On cognitive informatics

Y Wang - Proceedings First IEEE International Conference on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information is the third essence in modeling the natural world. This paper attempts to explore
an emerging discipline know as cognitive informatics. Cognitive Informatics is a profound …

Develo** a fast and accurate collision detection strategy for crane-lift path planning in high-rise modular integrated construction

A Zhu, Z Zhang, W Pan - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
Crane-lift path planning (CLPP) ensures the safe and efficient installation of hefty modules in
high-rise modular integrated construction (MiC). The implementation of CLPP requires …

Method for non-planar specular reflections in hybrid ray tracing

R Bakalash, R Weitzman, E Haviv - US Patent 10,699,468, 2020 - Google Patents
Related US Application Data (63) Continuation-in-part of application No. 16/444,431, filed
on Jun. 18, 2019, and a continuation-in-part of application No. 16/444,464, filed on Jun. 18 …

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

LT Peterson - US Patent 9,607,426, 2017 - Google Patents
Sabino, Thales Luis, et al.“A hybrid GPU rasterized and ray traced rendering pipeline for real
time rendering of per pixel effects.” Entertainment Computing ICEC 2012. Springer Berlin …

Rendering system and method

W Lee, H Chung, Y Shin, S Woo, S Hwang - US Patent 10,198,851, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A rendering system includes: a ray generator configured to generate a ray;
a memory chip configured to store informa tion about objects in three-dimensional (3D) …

Robust multi-pedestrian tracking in thermal-visible surveillance videos

A Leykin, R Hammoud - 2006 Conference on Computer Vision …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we introduce a system to track pedestrians using a combined input from RGB
and thermal cameras. Two major contributions are presented here. First is the novel model …

Ray accelerator: Efficient and flexible ray tracing on a heterogeneous architecture

R Barringer, M Andersson… - Computer Graphics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a hybrid ray tracing system, where the work is divided between the CPU cores
and the GPU in an integrated chip, and communication occurs via shared memory. Rays are …

Method and apparatus for hybrid rendering

W Lee, Y Shin, J Lee, S Hwang - US Patent 9,761,039, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A hybrid rendering method includes subdividing a two dimensional (2D)
frame into virtual tiles (hereinafter, referred to as' tiles'); classifying the tiles into first tiles …

Specular reflections in hybrid ray tracing

R Bakalash, R Weitzman - US Patent 10,950,030, 2021 - Google Patents
The present invention teaches a real-time hybrid ray tracing method for non-planar specular
reflections. The non-planar surface is handled by multiple small planar surfaces. Advan tage …

Towards a heuristic based real time hybrid rendering a strategy to improve real time rendering quality using heuristics and ray tracing

P Andrade, T Sabino, E Clua - 2014 International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid rendering combines the speed of raster-based rendering with the photorealism of ray
trace rendering in order to achieve both speed and visual quality for interactive applications …