At Rice University, we have undertaken a project to construct a framework for generating high-level problem solving languages that can achieve high performance on a variety of pla...
Recent advancements in video and audio codec technologies (e.g., RealVideo [18]) make multimedia streaming possible across a wide range of network conditions. With an increasing t...
Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Hoi-sheung Wilson So, Byungho...
This paper contains two contributions to very-low-bitrate video coding. First, we show that in contrast to common practice incremental techniques for rate-distortion optimization ...
The recent improvements in workstation and interconnection network performance have popularized the clusters of off-the-shelf workstations. However, the usefulness of these cluste...
This paper describes an algorithm for automatically adapting existing simulated behaviors to new characters. Animating a new character is difficult because a control system tuned...