The recent development of Sequential Monte Carlo methods (also called particle filters) has enabled the definition of efficient algorithms for tracking applications in image sequen...
Organizing digital images into semantic categories is imperative for effective browsing and retrieval. In large image collections, an efficient algorithm is crucial to quickly cat...
Taufik Abidin, Aijuan Dong, Honglin Li, William Pe...
We present a new approach to iteratively estimate both
high-quality depth map and alpha matte from a single image
or a video sequence. Scene depth, which is invariant
to illumin...
Jiejie Zhu (University of Kentucky), Miao Liao (Un...
We describe a physically-based Monte Carlo technique for approximating bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) for a large class of geometries by directly simulat...
Stephen H. Westin, James Arvo, Kenneth E. Torrance
This paper presents a novel image-based approach to render plausible soft shadows for complex dynamic scenes with rectangular light sources. The algorithm's performance is mo...