This article introduces briefly recent topics concerning the use of virtual human body (VHB)'in medicine. Potential use of VHB as a model of the human body is first described...
This paper introduces a new method for shape registration by matching vector distance functions. The vector distance function representation is more flexible than the conventional...
This paper presents a complete framework for creating a speechenabled avatar from a single image of a person. Our approach uses a generic facial motion model which represents defo...
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...
Deformable models in the \physically-based" paradigm are almost always formulated in an ad-hoc fashion, not related to physical reality { they apply the equations on physics i...
Terrance E. Boult, Samuel D. Fenster, Thomas O'Don...