One of the main goals in realistic rendering is to generate images that are indistinguishable from photographs – but how do observers decide whether an image is photographic or c...
Paul Rademacher, Jed Lengyel, Edward Cutrell, Turn...
To take advantage of the ever-increasing volume of diagrams in electronic form, it is crucial that we have methods for parsing diagrams. Once a structured, content-based descripti...
In this paper, we propose a new method, Parametric Embedding (PE), for visualizing the posteriors estimated over a mixture model. PE simultaneously embeds both objects and their c...
Tomoharu Iwata, Kazumi Saito, Naonori Ueda, Sean S...
Height maps are a very efficient surface representation, initially developed for terrain modeling and visualization. They are also present in other applications, such as mesostruc...
Paulo I. N. Santos, Rodrigo de Toledo, Marcelo Gat...
The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is a similarity measure that captures perceptual difference between two distributions. Its computational complexity, however, prevents a direc...