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TOG
1998
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V-Clip: Fast and Robust Polyhedral Collision Detection
This paper presents the Voronoi-clip, or V-clip, collision detection algorithm for polyhedral objects specified by a boundary representation. V-clip tracks the closest pair of fe...
Brian Mirtich
VLDB
2002
ACM
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Generic Database Cost Models for Hierarchical Memory Systems
Accurate prediction of operator execution time is a prerequisite for database query optimization. Although extensively studied for conventional disk-based DBMSs, cost modeling in ...
Stefan Manegold, Peter A. Boncz, Martin L. Kersten
PAMI
2007
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A Thousand Words in a Scene
— This paper presents a novel approach for visual scene modeling and classification, investigating the combined use of text modeling methods and local invariant features. Our wo...
Pedro Quelhas, Florent Monay, Jean-Marc Odobez, Da...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
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An application adaptation layer for wireless sensor networks
In wireless sensor networks, poor performance or unexpected behavior may be experienced for several reasons, such as trivial deterioration of sensing hardware, unsatisfactory impl...
Marco Avvenuti, Paolo Corsini, Paolo Masci, Alessi...
PUC
2007
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Digital homes on wheels: designing for the unimagined home
Design for the digital home is often predicated on an ideal, imagined domestic space that is expansive, stable, occupied by a ‘‘busy’’ nuclear family, and does not always m...
Alexandra Zafiroglu, Michele Chang
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