Image blending is an integral part of many multi-image applications such as panorama stitching or remote image acquisition processes. In such scenarios, multiple images are connected at predefined boundaries to form a larger image. A convincing ...

Human breast milk provides nutritional and medicinal benefits that are important to infants, particularly those who are premature or ill. Donor human milk, collected, processed, and dispensed via milk banks, is the standard of care for infants in need ...

The paradigm of interleaving (i.e. blending) visual subgraph query formulation and processing by exploiting the latency offered by the GUI brings in several potential benefits such as superior system response time (SRT) and opportunities to enhance ...

Tropical cyclone (TC) is a type of severe weather systems that occur in tropical regions. Accurate estimation of TC intensity is crucial for disaster management. Moreover, the intensity estimation task is the key to understand and forecast the behavior ...

Swing Compass is a configurable recommendation system that turns tablet computers into a compass-like device whose interface shows recommended items at different directions. Turning the compass 90 degrees results in different sets of options. Based on ...

This paper describes the ongoing project Swing Compass, a configurable recommendation system whose framework is built upon the notion of embodied interaction and blending theory in pursuit of meaning making in users from the operational to the ...

Skinning algorithms that work across a broad range of character designs and poses are crucial to creating compelling animations. Currently, linear blend skinning (LBS) and dual quaternion skinning (DQS) are the most widely used, especially for real-time ...

The Procter & Gamble P&G fabric-care business is a multibillion dollar organization that oversees a global portfolio of products, including household brands such as Tide, Dash, and Gain. Production is impacted by a steady stream of reformulation ...

Queries issued to a search engine are often under-specified or ambiguous. The user's search context or background may provide information that disambiguates their information need in order to automatically predict and issue a more effective query. The ...

This article makes several improvements to the classic PPM algorithm, resulting in a new algorithm with superior compression effectiveness on human text. The key differences of our algorithm to classic PPM are that (A) rather than the original escape ...

Though information technology IT transformation programs are gaining in importance, we know little about the nature of the challenges involved in such programs and how to manage them. Using grounded theory methodology, we conducted a multiyear case ...

In mineral supply chains, medium-term plans are made for scheduling crews, production, and maintenance. These plans must respect constraints associated with loading and unloading, stockyard capacities, fleet capacities, and maintenance and production ...

We propose a fast and generic spatial patch blending technique that can be embedded within any kind of pattern-based inpainting algorithm. This extends our previous work on the visual enhancement of inpainting results. We optimize this blending ...

A new approach to G1 filling of n-sided holes with free-form boundary curves (e.g., polynomial, rational, sinusoidal or other parametric forms) is presented. It has no intrinsic limitation but adequate freedoms for shape adjustment and optimization. The ...

In a previous paper, we laid out the vision of a novel graph query processing paradigm where instead of processing a visual query graph after its construction, it interleaves visual query formulation and processing by exploiting the latency offered by ...

We introduce a new family of binary composition operators that solves four major problems of constructive implicit modeling: suppressing bulges when two shapes merge, avoiding unwanted blending at a distance, ensuring that the resulting shape keeps the ...

Most methods for synthesizing panoramas assume that the scene is static. A few methods have been proposed for synthesizing stereo or motion panoramas, but there has been little attempt to synthesize panoramas that have both stereo and motion. One faces ...

Numerous planning models within the chemical, petroleum, and process industries involve coordinating the movement of raw materials in distribution networks so they can be blended into final products. The uncapacitated fixed-charge transportation problem ...

The use of linear interpolation to blend different terrain types with distinct features produces translucency artefacts that can detract from the realism of the scene. The approach presented in this paper addresses the feature agnosticism of linear ...

Tiled projector displays are a common choice for training simulators, where a high resolution output image is required. They are cheap for the resolution that they can reach and can be configured in many different ways. Nevertheless, such kinds of ...