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ICANN
2005
Springer
16 years 11 days ago
An Analytic Distance Metric for Gaussian Mixture Models with Application in Image Retrieval
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new distance metric for probability density functions (PDF). The main advantage of this metric is that unlike the popular Kullback-Liebler (KL)...
Giorgos Sfikas, Constantinos Constantinopoulos, Ar...
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
16 years 3 days ago
Estimating surface normals in noisy point cloud data
In this paper we describe and analyze a method based on local least square fitting for estimating the normals at all sample points of a point cloud data (PCD) set, in the presenc...
Niloy J. Mitra, An Nguyen
SCALESPACE
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Object Detection through Level Curves Selection
Bayesian statistical theory is a convenient way of taking a priori information into consideration when inference is made from images. In Bayesian image detection, the a priori dist...
Charles Kervrann
RT
1995
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Reconstruction of Illumination from Area Luminaires
This paper is concerned with the e cient reconstruction of illumination from area luminaires. We outline a 2-pass scheme a lightpass, tracing ray bundles from the luminaires follow...
Steven Collins
SIGGRAPH
1995
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Depicting fire and other gaseous phenomena using diffusion processes
Developing a visually convincing model of fire, smoke, and other gaseousphenomenais among the most difficult and attractive problems in computer graphics. We have created new me...
Jos Stam, Eugene Fiume