We present the Optimizing Control Variate (OCV) estimator, a new estimator for Monte Carlo rendering. Based upon a deterministic sampling framework, OCV allows multiple importance...
Shaohua Fan, Stephen Chenney, Bo Hu, Kam-Wah Tsui,...
Object-space silhouette extraction is an important problem in fields ranging from non-photorealistic computer graphics to medical robotics. We present an efficient silhouette extr...
Grammar induction, also known as grammar inference, is one of the most important research areas in the domain of natural language processing. Availability of large corpora has enc...
Creating controllable, responsive avatars is an important problem in computer games and virtual environments. Recently, large collections of motion capture data have been exploite...
Rural Internet kiosks in developing regions can cost-effectively provide communication and e-governance services to the poorest sections of society. A variety of technical and no...
Shimin Guo, Mohammad Hossein Falaki, Earl A. Olive...