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SIGGRAPH
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Recovering Photometric Properties of Architectural Scenes from Photographs
In this paper, we present a new approach to producing photorealistic computer renderings of real architectural scenes under novel lighting conditions, such as at different times o...
Yizhou Yu, Jitendra Malik
ICML
1997
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Robot Learning From Demonstration
The goal of robot learning from demonstration is to have a robot learn from watching a demonstration of the task to be performed. In our approach to learning from demonstration th...
Christopher G. Atkeson, Stefan Schaal
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Predicting reflectance functions from complex surfaces
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
PPOPP
2005
ACM
16 years 3 hour ago
Fault tolerant high performance computing by a coding approach
As the number of processors in today’s high performance computers continues to grow, the mean-time-to-failure of these computers are becoming significantly shorter than the exe...
Zizhong Chen, Graham E. Fagg, Edgar Gabriel, Julie...
WEBI
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Opportunities from Open Source Search
Internet search has a strong business model that permits a free service to users, so it is difficult to see why, if at all, there should be open source offerings as well. This pa...
Wray L. Buntine, Karl Aberer, Ivana Podnar, Martin...