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SMA
2003
ACM
100views Solid Modeling» more  SMA 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
Free-form deformations via sketching and manipulating scalar fields
This paper presents a novel Scalar-field based Free-Form Deformation (SFFD) technique founded upon general flow constraints and implicit functions. In contrast to the traditiona...
Jing Hua, Hong Qin
DAGSTUHL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Hierarchies Relating Topology and Geometry
Cognitive Vision has to represent, reason and learn about objects in its environment it has to manipulate and react to. There are deformable objects like humans which cannot be des...
Walter G. Kropatsch, Yll Haxhimusa, Pascal Lienhar...
COMPGEOM
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Spheres, Molecules, and Hidden Surface Removal
We devise techniques to manipulate a collection of loosely interpenetrating spheres in threedimensional space. Our study is motivated by the representation and manipulation of mol...
Dan Halperin, Mark H. Overmars
IROS
2006
IEEE
97views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Spatial Reasoning for Real-time Robotic Manipulation
Abstract – Presented in this paper is an approach to realtime spatial reasoning for manipulative robotic tasks. When a service robot is requested to manipulate an object, it shou...
Han-Young Jang, Hadi Moradi, Suyeon Hong, Sukhan L...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Guiding medical needles using single-point tissue manipulation
— 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...