Multi-resolution Meshes Deformation Based on Pyramid Coordinates
In this paper, we present a technique for multi-resolution meshes deformation based on pyramid coordinates. Pyramid coordinates are rotation invariant, and can achieve low distortion editing for large deformations. Their drawback is that the reconstruction process is nonlinear and time consuming especially for large meshes. In order to decrease the computational cost, the proposed method reduces the number of vertices involved in the deformation. We first construct a simplified mesh using a modified CPM algorithm; then edit the simplified meshes by pyramid coordinates based mesh detail presentation; finally, series of details are added to the deformed simplified mesh. Our algorithm can generate natural looking deformations more efficiently than the original pyramid coordinates method.

title: A Blind Watermarking of 3D Triangular Meshes Using Geometry Image

title: Mesh Editing in ROI with Dual Laplacian

title: An Energy-Minimizing Mesh Parameterization
abstract: In this paper, we propose a new energy-minimizing mesh parameterization method, which linearly combines two new energies EQ and EM. It not only avoids triangles overlap in the parameter domain, but also is invariant under rotation, translation and scale transformations. We first parameterize the original 3D mesh to the parameter plane by using the energy-minimizing parameterization, and get the optimal effect by optimizing the weights wij gradually. Experimental results indicate that this optimized energy-minimizing method has low distortion and good stability.

title: Region-of-interest coding of 3D mesh based on wavelet transform
abstract: A scheme for the region of interest (ROI) coding of 3D meshes is proposed for the first time. The ROI is encoded with higher fidelity than the rest region, and the "priority" of ROI relative to the rest region (background, BG) can be specified by encoder or decoder (user). Wavelet transform is used on 3D mesh and zerotrees are adopted to organize the coefficients. The wavelet coefficients of ROI are scaled up and encoded with a modified set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) algorithm. In additional, a fast algorithm is proposed for creating the ROI mask. Once the quality of reconstructed ROI becomes high enough, the transmission can be intermitted and much transmission bandwidth and storage space will be saved consequently.

title: Boundary Constrained Manifold Unfolding

title: Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Intelligent Data Preparation

title: Prediction and Analysis of Landslide Based on Fuzzy Theory
abstract: There are internal and external reasons for the occurrence of landslip. Through the analysis on a large number of investigation materials of landslip, the growth inducements of landslip are found out. By use of theories in blur maths, we conduct order arrangement of these inducements in accordance their significance, put forward blur judgment rule of landslip estimation and present applicable examples.

title: Detecting patterns of change using enhanced parallel coordinates visualization
abstract: Analyzing data to find trends, correlations, and stable patterns is an important problem for many industrial applications. We propose a new technique based on parallel coordinates visualization. Previous work on parallel coordinates method has shown that they are effective only when variables that are correlated and/or show similar patterns are displayed adjacently. Although current parallel coordinates tools allow the user to manually rearrange the order of variables, this process is very time-consuming when the number of variables is large. Automated assistance is needed. We propose an edit-distance based technique to rearrange variables so that interesting patterns can be easily detected. Our system, V-Miner, includes both automated methods for visualizing common patterns and a query tool that enables the user to describe specific target patterns to be mined/displayed by the system. Following an overview of the system, a case study is presented to explain how Motorola engineers have used V-Miner to identify significant patterns in their product test and design data.

title: ECO: an empirical-based compilation and optimization system
abstract: In this paper, we describe a compilation system that automates much of the process of performance tuning that is currently done manually by application programmers interested in high performance. Due to the growing complexity of accurate performance prediction, our system incorporates empirical techniques to execute variants of code segments with representative data on the target architecture. In this paper, we discuss how empirical techniques and performance modeling can be effectively combined. We also discuss the role of historical information from prior runs, and programmer specifications supporting run-time adaptation. These techniques can be employed to alleviate some of the performance problems that lead to inefficiencies in key applications today: register pressure, cache conflict misses, and the trade-off between synchronization, parallelism and locality in SMPs.

title: A Learning Process Using SVMs for Multi-agents Decision Classification
abstract: In order to resolve decision classification problem in multiple agents system, this paper first introduces the architecture of multiple agents system. It then proposes a support vector machines based assessment approach, which has the ability to learn the rules form previous assessment results from domain experts. Finally, the experiment are conducted on the artificially dataset to illustrate how the proposed works, and the results show the proposed method has effective learning ability for decision classification problems.