A cornerstone of VMWorld is the keynote speeches in which VMware and its partners discuss new products and general trends for the road ahead. Read more »
NEWS ANALYSIS: In its never-ending battle for dominance in the cloud applications market, Google has brought some powerful and mobile-friendly new features to Google Doc. Read more »
The Competition Commission of India sent Google a report charging that the company is ranking its own services ahead of those from others in search results.
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Following January's launch of the G-Series high-performance virtual machines for Azure, Microsoft is eyeing even bigger enterprise cloud workloads. Read more »
SAP says its new HANA Vora query engine extends the Apache Spark processing engine to provide the data analytics muscle to discover business insights from all types of big data. Read more »
Co-aligning a collection of shapes to a consistent pose is a common problem in shape analysis with applications in shape matching, retrieval and visualization. We observe that resolving among some orientations is... Read more »
We present two novel mobile reflectometry approaches for acquiring detailed spatially varying isotropic surface reflectance and mesostructure of a planar material sample using commodity mobile devices. The first approach relies on the... Read more »
Digitally capturing vegetation using off-the-shelf scanners is a challenging problem. Plants typically exhibit large self-occlusions and thin structures which cannot be properly scanned. Furthermore, plants are essentially dynamic, deforming over the time,... Read more »
Collaborative filtering collects similar patches, jointly filters them and scatters the output back to input patches; each pixel gets a contribution from each patch that overlaps with it, allowing signal reconstruction from... Read more »
Measuring the spectral power distribution of a light source, that is, the emission as a function of wavelength, typically requires the use of spectrophotometers or multi-spectral cameras. Here, we propose a low-cost... Read more »