Various problems in AI and multiagent systems can be tackled by finding the “most desirable” elements of a set given some binary relation. Examples can be found in areas as d...
Modularity and symmetry are two properties observed in almost every engineering and biological structure. The origin of these properties in nature is still unknown. Yet, as engine...
In this paper, we detail an anatomically inspired, physically based model of the human torso designed for the visual simulation of respiration using a mixed system of rigid and de...
Victor B. Zordan, Bhrigu Celly, Bill Yuan-chi Chiu...
This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for solving the matting problem, i.e. extracting a foreground element from a background image by estimating an opacity for each pixel ...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Rich...
Principal component analysis has proven to be useful for understanding geometric variability in populations of parameterized objects. The statistical framework is well understood ...