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HRI
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Toward understanding natural language directions
—Speaking using unconstrained natural language is an intuitive and flexible way for humans to interact with robots. Understanding this kind of linguistic input is challenging be...
Thomas Kollar, Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy, Nicholas ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
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Guiding medical needles using single-point tissue manipulation
— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
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SMA
2009
ACM
219views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2009»
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Log-aesthetic space curve segments
For designing aesthetic surfaces, such as the car bodies, it is very important to use aesthetic curves as characteristic lines. In such curves, the curvature should be monotonical...
Norimasa Yoshida, Ryo Fukuda, Takafumi Saito
ICRA
2008
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
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Monocular range sensing: A non-parametric learning approach
Abstract— Mobile robots rely on the ability to sense the geometry of their local environment in order to avoid obstacles or to explore the surroundings. For this task, dedicated ...
Christian Plagemann, Felix Endres, Juergen Michael...
VR
2008
IEEE
228views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
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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