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TVCG
2012
205views Hardware» more  TVCG 2012»
13 years 1 days ago
A Deformable Surface Model for Real-Time Water Drop Animation
—A water drop behaves differently from a large water body because of its strong viscosity and surface tension under the small scale. Surface tension causes the motion of a water ...
Yizhong Zhang, Huamin Wang, Shuai Wang, Yiying Ton...
IAT
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Agents along the Virtuality Continuum
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
Elisabeth André
MVA
1998
149views Computer Vision» more  MVA 1998»
14 years 11 months ago
Auto-Calibration of a Rotating and Zooming Camera
We propose a method to calibrate a rotating and zooming camera without 3D pattern, where the internal parameters change frame by frame. First, we show that the calibration is uniq...
Yongduek Seo, Ki-Sang Hong
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Updating a cracked database
A cracked database is a datastore continuously reorganized based on operations being executed. For each query, the data of interest is physically reclustered to speed-up future ac...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
FDG
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Exertion in networked games
Physical play familiar from sports activities is a favorite pastime across all cultures and has been attributed with many social, mental and physical health benefits. However, the...
Florian Mueller