Abstract: In this paper, we propose an efficient compression scheme for focal stack images (FoSIs) based on a new basis-quadtree representation. In the new basis-quadtree representation, FoSIs are ...

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where in general, we need to validate that the type arguments satisfy any requirements on the type parameters. Our dataflow system isn't currently designed to track mutable reference types, so the ...

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