Since the inception of the personal computer, the interface presented to users has been defined by the monitor screen, keyboard, and mouse, and by the framework of the desktop metaphor. It is very different from a physical desktop which has a large horizontal surface, allows paper documents to be arranged, browsed, and annotated, and is controlled via continuous movements with both hands. The d...

Natural actor-critics form a popular class of policy search algorithms for finding locally optimal policies for Markov decision processes. In this paper we address a drawback of natural actor-critics that limits their real-world applicability—their lack of safety guarantees. We present a principled algorithm for performing natural gradient descent over a constrained domain. In the context of re...

Recent studies suggest that projected clusters with extremely low dimensionality exist in many real datasets. A number of projected clustering algorithms have been proposed in the past several years, but few can identify clusters with dimensionality lower than 10% of the total number of dimensions, which are commonly found in some real datasets such as gene expression profiles. In this paper we...

Projected contours enable Euler diagrams to scale better. They enable the representation of information using less syntax and can therefore increase visual clarity. Here informal reasoning rules are given that allow the transformation of spider diagrams with respect to projected contours. 1 Spider diagrams and projected contours A spider diagram [3] is an Euler diagram with plane trees (spiders...

The poor practical behavior of (1)-(2) has been known for many years. If the level sets of f resemble long valleys, the sequence {xk} displays a typical zig-zagging trajectory and the speed of convergence is very slow. In the simplest case, in which f is a strictly convex quadratic, the method converges to the solution with a Q-linear rate of convergence whose factor tends to 1 when the conditi...

A common and simple way to create a bootleg video is to simply record a movie from the theater screen. Because the recorded video is not generally of high quality, it is usually easy to visually detect such recordings. However, given the wide variety of video content and film-making styles, automatic detection is less straight-forward. We describe an automatic technique for detecting a video th...

Projected index computed tomography (PICT) is a new imaging technique that provides a computed reconstruction of the index of refraction of a sample. PICT makes use of data from standard optical coherence tomography images taken from several view angles to determine a mapping of the refractive indices of the sample. A rectilinear propagation model is assumed, so the data are understood to be re...

We present a flexible and highly efficient hardware-assisted volume renderer grounded on the original Projected Tetrahedra (PT) algorithm. Unlike recent similar approaches, our method is exclusively based on the rasterization of simple geometric primitives and takes full advantage of graphics hardware. Both vertex and geometry shaders are used to compute the tetrahedral projection, while the vo...

in a seismic change in the touch-screen business. Projected capacitive (pro-cap), the touch technology used in the iPhone touch screen, has become the first choice for many small-to-medium (<10-in.) touch-equipped products now in development. The technology is not just Apple-trendy but incorporates some of the best characteristics of competing touch technologies. The three most important advant...