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Illumiroom: Immersive Experiences Beyond the TV Screen
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that surrounds a television with projected light, bringing video games, and film experiences out of the TV screen and into...
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Technical Perspective: Programming Multicore Computers
"Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications" advocates an appealing division of labor between a developer...
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Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap For Parallel Computing Applications?
Current processor trends of integrating more cores with SIMD units have made it more to extract performance from applications. It is believed that traditional...
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Technical Perspective: The Specialization Trend in Computer Hardware
Specialization improves energy-efficiency in computing but only makes economic sense if there is significant demand. A balance can often be found by designing...
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Convolution Engine: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Specialized Computing
We present the Convolution Engine (CE) — a programmable processor specialized for the convolution-like data-flow prevalent in computational photography, computer...
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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: The Equivalence Problem For Finite Automata
As the equivalence problem is essential in many applications, we need algorithms that avoid the worst-case complexity as often as possible. In "Hacking Nondeterminism...
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Hacking Nondeterminism with Induction and Coinduction
We introduce bisimulation up to congruence as a technique for proving language equivalence of nondeterministic finite automata.
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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: Rethinking Caches For Throughput Processors
As GPUs have become mainstream parallel processing engines, many applications targeting GPUs now have data locality more amenable to traditional caching. The...
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Learning Your Limit: Managing Massively Multithreaded Caches Through Scheduling
This paper studies the effect of accelerating highly parallel workloads with significant locality on a massively multithreaded GPU.
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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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