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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Anatomy-based modeling of the human musculature
Artists study anatomy to understand the relationship between exterior form and the structures responsible for creating it. In this paper we follow a similar approach in developing...
Ferdi Scheepers, Richard E. Parent, Wayne E. Carls...
UIST
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting Cooperative and Personal Surfing with a Desktop Assistant
We motivate the use of desktop assistants in the context of web surfing and show how such a tool may be used to support activities in both cooperative and personal surfing. By coo...
Hannes Marais, Krishna Bharat
AVBPA
1997
Springer
140views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 1997»
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Integrating Face Recognition into Security Systems
Automated processing of facial images has become a serious market for both hard- and software products. For the commercial success of face recognition systems it is most crucial th...
Volker Vetter, Thomas Zielke, Werner von Seelen
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
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Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey F. Naughton
PDIS
1994
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Session Guarantees for Weakly Consistent Replicated Data
Four per-session guarantees are proposed to aid users and applications of weakly consistent replicated data: Read Your Writes, Monotonic Reads, Writes Follow Reads, and Monotonic ...
Douglas B. Terry, Alan J. Demers, Karin Petersen, ...