan-Chun Ma, Fu-Che Wu, Ming Ouhyoung
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ARITH
1993
IEEE
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An accurate LNS arithmetic unit using interleaved memory function interpolator
This paper describes a logarithmic number system (LNS) arithmetic unit using a new methodfor polynomial interpolation in hardware. The use of an interleaved memory reduces storage...
David M. Lewis
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
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Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
NIPS
2007
15 years 7 months ago
Consistent Minimization of Clustering Objective Functions
Clustering is often formulated as a discrete optimization problem. The objective is to find, among all partitions of the data set, the best one according to some quality measure....
Ulrike von Luxburg, Sébastien Bubeck, Stefa...
FLAIRS
2004
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Multimodal Function Optimization Using Local Ruggedness Information
In multimodal function optimization, niching techniques create diversification within the population, thus encouraging heterogeneous convergence. The key to the effective diversif...
Jian Zhang 0007, Xiaohui Yuan, Bill P. Buckles