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IROS
2009
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
15 years 11 months ago
Motion planning for active cannulas
— An active cannula is a medical device composed of thin, pre-curved, telescoping tubes that may enable many new surgical procedures. Planning optimal motions for these devices i...
Lisa A. Lyons, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Plug: Virtual Worlds for Millions of People
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Interactive Grid-based Free-Form Shape Modeling
— Geometric shape modeling becomes increasingly complex and resource-demanding task. In this paper we propose a method to leverage the power of Grid to provide users with high-pr...
Anthony S. K. Chong, Konstantin Levinski, Alexei S...
RT
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Bidirectional Importance Sampling for Direct Illumination
Image-based representations for illumination can capture complex real-world lighting that is difficult to represent in other forms. Current importance sampling strategies for ima...
David Burke, Abhijeet Ghosh, Wolfgang Heidrich
IPPS
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
System-Level Modeling of Dynamically Reconfigurable Hardware with SystemC
To cope with the increasing demand for higher computational power and flexibility, dynamically reconfigurable blocks become an important part inside a system-on-chip. Several meth...
Antti Pelkonen, Kostas Masselos, Miroslav Cup&aacu...