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...
There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
Social tags describe images from many aspects including the visual content observable from the images, the context and usage of images, user opinions and others. Not all tags are ...
We present data representations, distance measures and organizational structures for fast and efficient retrieval of similar shapes in image databases. Using the Hough Transform w...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Philip S. Yu, ...
Images are often compressed using JPEG or JPEG2000. Many retrieval systems operated in either uncompressed or compressed domains have been proposed. However, retrieving in multipl...