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A hybrid model for smoke simulation
A smoke simulation approach based on the integration of traditional particle systems and density functions is presented in this paper. By attaching a density function to each particle as its attribute, the dif...
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A volume-preserving approach for modeling and animating water flows generated by metaballs
This paper presents a volume-preserving approach for animating liquid flows modeled by metaballs. A volume of liquid can be adjusted to a previous volume by using the influence radius and the maximum density o...
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Ant Colony Search Algorithms for Optimal Packing Problem
Ant Colony optimization takes inspiration from the behavior of real ant colony to solve optimization problems. This paper presents a parallel model for ant colony to solve the optimal packing problem. The prob...
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Water Droplet Morphing Combining Rigid Transformation
This paper presents a plausible method for large water droplet morphing, taken into account the rigid transformation. The droplet on a plane was represented by the contact area, which was described via “a vari...
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An Ontology-Based Functional Modeling Approach for Multi-agent Distributed Design on the Semantic Web
This paper describes a preliminary attempt at using Semantic Web paradigm, especially the Web Ontology Language (OWL), for functional design knowledge representation during functional modeling in a multi-agent...
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A Constrained Ant Colony Algorithm for Image Registration
Ant Colony optimization takes inspiration from the behavior of real ant colony to solve optimization problems. We attach some constraints to ant colony model and present a parallel constrained ant colony model...
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Bayesian Mesh Reconstruction from Noisy Point Data
This paper presents a new reverse engineering method for creating 3D mesh models, which approximates unorganized noisy point data without orientation information. The main idea of the method is based on statis...
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A hierarchical approach to disassembly sequence planning for mechanical product
An important aspect of design for the life cycle is assessing the disassemblability of products. This paper presents a novel approach to automatic generation of disassembly sequence from hierarchical attribute...
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A knowledge-based approach to assembly sequence planning
Assembly planning plays a major role in the manufacturing industry. In order to reduce computational complexity, this paper presents a knowledge-based approach to the assembly sequence planning problem. The CS...
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Boosted cascade of scattered rectangle features for object detection
This paper presents a variant of Haar-like feature used in Viola and Jones detection framework, called scattered rectangle feature, based on the common-component analysis of local region feature. Three common ...
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Selective image abstraction
We present a novel and convenient method for producing selective stylized simplification of images. The user uses a brush to interactively mark certain areas of the input image which are to be left unaltered. ...
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Environment-Sensitive cloning in images
We present an Environment-Sensitive image cloning technique which improves the previous gradient-based methods by taking into account the content of target scene. We create a reference image to represent the g...
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Mesh Segmentation for Parallel Decompression on GPU
We present a novel algorithm to partition large 3D meshes for GPU-based decompression. Our formulation focuses on minimizing the replicated vertices between patches, and balancing the numbers of faces of patch...
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All-hexahedral mesh generation via inside-out advancing front based on harmonic fields
The generation of hexahedral meshes is an open problem that has undergone significant research. This paper deals with a novel inside-out advancing front method to generate unstructured all-hexahedral meshes fo...
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Robust super resolution of compressed video
This paper presents a robust algorithm to recover high-frequency information from compressed low-resolution (LR) video sequences. Previous super-resolution (SR) approaches have succeeded in resolution enhancem...
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Efficient dark channel based image dehazing using quadtrees
Using dark channel prior—a kind of statistics of the haze-free outdoor images—to remove haze from a single image input is simple and effective. However, due to the use of soft matting algorithm, the method suf...
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Open AccessGPU based real-time simulation of massive falling leaves
As an important autumn feature, scenes with large numbers of falling leaves are common in movies and games. However, it is a challenge for computer graphics to simulate such scenes in an authentic and efficien...
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Depth incorporating with color improves salient object detection
Detecting salient objects in challenging images attracts increasing attention as many applications require more robust method to deal with complex images from the Internet. Prior methods produce poor saliency ...
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Interactive mesh cloning driven by boundary loop
In order to copy arbitrary irregular mesh between two models continuously, this paper presents an interactive mesh cloning approach based on pyramid spherical coordinates driven by boundary loop. The approach ...
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Open AccessEfficient and robust strain limiting and treatment of simultaneous collisions with semidefinite programming
We present an efficient and robust method which performs well for both strain limiting and treatment of simultaneous collisions. Our method formulates strain constraints and collision constraints as a serial o...