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ISM
2005
IEEE
159views Multimedia» more  ISM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Avatar-centric Risk Evaluation
Hazard detection and prevention of natural and manmade disasters at critical civil infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Recent events, such as earthquakes and terror...
Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Falko Kuester, Oscar Garc&...
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Expecting the unexpected: representing, reasoning about, and assessing construction project contingencies
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
G. Ryan Anderson, Nilufer Onder, Amlan Mukherjee
TOG
2012
582views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Synthesis of detailed hand manipulations using contact sampling
Capturing human activities that involve both gross full-body motion and detailed hand manipulation of objects is challenging for standard motion capture systems. We introduce a ne...
Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Optimizing complex queries with multiple relation instances
Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
BTW
2009
Springer
240views Database» more  BTW 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Efficient Adaptive Retrieval and Mining in Large Multimedia Databases
Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...
Ira Assent