Manipulating small objects such as needles, screws or plates inside the human body during minimally invasive surgery can be very difficult for less experienced surgeons, due to the...
Abstract. Accurate patient registration and referencing is a key element in navigated surgery. Unfortunately all existing methods are either invasive or very time consuming. In thi...
Christian Wengert, Philippe C. Cattin, John M. Duf...
A local shape feature has an advantage in dealing with deformable or articulated 3D models. We evaluate the performance of our local, 2D visual features and their integration meth...
In this paper we present a system to robustly estimate the 3D position of a human head. Before the face model is positioned in the initial frame, it is adapted to the 3D scan of t...
Axel Weissenfeld, Onay Urfalioglu, Kang Liu, J&oum...
Occlusion is a significant challenge for many tracking algorithms. Most current methods can track through transient occlusion, but cannot handle significant extended occlusion whe...
Neel Joshi, Shai Avidan, Wojciech Matusik, David J...