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CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
BoostMap: A Method for Efficient Approximate Similarity Rankings
This paper introduces BoostMap, a method that can significantly reduce retrieval time in image and video database systems that employ computationally expensive distance measures, ...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
MrsRF: an efficient MapReduce algorithm for analyzing large collections of evolutionary trees
Background: MapReduce is a parallel framework that has been used effectively to design largescale parallel applications for large computing clusters. In this paper, we evaluate th...
Suzanne Matthews, Tiffani L. Williams
CGF
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Interactive Rendering of Non-Constant, Refractive Media Using the Ray Equations of Gradient-Index Optics
Existing algorithms can efficiently render refractive objects of constant refractive index. For a medium with a continuously varying index of refraction, most algorithms use the r...
Chen Cao, Zhong Ren, Baining Guo, Kun Zhou
EUROSSC
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Mapping by Seeing - Wearable Vision-Based Dead-Reckoning, and Closing the Loop
We introduce, characterize and test a vision-based dead-reckoning system for wearable computing that allows to track the user’s trajectory in an unknown and non-instrumented envi...
Daniel Roggen, Reto Jenny, Patrick de la Hamette, ...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Shape Representation and Registration using Vector Distance Functions
This paper introduces a new method for shape registration by matching vector distance functions. The vector distance function representation is more flexible than the conventional...
Hossam E. Abd El Munim, Aly A. Farag