Scene Understanding By Labeling Pixels
Pixels labeled with a scene's semantics and geometry let computers describe what they see.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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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 Models of Fabric Using Micro CT Imaging" solves this problem in a creative way.
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 on density data from CT scans and appearance data from photographs under uncontrolled illumination.
A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
Looking at the design and benefits of X10.
Software’s Vital Role at Japan Robot Week 2014
Modern robots are no longer just about hardware. Software algorithms play an essential role in bringing life-like movements to industrial robots and humanoids.
Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. When machines are in the natural world, what in the world is still unnatural?
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.
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 for solving a broad class of combinatorial optimization problems.
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 by using a new algorithmic paradigm called dissection.
The prospect of increasingly unconventional computing methods that may force us to rethink how we analyze problems for purposes of getting computers to solve them for us.
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 to our post-modern, big data world.
Optimality in Robot Motion: Optimal Versus Optimized Motion
Exploring the distinction between an optimal robot motion and a robot motion resulting from the application of optimization techniques.
Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?
A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.
As our computational tools become more and more powerful, we can anticipate that our growing knowledge of the mechanics of our world will allow us to use simulation to visualize, understand, and even design processes that we could only crudely imagine before.
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 displayed, we can create moving portraits from collections of still photos.
Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
Surgical Robots Deliver Care More Precisely
Computer-controlled robotic surgical systems and tumor-targeting radiation systems provide a greater level of precision in treatment than doctors alone can provide.
Robots Compete in Disaster Scenarios
The DARPA Robotics Challenge pitted teams from around the world against each other in a series of disaster-themed tasks.
Holographic Projection Systems Provide Eternal Life
Optical tricks help deceased entertainers keep on performing.
Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector
The Caltech CSN project collects sensor data from thousands of personal devices for real-time response to dangerous earthquakes.
The Rise of RaaS: The Resource-as-a-Service Cloud
In the RaaS cloud, virtual machines trade in fine-grain resources on the fly.
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