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CGI
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Fast Approximate Quantitative Visibility for Complex Scenes
Ray tracing and Monte-Carlo based global illumination, as well as radiosity and other finite-element based global illumination methods, all require repeated evaluation of quantita...
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischin...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
201views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate Data Collection in Sensor Networks using Probabilistic Models
Wireless sensor networks are proving to be useful in a variety of settings. A core challenge in these networks is to minimize energy consumption. Prior database research has propo...
David Chu, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein, ...
NGC
2000
Springer
101views Communications» more  NGC 2000»
15 years 6 months ago
Information Access in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
PODS
2010
ACM
249views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Semantic query optimization in the presence of types
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
ReDRIVE: result-driven database exploration through recommendations
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...
Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitoura