We present techniques to create convincing high-quality watercolor illustrations of plants. Mainly focusing on the real-time rendering, we introduce methods to abstract the visual...
Global illumination provides a visual richness not achievable with the direct illumination models used by most interactive applications. To generate global effects, numerous appro...
Network calculus is a min-plus system theory which facilitates the efficient derivation of performance bounds for networks of queues. It has successfully been applied to provide e...
— This paper describes the mapping of a recently introduced template matching algorithm based on the Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) on a general purpose processor endowed wit...
Luigi di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, Federico Tomb...
The H.264 adopts various block types and multiple reference frames for motion compensation. For transcoding a video sequence from the H.263 format to the H.264 format, it is benef...