Purkinje Images: Conveying Different Content for Different Luminance Adaptations in a Single Image

Providing multiple meanings in a single piece of art has always been intriguing to both artists and observers. We present Purkinje images, which have different interpretations depending on the luminance adaptation of... Read more »

A Visualization Tool Used to Develop New Photon Mapping Techniques

We present a visualization tool aimed specifically at the development and optimization of photon map denoising methods. Our tool allows the rapid testing of hypotheses and algorithms through the use of parallel... Read more »

Stable and Fast Fluid–Solid Coupling for Incompressible SPH

The solid boundary handling has been a research focus in physically based fluid animation. In this paper, we propose a novel stable and fast particle method to couple predictive–corrective incompressible smoothed particle... Read more »

Data-Driven Automatic Cropping Using Semantic Composition Search

We present a data-driven method for automatically cropping photographs to be well-composed and aesthetically pleasing. Our method matches the composition of an amateur's photograph to an expert's using point correspondences. The correspondences... Read more »

Real-Time Isosurface Extraction With View-Dependent Level of Detail and Applications

Volumetric scalar data sets are common in many scientific, engineering and medical applications where they originate from measurements or simulations. Furthermore, they can represent geometric scene content, e.g. as distance or density... Read more »

FTC Shuts Down Bitcoin Miner While PayPal Embraces the Cryptocurrency

The Federal Trade Commission takes aim at Bitcoin mining company Butterfly Labs, while PayPal embraces the emerging cryptography. Read more »

CommVault Starts Private Cloud Service Design Group

Users can orchestrate a service-centric approach for private cloud data management and achieve improved security and quality of service levels. Read more »

IBM Leverages Bluemix PaaS, Resiliency in Cloud Battle

IBM's Bluemix Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Big Blue's focus on providing business continuity are key parts of the company's cloud strategy. Read more »

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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Bug Bounty Program

Microsoft will start paying for flaws in the company's cloud-based offerings, starting with Office 365. Read more »