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CGF
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A Sparse Parametric Mixture Model for BTF Compression, Editing and Rendering
Bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) represent the appearance of complex materials. Three major shortcomings with BTFs are the bulky storage, the difficulty in editing and the ...
Hongzhi Wu, Julie Dorsey, Holly E. Rushmeier
PODS
2012
ACM
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Randomized algorithms for tracking distributed count, frequencies, and ranks
We show that randomization can lead to significant improvements for a few fundamental problems in distributed tracking. Our basis is the count-tracking problem, where there are k...
Zengfeng Huang, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
CVPR
2012
IEEE
11 years 10 months ago
Computing nearest-neighbor fields via Propagation-Assisted KD-Trees
Matching patches between two images, also known as computing nearest-neighbor fields, has been proven a useful technique in various computer vision/graphics algorithms. But this ...
Kaiming He, Jian Sun
IEEEPACT
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Feature selection and policy optimization for distributed instruction placement using reinforcement learning
Communication overheads are one of the fundamental challenges in a multiprocessor system. As the number of processors on a chip increases, communication overheads and the distribu...
Katherine E. Coons, Behnam Robatmili, Matthew E. T...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Overcoming scaling challenges in biomolecular simulations across multiple platforms
NAMD† is a portable parallel application for biomolecular simulations. NAMD pioneered the use of hybrid spatial and force decomposition, a technique now used by most scalable pr...
Abhinav Bhatele, Sameer Kumar, Chao Mei, James C. ...