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In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
As virtual worlds demand ever more realistic 3D models, attention is being focussed on systems that can acquire graphical models from real objects. This paper describes a system wh...
Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Geoffrey Cross, Andrew Zisse...
For a mobile robot to move in a known environment and operate successfully, first it needs to robustly determine its initial position and orientation relative to the map, and then ...
Ali R. Vahdat, Naser NourAshrafoddin, Saeed Shiry ...
We present a novel motion-based approach for the part determination and shape estimation of a human’s body parts. The novelty of the technique is that neither a prior model of t...