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This work presents a novel approach for dynamically rendering annotations attached to a 3D scene. We formulate the problem as a general optimization under constraints, accounting for certain desirable properties. To approximately solve the NP-hard optimization problem in real-time, we present a particular heuristic that greedily places labels while maintaining constraints. Typical greedy label placement […]

Atmospheric binary mixtures such as tornado, sandstorm are common natural phenomena in our daily life. There are two fluid systems in these phenomena, which are air flow (wind field) and dust particle flow. Due to the complex mechanism of two fluid systems and the interaction between them, few works have been done on simulating these […]

In recent years, many image-based rendering techniques have advanced from static to dynamic scenes and thus become video-based rendering (VBR) methods. But actually, only few of them can render new views on-line. We present a new VBR system that creates new views of a dynamic scene in live. This system provides high quality images and […]

In this paper we present a novel numerical approximation scheme for anisotropic diffusion which is at the same time a special case of iterated adaptive filtering. By assuming a sufficiently smooth diffusion tensor field, we simplify the divergence term and obtain an evolution equation that is computed from a scalar product of diffusion tensor and […]

The inhomogeneous Poisson (Laplace) equation with internal Dirichlet boundary conditions has recently appeared in several applications ranging from image segmentation [1, 2, 3] to image colorization [4], digital photo matting [5, 6] and image filtering [7, 8]. In addition, the problem we address may also be considered as the generalized eigenvector problem associated with Normalized […]

Since the advent of programmable graphics processors (GPUs) their computational powers have been utilized for general purpose computation. Initially by “exploiting” graphics APIs and recently through dedicated parallel computation frameworks such as the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) from Nvidia. This paper investigates multiple implementations of volumetric Mass-Spring-Damper systems in CUDA. The obtained performance is […]

The map-reduce model requires users to express their problem in terms of a map function that processes single records in a stream, and a reduce function that merges all mapped outputs to produce a final result. By exposing structural similarity in this way, a number of key issues associated with the design of custom computing […]

This paper presents a decompression pipeline capable of accelerating out-of-core volume rendering of time-varying scalar data. Our pipeline is based on a two-stage compression method that cooperatively uses the CPU and the graphics processing unit (GPU) to transfer compressed data entirely from the storage device to the video memory. This method combines two different compression […]

By using a combination of 32-bit and 64-bit floating point arithmetic, the performance of many sparse linear algebra algorithms can be significantly enhanced while maintaining the 64-bit accuracy of the resulting solution. These ideas can be applied to sparse multifrontal and supernodal direct techniques and sparse iterative techniques such as Krylov subspace methods. The approach […]

This paper presents a real-time computer simulation of surgical procedures in the ear, in which a surgeon drills into the temporal bone to gain access to the middle or inner ear. The purpose of this simulator is to support development of anatomical insight and training of drilling skills for both medical students and experienced otologists. […]

We present an efficient O( n ) numerical algorithm for first-order approximation of geodesic distances on geometry images, where n is the number of points on the surface. The structure of our algorithm allows efficient implementation on parallel architectures. Two implementations on a SIMD processor and on a GPU are discussed. Numerical results demonstrate up […]

This paper presents the design and evaluation of the stream processing implementation of the Integral Image algorithm. The Integral Image is a key component of many image processing algorithms in particular the Haar-like feature based systems. Modern GPUs provide a large number of processors with a peak floating point performance that is significantly higher than […]