—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Data sets in astronomy are growing to enormous sizes. Modern astronomical surveys provide not only image data but also catalogues of millions of objects (stars, galaxies), each ob...
Bilkis J. Ferdosi, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Scott Trager...
We present a nonparametric mode-seeking algorithm, called medoidshift, based on approximating the local gradient using a weighted estimate of medoids. Like meanshift, medoidshift ...
Organizing Web search results into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics facilitates browsing the collection and locating results of interest. In this paper, we propose a new hierar...
Rendering animations of scenes with deformable objects, camera motion, and complex illumination, including indirect lighting and arbitrary shading, is a long-standing challenge. P...