We consider complex scheduling problems that can be captured as optimization under hard and soft constraints. The objective of such an optimization problem is to satisfy as many h...
Abstract. This paper presents a new method for extracting semantic information from basketball video. Our approach consists of three stages: shot and scene boundary detection, scen...
Song Liu, Haoran Yi, Liang-Tien Chia, Deepu Rajan,...
With the advancements in realtime ray tracing and new global illumination algorithms we are now able to render the most important illumination effects at interactive rates. One of...
Several clustering algorithms equipped with pairwise hard constraints between data points are known to improve the accuracy of clustering solutions. We develop a new clustering alg...
Martin H. C. Law, Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jai...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...