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FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
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DPD
1998
14 years 11 months ago
1998
To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
107
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ICCV
1999
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper describes a new method for estimating the illumination distribution of a real scene from a radiance distribution inside shadows cast by an object in the scene. First, t...
100
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PVLDB
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
Many search engines and other web applications suggest auto-completions as the user types in a query. The suggestions are generated from hidden underlying databases, such as query...
CGF
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
We present a new method for efficiently simulating the scattering of light within participating media. Using a theoretical reformulation of volumetric photon mapping, we develop a...