In contrast to sort-first, sort-last parallel rendering has the distinct advantage that the task division for parallel geometry processing and rasterization is simple, and can eas...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
Motivated by the ability of living cells to form into specific shapes and structures, we present a new approach to shape modeling based on self-organizing primitives whose behavi...
Near-duplicate keyframes (NDK) play a unique role in large-scale video search, news topic detection and tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel NDK retrieval approach by explo...
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...