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CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Mean-Variance Optimization algorithm
A new stochastic optimization algorithm referred to by the authors as the `Mean-Variance Optimization' (MVO) algorithm is presented in this paper. MVO falls into the category ...
Istvan Erlich, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Nakawiro...
PG
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Real-Time Approximate Subsurface Scattering on Graphics Hardware
This paper presents an image-space approximation technique for real-time subsurface scattering. We first create transmitted irradiance samples on shadow maps and then estimate si...
Hyunwoo Ki, Jihye Lyu, Kyoungsu Oh
PVLDB
2010
167views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance
One of the main reasons why cloud computing has gained so much popularity is due to its ease of use and its ability to scale computing resources on demand. As a result, users can ...
Jörg Schad, Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quia...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
Visibility Subspaces: Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo with Shadows
Photometric stereo relies on inverting the image formation process, and doing this accurately requires reasoning about the visibility of light sources with respect to each image po...
EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
13 years 8 months ago
Scalable Height Field Self-Shadowing
We present a new method suitable for general purpose graphics processing units to render self-shadows on dynamic height fields under dynamic light environments in real-time. Visib...
Ville Timonen and Jan Westerholm