Light maps have long been a popular technique for visually rich real-time rendering in games. They typically contain smooth color gradients which current low bit rate texture comp...
: This paper presents the results of a user study conducted in the framework of the Interactive Image Retrieval task at CLEF 2009. The main goal of our research is to understand th...
Abstract--With the development of high-performance computing, I/O issues have become the bottleneck for many massively parallel applications. This paper investigates scalable paral...
Jing Fu, Ning Liu, Onkar Sahni, Kenneth E. Jansen,...
—In this paper, we introduce a novel method to solve shape alignment problems. We use gray-scale “images” to represent source shapes, and propose a novel two-component Gaussi...
Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads ...
David Meisner, Christopher M. Sadler, Luiz Andr&ea...