The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful tool for classification. We generalize SVM to work with data objects that are naturally understood to be lying on curved manifolds, ...
Suman K. Sen, Mark Foskey, James Stephen Marron, M...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
Raytracing metaballs is a problem that has numerous applications in the rendering of dynamic soft objects such as fluids. However, current techniques are either limited in the vi...
Olivier Gourmel, Anthony Pajot, Mathias Paulin, Lo...
The rapid and efficient creation of virtual environments has become a crucial part of virtual reality applications. In particular, civil and defense applications often require an...
This paper proposes a vision-based method for detecting the positions of fingertips of a hand playing a guitar. We detect the skin color of a guitar player’s hand by using on-li...