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Autonomous robots are increasingly prevalent in our society, emerging in medical care, transportation vehicles, and home assistance. These robots rely on motion planning and collision detection to identify a sequence of movements allowing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lufei Liu , Liwei Xue , Youssef Mohammed , Jocelyn Zhao , Yuan Hsi Chou , Tor M. Aamodt

A recent trend in real-time rendering is the utilization of the new hardware ray tracing capabilities. Often, usage of a distance field representation is proposed as an alternative when hardware ray tracing is deemed too costly, and the two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Pieterjan Bartels , Takahiro Harada

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

This paper presents a set of simple and intuitive robot collision detection algorithms that show substantial scaling improvements for high geometric complexity and large numbers of collision queries by leveraging hardware-accelerated ray…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sizhe Sui , Luis Sentis , Andrew Bylard

Currently, deep neural networks (DNNs)-based models have drawn enormous attention and have been utilized to different domains widely. However, due to the data-driven nature, the DNN models may generate unsatisfying performance on the small…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Kai Liu , Lei Gao , Ling Guan

Clustering is a fundamental task in machine learning. One of the most successful and broadly used algorithms is DBSCAN, a density-based clustering algorithm. DBSCAN requires $\epsilon$-nearest neighbor graphs of the input dataset, which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Youguang Chen , William Ruys , George Biros

DBSCAN is a typically used clustering algorithm due to its clustering ability for arbitrarily-shaped clusters and its robustness to outliers. Generally, the complexity of DBSCAN is O(n^2) in the worst case, and it practically becomes more…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Thapana Boonchoo , Xiang Ao , Qing He

This paper presents a realization of the approach to spatial 3D stereo of visualization of 3D images with use parallel Graphics processing unit (GPU). The experiments of realization of synthesis of images of a 3D stage by a method of trace…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , S. A. Zori

Since the discovery of RRATs, interest in single pulse radio searches has increased dramatically. Due to the large data volumes generated by these searches, especially in planned surveys for future radio telescopes, such searches have to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Alessio Magro

Driven by deep learning, there has been a surge of specialized processors for matrix multiplication, referred to as TensorCore Units (TCUs). These TCUs are capable of performing matrix multiplications on small matrices (usually 4x4 or…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Abdul Dakkak , Cheng Li , Isaac Gelado , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

Over the last decade, advances in GPU hardware have been driven in large part by the demands of real-time graphics, culminating in dedicated hardware ray tracing cores (RT cores). These units accelerate ray scene intersection queries…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rafael Padilla , Kyle Webster , Austin Kim

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

The identification, and subsequent discovery, of fast radio transients through blind-search surveys requires a large amount of processing power, in worst cases scaling as $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$. For this reason, survey data are generally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Alessio Magro , Aris Karastergiou , Stefano Salvini , Benjamin Mort , Fred Dulwich , Kristian Zarb Adami

We design and implement parallel prefix sum (scan) algorithms using Ascend AI accelerators. Ascend accelerators feature specialized computing units: the cube units for efficient matrix multiplication and the vector units for optimized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bartłomiej Wróblewski , Gioele Gottardo , Anastasios Zouzias

DBSCAN is a fundamental spatial clustering algorithm with numerous practical applications. However, a bottleneck of the algorithm is in the worst case, the run time complexity is $O(n^2)$. To address this limitation, we propose a new…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaogang Huang , Tiefeng Ma , Conan Liu , Shuangzhe Liu

Graph drawing with spring embedders employs a V x V computation phase over the graph's vertex set to compute repulsive forces. Here, the efficacy of forces diminishes with distance: a vertex can effectively only influence other vertices in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Stefan Zellmann , Martin Weier , Ingo Wald

Recent works demonstrate the advantages of hardware rasterization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in forward-pass rendering through fast GPU-optimized graphics and fixed memory footprint. However, extending these benefits to backward-pass…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yitian Yuan , Qianyue He

DBSCAN is a classical density-based clustering procedure with tremendous practical relevance. However, DBSCAN implicitly needs to compute the empirical density for each sample point, leading to a quadratic worst-case time complexity, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jennifer Jang , Heinrich Jiang

DBSCAN is a popular density-based clustering algorithm. It computes the $\epsilon$-neighborhood graph of a dataset and uses the connected components of the high-degree nodes to decide the clusters. However, the full neighborhood graph may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Heinrich Jiang , Jennifer Jang , Jakub Łącki

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has become one of the most important neural rendering algorithms. GS represents 3D scenes using Gaussian components with trainable color and opacity. This representation achieves high-quality renderings with fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Krzysztof Byrski , Grzegorz Wilczyński , Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Piotr Borycki , Dawid Baran , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek