Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
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The Pipeline from Computing Research to Surprising Inventions
Peter Lee’s Keynote Speech on the 14th Computing in the 21st Century Conference co-hosted by Microsoft Research Asia, Nankai University and Tianjin University on October 25, 2012. Abstract:One of the most exciting aspects of computer…
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Introducing Project Naiad and Differential Dataflow
Naiad, now available for download, is an investigation of data-parallel dataflow computation in the spirit of Dryad and DryadLINQ, but with a focus on incremental computation. Naiad introduces a new computational model, differential dataflow, operating…
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Motion-Guided Mechanical Toy Modeling
We introduce a new method to synthesize mechanical toys solely from the motion of their features. The designer specifies the geometry and a time-varying rotation and translation of each rigid feature component. Our algorithm automatically…
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