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ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Model-based Motion Estimation of Elastic Surfaces for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
— In order to assist surgeons during surgery on moving organs, e.g. minimally invasive beating heart bypass surgery, a master-slave system which synchronizes surgical instruments...
Thomas Bader, Alexander Wiedemann, Kathrin Roberts...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Accurate Motion Estimation and High-Precision 3D Reconstruction by Sensor Fusion
—The CCD camera and the 2D laser range finder are widely used for motion estimation and 3D reconstruction. With their own strengths and weaknesses, low-level fusion of these two ...
Yunsu Bok, Youngbae Hwang, In-So Kweon
ICIP
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Outer-Layer Based Tracking using Entropy as a Similarity Measure
Tracking can be achieved using region active contours based on homogeneity models (intensity, motion...). However the model complexity necessary to achieve a given accuracy might ...
Vincent Garcia, Sylvain Boltz, Eric Debreuve, Mich...
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Hash-Based Motion Modeling in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding
Generally, Distributed video coding (DVC) schemes perform motion estimation at the decoder side, without the current frame being available. In order to generate the side-informati...
Marco Tagliasacchi, Stefano Tubaro
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A New Rotation Search for Dependent Rate-Distortion Optimization in Video Coding
We present a novel search algorithm which is suitable for optimizing functions with a high-dimensional discrete-valued parameter vector. The algorithm is designed to find a funct...
Tuukka Toivonen, Loren Merritt, Ville Ojansivu, Ja...
DSD
2007
IEEE
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An Efficient Hardware Architecture for Quarter-Pixel Accurate H.264 Motion Estimation
In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture for real-time implementation of quarter-pixel accurate variable block size motion estimation for H.264 / MPEG4 Part 10...
Serkan Oktem, Ilker Hamzaoglu
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Motion estimation using multiple non-overlapping cameras for small unmanned aerial vehicles
— An imaging sensor made of multiple light-weight non-overlapping cameras is an effective sensor for a small unmanned aerial vehicle that has strong payload limitation. This pape...
Jun-Sik Kim, Myung Hwangbo, Takeo Kanade
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic structure from motion based on nonlinear adaptive observers
Structure and motion estimation from long image sequences is a an important and difficult problem in computer vision. We propose a novel approach based on nonlinear and adaptive ...
Ola Dahl, Anders Heyden
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Denoising intra-coded moving pictures using motion estimation and pixel shift
This paper presents a denoising method of intra-coded pictures using motion estimation and pixel shift. Firstly, we show that pixel-aligned mixture of distorted images which are s...
Jiro Katto, Junya Suzuki, Shusei Itagaki, Shinichi...
FGR
2008
IEEE
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On the sustained tracking of human motion
In this paper, we propose an algorithm for sustained tracking of humans, where we combine frame-to-frame articulated motion estimation with a per-frame body detection algorithm. T...
Yaser Sheikh, Ankur Datta, Takeo Kanade