One of the fundamental challenges in designing an image retrieval system is choosing a method by which the images that match a given query are presented to the searcher. Traditiona...
We describe a rendering system that converts a 3D meshed model into the stylized 2D filled-region vector-art commonly found in clip-art libraries. To properly define filled region...
Textual fields are commonly used in databases and applications to capture details that are difficult to formalize—comments, notes, and product descriptions. With the rise of t...
nd maps are powerful abstractions. Their combination, Hierarchical Graph Maps, provide effective tools to process a graph that is too large to fit on the screen. They provide hier...
Today’s data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sour...