We present the Optimizing Control Variate (OCV) estimator, a new estimator for Monte Carlo rendering. Based upon a deterministic sampling framework, OCV allows multiple importance...
Shaohua Fan, Stephen Chenney, Bo Hu, Kam-Wah Tsui,...
A novel nonlinear cooperative approach to image denoising and restoration is presented. Samples from the image field with similar characteristics are first grouped into clusters b...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Alexander Wong, David A. Cla...
Groundwater long-term monitoring (LTM) is required to assess the performance of groundwater remediation and human being health risk at post-closure sites where groundwater contami...
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
Inefficient use of memory, including leaks and bloat, remain a significant challenge for C and C++ developers. Applications with these problems become slower over time as their wo...