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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Rendering with coherent layers
For decades, animated cartoons and movie special effects have factored the rendering of a scene into layers that are updated independently and composed in the final display. We ap...
Jed Lengyel, John Snyder
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
133views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 8 months ago
Multi-dimensional Resource Scheduling for Parallel Queries
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis
CF
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Parallel genomic sequence-search on a massively parallel system
In the life sciences, genomic databases for sequence search have been growing exponentially in size. As a result, faster sequencesearch algorithms to search these databases contin...
Oystein Thorsen, Brian E. Smith, Carlos P. Sosa, K...
COMPGEOM
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Guard placement for efficient point-in-polygon proofs
We consider the problem of placing a small number of angle guards inside a simple polygon P so as to provide efficient proofs that any given point is inside P. Each angle guard vi...
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Nodari Sitchi...
APGV
2010
ACM
266views Visualization» more  APGV 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
Horizon estimation: perceptual and computational experiments
The human visual system is able to quickly and robustly infer a wealth of scene information – the scene "gist" – already after 100 milliseconds of image presentation...
Christian Herdtweck, Christian Wallraven