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MICCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Tracking Deformable Soft Tissue in Minimally Invasive Surgery
The use of vision based algorithms in minimally invasive surgery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its potential in providing in situ 3D tissue deformation...
Peter Mountney, Benny P. L. Lo, Surapa Thiemjarus,...
DAGM
2009
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
An Efficient Linear Method for the Estimation of Ego-Motion from Optical Flow
Abstract. Approaches to visual navigation, e.g. used in robotics, require computationally efficient, numerically stable, and robust methods for the estimation of ego-motion. One of...
Florian Raudies, Heiko Neumann
ALIFE
2002
13 years 9 months ago
Bioinspired Engineering of Exploration Systems for NASA and DoD
A new approach called bioinspired engineering of exploration systems (BEES) and its value for solving pressing NASA and DoD needs are described. Insects (for example honeybees and ...
Sarita Thakoor, Javaan S. Chahl, Mandyam V. Sriniv...
AAAI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Predictive Exploration for Autonomous Science
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems’ efficiency with onboa...
David R. Thompson
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Efficient physics-based planning: sampling search via non-deterministic tactics and skills
Motion planning for mobile agents, such as robots, acting in the physical world is a challenging task, which traditionally concerns safe obstacle avoidance. We are interested in p...
Stefan Zickler, Manuela M. Veloso