Google Announces Beta Availability of Container Engine

Container Engine is aimed at helping DevOps teams and IT administrators more easily set up and manage application container clusters on its cloud platform. Read more »

Docker Container Apps Hit the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft takes a curated, app store-like approach to spinning up containerized apps on its cloud. Read more »

Red Hat Goes All-In for Containers With 2 New Offerings

VIDEO: Paul Cormier, Red Hat EVP and president of products and technologies, discusses two new products announced today at the Red Hat Summit. Read more »

Office 365 Service Notifications Go Mobile

Microsoft added push notifications to the Office 365 Admin app for Windows Phone, iOS and Android so that admins won't be caught off-guard by cloud downtime. Read more »

Oracle Expands Cloud PaaS Offerings in Quest for Renewed Growth

Oracle introduces new platform-as-a-service offerings as it seeks to complete a decade-long transformation from a database and enterprise software company to become a fully integrated cloud services company. Read more »

Bing Kicks Off Summer With Better Video Search, World Cup Predictions

School's out. Microsoft spruces up Bing's online video search and turns its prediction engine on women's soccer. Read more »

CPH: A Compact Representation for Hierarchical Meshes Generated by Primal Refinement

We present CPH (Compact Primal Hierarchy): a compact representation of the hierarchical connectivity of surface and volume manifold meshes generated through primal subdivision refinements. CPH is consistently defined in several dimensions and... Read more »

Interactive Generation of Realistic Facial Wrinkles from Sketchy Drawings

Synthesizing facial wrinkles has been tackled either by a long process of manual sculpting on 3D models, or using automatic methods that do not allow for user interaction or artistic expression. In... Read more »

A Biophysically-Based Model of the Optical Properties of Skin Aging

This paper presents a time-varying, multi-layered biophysically-based model of the optical properties of human skin, suitable for simulating appearance changes due to aging. We have identified the key aspects that cause such... Read more »

IlluminationCut

We present a novel algorithm, IlluminationCut, for rendering images using the many-lights framework. It handles any light source that can be approximated with virtual point lights (VPLs) as well as highly glossy... Read more »