We present a novel approach for adaptively grouping and subdividing hair using discrete level-of-detail (LOD) representations. The set of discrete LODs include hair strands, clust...
Sharing of common subtrees has been reported useful not only for XML compression but also for main-memory XML query processing. This method compresses subtrees only when they exhib...
Fast contact handling of soft articulated characters is a computationally challenging problem, in part due to complex interplay between skeletal and surface deformation. We presen...
Nico Galoppo, Miguel A. Otaduy, Serhat Tekin, Mark...
Shape is an important cue for generic object recognition but can be insufficient without other cues such as object appearance. We explore a number of ways in which the geometric a...
In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...