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ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Approach to Separate Diffuse and Specular Reflections
This paper presents separation of specular and diffuse reflection components from an image pair. The proposed approach is based on the dichromatic reflectance model and Markov ran...
Sang Hwa Lee, Hyung il Koo, Nam Ik Cho, Jong-Il Pa...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Surface Sculpting with Stochastic Deformable 3D Surfaces
This paper introduces a new stochastic surface model for deformable 3D surfaces and demonstrates its utility for the purpose of 3D sculpting. This is the problem of simple-touse a...
Andrew R. Willis, Jasper Speicher, David B. Cooper
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Tissue Classification of Noisy MR Brain Images Using Constrained GMM
We present an automated algorithm for tissue segmentation of noisy, low contrast magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain. We use a mixture model composed of a large number of G...
Amit Ruf, Hayit Greenspan, Jacob Goldberger
VLDB
2007
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
A Simple and Efficient Estimation Method for Stream Expression Cardinalities
Estimating the cardinality (i.e. number of distinct elements) of an arbitrary set expression defined over multiple distributed streams is one of the most fundamental queries of in...
Aiyou Chen, Jin Cao, Tian Bu
SOSP
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services
As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
Haifeng Yu, Amin Vahdat