or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
—The Morse-Smale complex is a useful topological data structure for the analysis and visualization of scalar data. This paper describes an algorithm that processes all mesh eleme...
Nithin Shivashankar, Senthilnathan M, Vijay Natara...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
Recent years have seen an increased interest in motion capture systems. Current systems, however, are limited to only a few degrees of freedom, so that effectively only the motion...
Ray (segment) shooting is the problem of determining the first intersection between a ray (directed line segment) and a collection of polygonal or polyhedral obstacles. In order t...
Joseph S. B. Mitchell, David M. Mount, Subhash Sur...