Actifio Strikes New Deals with AWS, Google Nearline Storage

Actifio pioneered copy data virtualization, which decouples business data from business infrastructure in the same way hypervisors decouple compute from servers. Read more »

Druva Automates Data Governance for Mobile Devices

Druva's market differentiator is that it offers a single platform that converges data availability and comprehensive governance across endpoints in the cloud. Read more »

For Jet.com, It’s All About E-Commerce Pricing Disruption

The CEO believes the company will succeed because the company's profits initially will come from collecting annual membership fees. Read more »

Seven Key Milestones in OpenStack’s Five-Year History

OpenStack, now 5 years old, has emerged as one of the leading cloud platforms. Its member roster includes governments and major companies. Read more »

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Extracting Microfacet-based BRDF Parameters from Arbitrary Materials with Power Iterations

We introduce a novel fitting procedure that takes as input an arbitrary material, possibly anisotropic, and automatically converts it to a microfacet BRDF. Our algorithm is based on the property that the... Read more »

Wavelet Point-Based Global Illumination

Point-Based Global Illumination (PBGI) is a popular rendering method in special effects and motion picture productions. This algorithm provides a diffuse global illumination solution by caching radiance in a mesh-less hierarchical data... Read more »

Radiometric Transfer: Example-based Radiometric Linearization of Photographs

We present an example-based approach for radiometrically linearizing photographs that takes as input a radiometrically linear exemplar image and a target regular uncalibrated image of the same scene, possibly from a different... Read more »

Modeling Luminance Perception at Absolute Threshold

When human luminance perception operates close to its absolute threshold, i. e., the lowest perceivable absolute values, appearance changes substantially compared to common photopic or scotopic vision. In particular, most observers report... Read more »

Motion Aware Exposure Bracketing for HDR Video

Mobile phones and tablets are rapidly gaining significance as omnipresent image and video capture devices. In this context we present an algorithm that allows such devices to capture high dynamic range (HDR)... Read more »