Our goal is to design and build a tool for the creation of expressive character animation. Virtual puppetry, also known as performance animation, is a technique in which the user ...
Sageev Oore, Demetri Terzopoulos, Geoffrey E. Hint...
—In this paper, we present a new model for deformations of shapes. A pseudolikelihood is based on the statistical distribution of the gradient vector field of the gray level. The...
Abstract. This paper studies the properties and performance of models for estimating local probability distributions which are used as components of larger probabilistic systems â€...
Kristina Toutanova, Mark Mitchell, Christopher D. ...
Local experts have been used to great effect for fitting deformable
models to images. Typically, the best location in
an image for the deformable model’s landmarks are found
t...
Semantic caching enables mobile clients to answer spatial queries locally by storing the query descriptions together with the results. However, it supports only a limited number o...
Haibo Hu, Jianliang Xu, Wing Sing Wong, Baihua Zhe...