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CVIU
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Topology cuts: A novel min-cut/max-flow algorithm for topology preserving segmentation in N-D images
Topology is an important prior in many image segmentation tasks. In this paper, we design and implement a novel graph-based min-cut/max-flow algorithm that incorporates topology p...
Yun Zeng, Dimitris Samaras, Wei Chen, Qunsheng Pen...
TOG
2008
102views more  TOG 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
A meshless hierarchical representation for light transport
We introduce a meshless hierarchical representation for solving light transport problems. Precomputed radiance transfer (PRT) and finite elements require a discrete representation...
Jaakko Lehtinen, Matthias Zwicker, Emmanuel Turqui...
VLDB
2007
ACM
166views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Supporting Time-Constrained SQL Queries in Oracle
The growing nature of databases, and the flexibility inherent in the SQL query language that allows arbitrarily complex formulations, can result in queries that take inordinate am...
Ying Hu, Seema Sundara, Jagannathan Srinivasan
STOC
2009
ACM
145views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy
The price of anarchy (POA) is a worst-case measure of the inefficiency of selfish behavior, defined as the ratio of the objective function value of a worst Nash equilibrium of a g...
Tim Roughgarden
GLVLSI
2009
IEEE
142views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Hardware-accelerated gradient noise for graphics
A synthetic noise function is a key component of most computer graphics rendering systems. This pseudo-random noise function is used to create a wide variety of natural looking te...
Josef B. Spjut, Andrew E. Kensler, Erik Brunvand