Shadow mapping is a commonly used technique for generating hard shadows in real time. However, existing shadow map based algorithms cannot render full soft shadows penumbras onto ...
As part of a more extensive study of reading-related practices, we have explored how people share information they encounter in their everyday reading as a complement to the more ...
A comprehensive study of the whole petabyte-scale archival data of astronomical observatories has a possibility of new science and new knowledge in the field, while it was not fe...
I report briefly on some of my own work in each of these areas and elucidate some of the questions that this research has raised. Then I propose as a research agenda the developme...
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...