: In the future, we propose that there will be largely self-sufficient robot colonies operating on distant planets and in harsh environments here on earth. A highly desirable quali...
Abstract: This paper presents the mechanical hardware and control software of a novel high-performance active vision system. It is the latest in an ongoing research effort to devel...
Soft shadows and penumbra regions generated by extended light sources such as linear and area lights are visual effects that significantly contribute to the realism of a scene. In ...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Stefan Brabec, Hans-Peter Seide...
This paper presents an architecture for a persistent object store in which multi-level storage is explicitly included. Traditionally, DBMSs have assumed that all accessible data r...
Abstract. The motivation for this work is to support a natural separation of concerns during formal system development. In a developmentby-refinement context, we would like to be a...