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CVPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Shape Topics: A Compact Representation and New Algorithms for 3D Partial Shape Retrieval
This paper develops an efficient new method for 3D partial shape retrieval. First, a Monte Carlo sampling strategy is employed to extract local shape signatures from each 3D model...
Yi Liu, Hongbin Zha, Hong Qin
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries
The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vivek R. Narasayya
WEBI
2004
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
Estimating Size of Search Engines in an Uncooperative Environment
The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
Surendra Karnatapu, Karthik Ramachandran, Zonghuan...
NPAR
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Detail-preserving paint modeling for 3D brushes
Recent years have witnessed significant advances in 3D brush modeling and simulation in digital paint tools. Compared with traditional 2D brushes, a 3D brush can be both more intu...
Nelson Siu-Hang Chu, William Baxter, Li-Yi Wei, Na...
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation
We report on a query compilation technique that enables the construction of alternative efficient query providers for Microsoft’s Language Integrated Query (LINQ) framework. LIN...
Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Tom Schreiber