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Technical Perspective: Image Processing Goes Back to Basics
In "Local Laplacian Filters," Paris et al. made a surprising move. They chose to build a system on the Laplacian pyramid, which is a very simple multiscale representation...
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Local Laplacian Filters: Edge-Aware Image Processing with a Laplacian Pyramid
In this paper, we demonstrate that state-of-the-art edge-aware filters can be achieved with standard Laplacian pyramids.
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Technical Perspective: Big Data Needs Approximate Computing
"Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs" demonstrates the significant advantages in cost, power, and latency through approximate computing...
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Neural Acceleration For General-Purpose Approximate Programs
This paper describes a new approach that uses machine learning-based transformations to accelerate approximation-tolerant programs.
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Technical Perspective: The Intricate Dance of Fabric and Light
For years, graphics programs have simulated fabric as a collection of fibers, requiring tweaks to algorithms for each new fabric. "Building Volumetric Appearance...
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Building Volumetric Appearance Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging
Visualizing and rendering cloth has been an important area of graphics research for decades. This paper proposes a new approach to acquiring volume models, based...
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Technical Perspective: Attacking a Problem from the Middle
"Dissection: A New Paradigm for Solving Bicomposite Search Problems," by Itai Dinur, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir, presents an elegant new algorithm...
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Dissection: A New Paradigm For Solving Bicomposite Search Problems
In this paper, we introduce the new notion of bicomposite search problems, and show that they can be solved with improved combinations of time and space complexities...
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Technical Perspective: Portraiture in the Age of Big Data
"Moving Portraits" is, in some sense, part of the perpetual quest to capture the perfect portrait. Its principal contribution is in adapting this age-old problem...
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Moving Portraits
We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person. By optimizing the quantity and order in which photos are...
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Technical Perspective: Motion Fields For Interactive Character Animation
The following paper effectively treats motion clips as a set of independent motion vectors. In their ensemble, these high-dimensional motion vectors define a...
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Motion Fields For Interactive Character Locomotion
We propose a novel representation of motion data and control of virtual characters that gives highly agile responses to user input and allows a natural handling...
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Technical Perspective: A 'Reasonable' Solution to Deformation Methods
Jacobson et al. construct a deformation method that allows a wide range of handle types (points, line segments, open and closed polygons) and produces deformations...
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Bounded Biharmonic Weights For Real-Time Deformation
Changing an object's shape is a basic operation in computer graphics. Our goal is to make the design and control of deformations simpler by allowing the user to...
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Technical Perspective: Centip3De Demonstrates More Than Moore...
Exponentially increasing transistor integration also demands more interconnections, which have started hitting fundamental limits. The Centip3De design demonstrates...
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Centip3De: A Many-Core Prototype Exploring 3D Integration and Near-Threshold Computing
This paper evaluates the use of three-dimensional integration to reduce global interconnect by adding multiple layers of silicon with vertical connections between...
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Technical Perspective: Can We Verify Cyber-Physical Systems?
Developing effective symbolic verification technology for mixed discrete-analog models has proved to be a challenging problem. The following paper by Althoff...
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Formal Verification of Phase-Locked Loops Using Reachability Analysis and Continuization
We present a scalable and formal technique to verify locking time and stability for charge-pump phase-locked loops (PLLs).
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Technical Perspective: Progress in Visual Categorization
Our visual system helps us carry out our daily business. Our eyes and brain help us by measuring shapes, trajectories, and distances in world around us, and by...
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