The paper presents a single-pass, view-dependent method to solve the general rendering equation, using a combined finite element and random walk approach. Applying finite element t...
Because of the growing use of multimedia content over Internet, Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has recently received a lot of interest. While accurate search techniques base...
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
OLAP queries are typically heavy-weight and ad-hoc thus requiring high storage capacity and processing power. In this paper, we address this problem using a database cluster which...
Alexandre A. B. Lima, Marta Mattoso, Patrick Valdu...
Inter-object occlusion is inherent to 3D environments and is one of the challenges of using 3D instead of 2D computer graphics for visualization. Based on an analysis of this effe...