—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 ...
— 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...
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...
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...
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...