In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
Two central criteria for data quality are consistency and accuracy. Inconsistencies and errors in a database often emerge as violations of integrity constraints. Given a dirty dat...
The focus of research in acceleration structures for ray tracing recently shifted from render time to time to image, the sum of build time and render time, and also the memory foo...
A new large margin classifier, named MaxiMin Margin Machine (M4 ) is proposed in this paper. This new classifier is constructed based on both a "local" and a "globa...
Kaizhu Huang, Haiqin Yang, Irwin King, Michael R. ...
This paper presents a simple and efficient method of modeling synthetic vision, memory, and learning for autonomous animated characters in real-time virtual environments. The mode...