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IJRR
2000
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13 years 6 months ago
Reconstructing the Shape of a Deformable Membrane from Image Data
In this paper, we study the problem of determining a mathematical description of the surface defined by the shape of a membrane based on an image of it and present an algorithm fo...
Nicola J. Ferrier, Roger W. Brockett
ICMI
2003
Springer
99views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2003»
13 years 11 months ago
Using an autonomous cube for basic navigation and input
This paper presents a low-cost and practical approach to achieve basic input using a tactile cube-shaped object, augmented with a set of sensors, processor, batteries and wireless...
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nicolas Villar, Albrecht Sc...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Tactile Sensing of Edge Direction of an Object with a Soft Fingertip Contact
— We propose a new method of tactile sensing for a fingertip of robotic hand. Using a simple fingertip with soft surface cover and a six-axis force/torque sensor, developed is ...
Kouji Murakami, Tsutomu Hasegawa
AR
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Biomimetic Tactile Sensor Array
The performance of robotic and prosthetic hands in unstructured environments is severely limited by their having little or no tactile information compared to the rich tactile feed...
Nicholas Wettels, Veronica J. Santos, Roland S. Jo...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
3D Occlusion Inference from Silhouette Cues
We consider the problem of detecting and accounting for the presence of occluders in a 3D scene based on silhouette cues in video streams obtained from multiple, calibrated views....
Jean-Sébastien Franco, Li Guan, Marc Pollef...