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CVPR
2012
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection
We introduce a saliency model based on two key ideas. The first one is considering local and global image patch rarities as two complementary processes. The second one is based o...
Ali Borji, Laurent Itti
HPDC
2007
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
An architecture for virtual organization (VO)-based effective peering of content delivery networks
The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate, resulting in “islands” of CDNs. Finding ways for dist...
Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg, Kris Buben...
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
SMA
2005
ACM
239views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2005»
16 years 3 days ago
Bender: a virtual ribbon for deforming 3D shapes in biomedical and styling applications
In contrast to machined mechanical parts, the 3D shapes encountered in biomedical or styling applications contain many tubular parts, protrusions, engravings, embossings, folds, a...
Ignacio Llamas, Alexander Powell, Jarek Rossignac,...
OTM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
The Constellation Query Language
Collaboration in modeling is essential to success, but ORM diagrams intimidate many business people, and most would never install an ORM modeling tool on their computers. The Const...
Clifford Heath