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NIPS
1997
15 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Model of Surface Perception
Image intensity variations can result from several different object surface effects, including shading from 3-dimensional relief of the object, or paint on the surface itself. An ...
William T. Freeman, Paul A. Viola
IIE
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Turtle's Navigation and Manipulation of Geometrical Figures Constructed by Variable Processes in a 3d Simulated Space
Abstract. Issues related to 3d turtle’s navigation and geometrical figures’ manipulation in the simulated 3d space of a newly developed computational environment, MaLT, are re...
Chronis Kynigos, Maria Latsi
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Teaching introductory Java through LEGO MINDSTORMS models
Innovative teachers are continually looking for creative ideas, both to get their ideas across and to hold the interest of their students. One of the latest trends is the use of L...
David J. Barnes
HPCC
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Achieving Performance and Availability Guarantees with Spot Instances
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
Michele Mazzucco, Marlon Dumas
ICCV
2009
IEEE
16 years 11 months ago
Spatio-Temporal Relationship Match: Video Structure Comparison for Recognition of Complex Human Activities
Human activity recognition is a challenging task, especially when its background is unknown or changing, and when scale or illumination differs in each video. Approaches utilizi...
M. S. Ryoo1; J. K. Aggarwal