Measured bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data have been used to represent complex interaction between lights and surface materials for photorealistic rendering. However, their massive size makes it hard to adopt them in practical rendering applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive method for B-spline volume representation of measured BRDF data. It basically perf...

Coherence computed from common reference montages inextricably confounds true coherence with power and phase at the recording and reference electrodes. Direct measurement of coherence requires reference-free EEG data, such as data from EEG scalp current densities (SCDs), which estimate the potential gradient perpendicular to the scalp. Perrin et al. (1989) presented a method for computing SCDs ...

introduction studies about the health effects of long-term average exposure to outdoor air pollution have played an important role in the recent health impact assessments. exposure assessment for epidemiological studies of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution remains a difficult challenge because of substantial small-scale spatial variation. current approaches for assessing intra-urban ai...

An algorithmic approach to degree reduction of interval B-spline curve is presented in this paper. The curves that are useful in geometric modeling should have a relatively smooth shape and should be intuitively connected with the path of the sequence of control points. One family of curves satisfying this requirement is represented by the B-spline curves. The four fixed Kharitonov's polynomial...

In this paper we present a new method for the model of interpolation sweep surfaces by the C-continuous generalized quasicubic interpolation spline. Once given some key position, orientation and some points which are passed through by the spine and initial cross-section curves, the corresponding sweep surface can be constructed by the introduced spline function without calculating control point...

We present a general framework for a higher-order spline level-set (HLS) method and apply this to bio-molecule surfaces construction. Starting from a first order energy functional, we obtain a general level set formulation of geometric partial differential equation, and provide an efficient approach to solve this partial differential equation using a C(2) spline basis. We also present a fast cu...

The self-controlled case series (SCCS) method is an alternative to study designs such as cohort and case control methods and is used to investigate potential associations between the timing of vaccine or other drug exposures and adverse events. It requires information only on cases, individuals who have experienced the adverse event at least once, and automatically controls all fixed confoundin...

S For independent data, it is well known that kernel methods and spline methods are essentially asymptotically equivalent (Silverman, 1984). However, recent work of Welsh et al. (2002) shows that the same is not true for clustered/longitudinal data. Splines and conventional kernels are different in localness and ability to account for the within-cluster correlation. We show that a smoothi...

We propose a learning approach to designing fuzzy controllers based on the B-spline model. Unlike other normalised parameterised set functions for deening fuzzy sets, B-spline basis functions do not necessarily span from membership values zero to one, but possess the property \partition of unity". B-spline basis functions can be automatically determined after each input is partitioned. Learning...