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SIGGRAPH
1995
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
Creation and rendering of realistic trees
Recent advances in computer graphics have produced images approaching the elusive goal of photorealism. Since many natural objects are so complex and detailed, they are often not ...
Jason Weber, Joseph Penn
HAPTICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Haptic Subdivision: An Approach to Defining Level-of-Detail in Haptic Rendering
Soft objects are often desired in applications such as virtual surgery training. Soft object simulations are computationally intensive because object deformation involves numerica...
Jian Zhang, Shahram Payandeh, John Dill
ICMI
2003
Springer
164views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
A visually grounded natural language interface for reference to spatial scenes
Many user interfaces, from graphic design programs to navigation aids in cars, share a virtual space with the user. Such applications are often ideal candidates for speech interfa...
Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy
CGA
1999
13 years 8 months ago
Dynamics Modeling and Culling
emsintovirtualenvironments,whileabstracting the modeling process as much as possible. To achieve efficiency,weconcentrateoncullingdynamicalsystems: if the system is not in view, we...
Stephen Chenney, Jeffrey Ichnowski, David A. Forsy...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Real Time Body Pose Tracking in an Immersive Training Environment
Abstract. We describe a visual communication application for a dark, theaterlike interactive virtual simulation training environment. Our system visually estimates and tracks the b...
Chi-Wei Chu, Ramakant Nevatia