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GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Detecting basic topological changes in sensor networks by local aggregation
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can provide real-time information about geospatial environments, and so have the potential to play an important role in the monitoring of geographi...
Jixiang Jiang, Michael F. Worboys
ICRA
2002
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 9 days ago
Mosaicing Large Cyclic Environments for Visual Navigation in Autonomous Vehicles
Mobile robot localization from large-scale appearance mosaics has been showing increasing promise as a low-cost, high-performance and infrastructure-free solution to vehicle guida...
Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Alonzo Kelly
SIGGRAPH
1992
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring and modeling anisotropic reflection
A new device for measuringthe spatial reflectancedistributionsof surfaces is introduced, along with a new mathematical model of sniaorropic reflectance. The reflectance model pres...
Gregory J. Ward
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Progressive optimization in a shared-nothing parallel database
Commercial enterprise data warehouses are typically implemented on parallel databases due to the inherent scalability and performance limitation of a serial architecture. Queries ...
Wook-Shin Han, Jack Ng, Volker Markl, Holger Kache...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...