In the ray-tracing community, the surface-area heuristic (SAH) is used as a de facto standard strategy for building high-quality kd-trees. Although widely accepted as the best kd-tree construction method, it is based only on the surface-area measure, which often fails to reflect effectively the rendering characteristics of a given scene. This paper presents new cost metrics that help produce im...

We develop an efficient alternating framework for learning a generalized version of Factorization Machine (gFM) on steaming data with provable guarantees. When the instances are sampled from d dimensional random Gaussian vectors and the target second order coefficient matrix in gFM is of rank k, our algorithm converges linearly, achieves O( ) recovery error after retrieving O(kd log(1/ )) train...

Investigating the roles of synaptogenic adhesion molecules during synapse formation has proven challenging, often due to compensatory functions between additional family members. The synaptic cell adhesion molecules 1-3 (SynCAM1-3) are expressed both pre- and postsynaptically, share highly homologous domains and are synaptogenic when ectopically presented to neurons; yet their endogenous functi...

We develop an efficient alternating framework for learning a generalized version of Factorization Machine (gFM) on steaming data with provable guarantees. When the instances are sampled from d dimensional random Gaussian vectors and the target second order coefficient matrix in gFM is of rank k, our algorithm converges linearly, achieves O(ǫ) recovery error after retrieving O(kd log(1/ǫ)) train...

A Surfels 3D reconstruction method based on improved KD-Tree is put forward, firstly collecting the discrete point cloud data through RGB-D camera, replacing the circular or oval surfel model with hexagonal model for modeling and determining the surfel radius in light of neighborhood distribution of sample points; Moreover, doing inside and outside relations test between one point model and ano...

krabbe disease (kd) is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by severe myelin loss and the presence of globoid bodies in the white matter. the gene for kd (galc) is located on chromosome 14q24.3-q32.1. the disease results from a marked deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme b-galactocereberoside. the symptoms of kd become evident during the first few months of life and...

The simultaneous effect of cavitation and inert gases (argon helium) on the process microorganisms (MO) destruction has been studied. Sporogenic rod-shaped bacteria Bacillus cereus type were used for study. initial microbial load was 104 cells per 1 cm3 test water. volume water study 75 cm3. source phenomenon an ultrasonic generator with a frequency 22 kHz. gas bubbled through system at rate 0....

We explore the use of knowledge distillation (KD) for learning compact and accurate models that enable classification animal behavior from accelerometry data on wearable devices. To this end, we take a deep complex convolutional neural network, known as residual network (ResNet), teacher model. ResNet is specifically designed multivariate time-series classification. to distill datasets into sof...