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GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Web 2.0 Geospatial Visual Analytics for Improved Urban Flooding Situational Awareness and Assessment
Situational awareness of urban flooding during storm events is important for disaster and emergency management. However, no general purpose tools yet exist for rendering rainfall ...
Alejandro Rodríguez, David Hill, Jim Myers,...
CODES
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Power reduction via macroblock prioritization for power aware H.264 video applications
As the importance of multimedia applications in hand-held devices increases, the computational strain and corresponding demand for energy in such devices continues to grow. Portab...
Michael A. Baker, Viswesh Parameswaran, Karam S. C...
AVI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Content aware video presentation on high-resolution displays
We describe a prototype video presentation system that presents a video in a manner consistent with the video's content. Our prototype takes advantage of the physically large...
Clifton Forlines
GROUP
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Perspective layered visualization of collaborative workspaces
Visual shared workspaces will be always staying on users’ screens in the near future. Users will be moving frequently between their personal workspaces for personal and asynchro...
Hidekazu Shiozawa, Ken-ichi Okada, Yutaka Matsushi...
IWC
2011
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13 years 4 months ago
Socio-technical systems: From design methods to systems engineering
The importance of adopting a socio-technical approach to system development is recognised by many but not widely practised. We analyse the reasons for this, considering the histor...
Gordon D. Baxter, Ian Sommerville