Modeling of realistic garments is essential for creating believable virtual environments. Sketch-based modeling of garments presents an appealing, easy to use alternative to the established modeling approaches which are time consuming and require significant tailoring expertise. Unfortunately, the results created using existing sketch-based methods lack realism. Driven by human perception of ga...

This paper provides an overview of an approach to coalgebraic modelling and refinement of state-based software components, summing up some basic results and introducing a discussion on the interplay between behavioural and classical data refinement. The approach builds on coalgebra theory as a suitable tool to capture observational semantics and to base an abstract characterisation of possible ...

Product configuration systems are an emerging technology that supports companies in deploying mass customization strategies. Such strategies need to cover the management of the whole customizable product cycle. Adding process modeling and configuration features to a product configurator may improve its ability to assist mass customization development. In this paper, we describe a modeling frame...

We outline and clarify the essential concepts of the componentware paradigm. After motivating the role of formal foundations and introducing a number of useful description techniques, we propose a flexible process model for component-based development. The presented techniques and concepts serve as building blocks of an overall methodology for componentware which is the focus of our current work.

Image Based Rendering holds a lot of promise for navigating through a real world scene without modeling it manually. Different representations have been proposed for IBR in the literature. In this paper, we argue that a representation using depth maps and texture images from a number of viewpoints is a rich and viable representation for IBR. We discuss different aspects of this representation i...

In this paper, we formalize an integral sofnvare process model which is applied to the construction of conventional systems (CS) and knowledge-based systems (KBS), centered in the capacities. The Capacities Centered Integral Software Process Model (CCISPM) is formalized through an object oriented approach. Aiming to automate the CCISPM, the formalization of the process dynamic aspects is begun....

Product configuration system, being a knowledge intensive system, plays an important role in order to realize Mass Customization. The Platformbased generic product configuration tool(PB-GPCT) being developed by Institute of Design for Innovation, Hebei University of Technology. PB-GPCT is a structure-based and domain independent configuration tool. For the realization of PB-GPCT, UML is chosen ...

1 Background It is difficult for many people to make 3D model. Generally, 3D model retrieval is easier than to make it for myself . Many works on CBIR(

Modeling crowd behavior is an important challenge for agent-based simulation. My overall goal is to provide a single computational cognitive mechanism that, when executed by individual agents, would give rise to different crowd behaviors, depending on the perceptions and actions available to each individual. I propose a novel model of crowd behavior, based on Social Comparison Theory (SCT), a p...

One of the problems of systems based on distributed architectures is the communication between applications running on different platforms on a network. The appearance of middleware reduces the complexity in transferring data between heterogeneous platforms of such systems. Up until now, various middleware have been proposed to facilitate the distributed system construction. In the context of c...