Current service discovery and subscription are “provider-centric” indeed, which costs the consumers too many efforts and makes the wide spectrum of QoS hard to use. In this po...
This paper describes the automatic creation of simple cinematic scenes and events that use film language (FL) as the basis for the creation of a visual story, aiming to improve it...
Environment matting is a generalization of traditional bluescreen matting. By photographing an object in front of a sequence of structured light backdrops, a set of approximate li...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Douglas E. Zongker, Joel Hindorff,...
The aim of this paper is to provide a logical framework for the specification of autonomous Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). A MAS is autonomous in so far as it is capable of binding (...
We extend the standard solution to comic rendering with a comic-style specular component. To minimise the computational overhead associated with this extension, we introduce two o...