Abstract. Image-Based Lighting (IBL) has become a very popular approach in computer graphics. In essence IBL is based on capturing the illumination conditions in a scene in an omni...
Tracking of humans in videos is important for many applications. A major source of difficulty in performing this task is due to inter-human or scene occlusion. We present an appr...
In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
For large scale automatic semantic video characterization, it is necessary to learn and model a large number of semantic concepts. These semantic concepts do not exist in isolatio...
Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...