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TVCG
2012
205views Hardware» more  TVCG 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
A Deformable Surface Model for Real-Time Water Drop Animation
—A water drop behaves differently from a large water body because of its strong viscosity and surface tension under the small scale. Surface tension causes the motion of a water ...
Yizhong Zhang, Huamin Wang, Shuai Wang, Yiying Ton...
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Agents along the Virtuality Continuum
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
Elisabeth André
MVA
1998
149views Computer Vision» more  MVA 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Auto-Calibration of a Rotating and Zooming Camera
We propose a method to calibrate a rotating and zooming camera without 3D pattern, where the internal parameters change frame by frame. First, we show that the calibration is uniq...
Yongduek Seo, Ki-Sang Hong
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Updating a cracked database
A cracked database is a datastore continuously reorganized based on operations being executed. For each query, the data of interest is physically reclustered to speed-up future ac...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Exertion in networked games
Physical play familiar from sports activities is a favorite pastime across all cultures and has been attributed with many social, mental and physical health benefits. However, the...
Florian Mueller