K Nearest Neighbor search has many applications including data mining, multi-media, image processing, and monitoring moving objects. In this paper, we study the problem of KNN over...
Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Y...
Ambient occlusion has proven to be a useful tool for producing realistic images, both in offline rendering and interactive applications. In production rendering, ambient occlusion...
We present a new method for efficiently simulating the scattering of light within participating media. Using a theoretical reformulation of volumetric photon mapping, we develop a...
Wojciech Jarosz, Matthias Zwicker, Henrik Wann Jen...
This paper describes BoostMap, a method for efficient nearest neighbor retrieval under computationally expensive distance measures. Database and query objects are embedded into a v...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, G...
In this paper, an object-based video retrieval methodology for search in large, heterogeneous video collections is presented. The proposed approach employs a real-time, compressed-...
Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G...