— This paper presents a robust model-based visual tracking algorithm that can give accurate 3D pose of a rigid object. Our tracking algorithm uses an incremental pose update sche...
Youngrock Yoon, Akio Kosaka, Jae Byung Park, Avina...
— The work presented in this paper addresses the problem of the stitching task in laparoscopic surgery using a circular needle and a conventional 4 DOFs needle-holder. This task ...
Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, Michel de Mathel...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a three-dimensional (3D) measurement method of objects in aquatic environments whose refractive indices or boundary shape of the refraction ar...
Abstract— This work addresses the capability to use concentration gridmaps to locate a static gas source. In previous works it was found that depending on the shape of the mapped...
Achim J. Lilienthal, Felix Streichert, Andreas Zel...
— 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...