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SIGGRAPH
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
RepFinder: Finding Approximately Repeated Scene Elements for Image Editing
Repeated elements are ubiquitous and abundant in both manmade and natural scenes. Editing such images while preserving the repetitions and their relations is nontrivial due to over...
Ming-Ming Cheng, Fang-Lue Zhang, Niloy J. Mitra, X...
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lightweight kernel/user communication for real-time and multimedia applications
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Practical Performance Model for Optimizing Dynamic Load Balancing of Adaptive Applications
Optimizing the performance of dynamic load balancing toolkits and applications requires the adjustment of several runtime parameters; however, determining sufficiently good value...
Kevin Barker, Nikos Chrisochoides
MOBIHOC
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Fine-grained mobility characterization: steady and transient state behaviors
Recent popularization of personal hand-held mobile devices makes it important to characterize the mobility pattern of mobile device users, so as to accurately predict user mobilit...
Wei Gao, Guohong Cao
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...