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MVA
2002
146views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2002»
15 years 3 months ago
Virtual Human Body in Medicine- Modeling, Navigation and Fusion with Real Body
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...
Jun-ichiro Toriwaki
CVPR
2007
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Shape Representation and Registration using Vector Distance Functions
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...
Hossam E. Abd El Munim, Aly A. Farag
VR
2008
IEEE
228views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Creating a Speech Enabled Avatar from a Single Photograph
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...
Dmitri Bitouk, Shree K. Nayar
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— 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...
NSF
1994
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Physics in a Fantasy World vs. Robust Statistical Estimation
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...