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MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Determining Epicardial Surface Motion Using Elastic Registration: Towards Virtual Reality Guidance of Minimally Invasive Cardiac
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is performed on the beating heart, through inter-costal ports. The two major limitations of these procedures are: selecting port locations for op...
Marcin Wierzbicki, Terry M. Peters
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Cooperative Behavior Acquisition for Mobile Robots in Dynamically Changing Real Worlds Via Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning a
In this paper, we first discuss the meaning of physical embodiment and the complexity of the environment in the context of multi-agent learning. We then propose a vision-based rei...
Minoru Asada, Eiji Uchibe, Koh Hosoda
VRCAI
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A web-based system for interactive visualization of scientific concepts
ion visualization is valuable in learning abstract ideas and new concepts. The existing technology for publishing online papers is lacking in terms of user interaction as well as ...
Ker Sin Neo, Qingping Lin, Robert K. L. Gay
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
MICCAI
2003
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Cardiac Endoscopy Enhanced by Dynamic Organ Modeling for Minimally-Invasive Surgery Guidance
Abstract. The development of a 3D image guidance environment will significantly enhance the performance of minimally invasive robotically assisted cardiac surgery. We have previous...
Stanislaw Szpala, Gerard Guiraudon, Terry M. Peter...