We present an algorithm for performing Lambertian photometric stereo in the presence of shadows. The algorithm has three novel features. First, a fast graph cuts based method is u...
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Performance gains in memory have traditionally been obtained by increasing memory bus widths and speeds. The diminishing returns of such techniques have led to the proposal of an ...
Brinda Ganesh, Aamer Jaleel, David Wang, Bruce L. ...
Lustre is a parallel file system that presents high aggregated IO bandwidth by striping file extents across many storage devices. However, our experiments indicate excessively wid...
Weikuan Yu, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Shane Canon, Song J...
This paper describes a novel method for browsing a large video collection. It links various forms of related video fragments together as threads. These threads are based on query r...