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CGF
1998
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A Light Hierarchy for Fast Rendering of Scenes with Many Lights
We introduce a new data structure in the form of a light hierarchy for efficiently ray-tracing scenes with many light sources. An octree is constructed with the point light sourc...
Eric Paquette, Pierre Poulin, George Drettakis
ACTAC
1999
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Limiting Distortion of a Wavelet Image Codec
A new image compression algorithm, Distortion Limited Wavelet Image Codec (DLWIC), is introduced. The codec is designed to be simple to implement, fast and have modest requirement...
Joonas Lehtinen
IJCV
2002
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Probabilistic Tracking with Exemplars in a Metric Space
Abstract. A new, exemplar-based, probabilistic paradigm for visual tracking is presented. Probabilistic mechanisms are attractive because they handle fusion of information, especia...
Kentaro Toyama, Andrew Blake
AI
1999
Springer
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Topological Inference of Teleology: Deriving Function from Structure via Evidential Reasoning
Reasoning about the physical world is a central human cognitive activity. One aspect of such reasoning is the inference of function from the structure of the artifacts one encount...
John O. Everett
CN
1999
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Results and Challenges in Web Search Evaluation
A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...