— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
The problem of automatic recognition of human activities is among the most important and challenging open areas of research in Computer Vision. This paper presents a new approach ...
Arcangelo Distante, I. Gnoni, Marco Leo, Paolo Spa...
Video-based recognition and prediction of a temporally extended activity can benefit from a detailed description of high-level expectations about the activity. Stochastic grammars...
Abstract. Real time and markerless motion capture is an active research area, due to applications in human-computer interactions, for example. A large part of the existing markerle...
This paper introduces a new model of deformable surfaces designed for animation, which we call active implicit surfaces. The underlying idea is to animate a potential field define...