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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Teaching robots by moulding behavior and scaffolding the environment
Programming robots to carry out useful tasks is both a complex and non-trivial exercise. A simple and intuitive method to allow humans to train and shape robot behaviour is clearl...
Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Daut...
VRCAI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Parallel-split shadow maps for large-scale virtual environments
Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
Fan Zhang, Hanqiu Sun, Leilei Xu, Lee Kit Lun
MIR
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
A content-based image retrieval system for fish taxonomy
It is estimated that less than ten percent of the world’s species have been discovered and described. The main reason for the slow pace of new species description is that the sc...
Yixin Chen, Henry L. Bart Jr., Fei Teng
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
14 years 3 months ago
Disk layout optimization for reducing energy consumption
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Seung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir
IFIP
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
New-HOPLA: A Higher-order Process Language with Name Generation
Abstract This paper introduces new-HOPLA, a concise but powerful language for higherorder nondeterministic processes with name generation. Its origins as a metalanguage for domain ...
Glynn Winskel, Francesco Zappa Nardelli