This work was done while Han-Bing Yan was a Ph.D. candidate in Tsinghua University. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60673004 and 60333010), the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China (Grant No, 2006CB303106) and the Basic Research Foundation of Tsinghua National Laforatory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), We acknowledge Qi-Xing Huang and Qian-Yi Zhou's help in our work. We would also like to thank Bruno Levy for providing the elephant model.
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