This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
Aner Ben-Artzi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala
Phenomenal advances in nano-technology and packaging have made it possible to develop miniaturized low-power devices that integrate sensing, special-purpose computing, and wireles...
Alan A. Bertossi, Stephan Olariu, Maria Cristina P...
Background: Tiling microarrays are becoming an essential technology in the functional genomics toolbox. They have been applied to the tasks of novel transcript identification, elu...
Thomas E. Royce, Nicholas Carriero, Mark B. Gerste...
In high-dimensional query processing, the optimization of the logical page-size of index structures is an important research issue. Even very simple query processing techniques suc...
Most existing dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) schemes for multiple tasks assume an energy cost function (energy consumption versus execution time) that is independent of the task ch...