Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a 'virtual human'and
places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development. It …

The need to rank and order data is pervasive, and many algorithms are fundamentally
dependent upon sorting and partitioning operations. Prior to this work, GPU stream …

This poster presents efficient strategies for sorting large sequences of fixed-length keys (and
values) using GPGPU stream processors. Compared to the state-of-the-art, our radix sorting …

This paper presents an algorithm for fast sorting of large lists using modern GPUs. The
method achieves high speed by efficiently utilizing the parallelism of the GPU throughout the …

Stochastic transparency provides a unified approach to order-independent transparency,
anti-aliasing, and deep shadow maps. It augments screen-door transparency using a …

Whilst the Deep Shadow Maps algorithm for accelerating the rendering of volumetric
shadows is a fitting solution for offline applications, it can consume an unbounded amount of …

Physically-based hair and fur rendering is crucial for visual realism. One of the key effects is
global illumination, involving light bouncing between different fibers. This is very time …

BACKGROUND This relates generally to graphics processing and particu larly to shadowing
dynamic Volumetric media. Dynamic volumetric media are objects that have variable …

This paper presents a method for quickly constructing a high-quality approximate visibility
function for high frequency semi-transparent geometry such as hair. We can then reconstruct …

We present an interactive algorithm for hair rendering and appearance editing under
complex environment lighting represented as spherical radial basis functions (SRBFs). Our …