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HUMO
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Human Motion from Active Contours
We describe an approach for extracting threedimensional articulated motion from unrestricted monocular video sequences. We combine feature extraction methods based on active conto...
Jane Wilhelms, Allen Van Gelder, L. Atkinson-Derma...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Scalable Monitoring Technique for Detecting Races in Parallel Programs
Detecting races is important for debugging shared-memory parallel programs, because the races result in unintended nondeterministic executions of the programs. Previous on-the- y t...
Yong-Kee Jun, Charles E. McDowell
RT
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling and Rendering for Realistic Facial Animation
Abstract. Rendering realistic faces and facial expressions requires good models for the reflectance of skin and the motion of the face. We describe a system for modeling, animating...
Stephen R. Marschner, Brian K. Guenter, Sashi Ragh...
RT
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Direct Ray Tracing of Displacement Mapped Triangles
We present an algorithm for ray tracing displacement maps that requires no additional storage over the base model. Displacement maps are rarely used in ray tracing due to the cost...
Brian E. Smits, Peter Shirley, Michael M. Stark
CHI
1995
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth"
This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database to a user based on similarities between the interest pro le of that user and tho...
Upendra Shardanand, Pattie Maes