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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Verifying spatial queries using Voronoi neighbors
With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...
GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A novel improvement to the R*-tree spatial index using gain/loss metrics
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Donghui Zhang, Tian Xia
VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Energy-performance trade-offs for spatial access methods on memory-resident data
Abstract. The proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing devices has brought energy constraints into the limelight. Energy-conscious design is important at all levels of syste...
Ning An, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Anand Sivasubramania...
EWSN
2008
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Tracking Dynamic Boundary Fronts Using Range Sensors
Abstract. We examine the problem of tracking dynamic boundaries occurring in natural phenomena using range sensors. Two main challenges of the boundary tracking problem are energy-...
Subhasri Duttagupta, Krithi Ramamritham, Purushott...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Estimating Illumination Direction from Textured Images
We study the problem of estimating the illuminant's direction from images of textured surfaces. Given an isotropic, Gaussian random surface with constant albedo, Koenderink an...
Manik Varma, Andrew Zisserman