In surgical simulations, the two most popular approaches to model soft tissues are Finite Element Method (FEM) and Mass-Spring System (MSS). Main advantages of FEM are accuracy and...
We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
We present practical algorithms for accelerating geometric queries on models made of NURBS surfaces using programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We provide a generalized f...
Efficient and accurate fitting of Active Appearance
Models (AAM) is a key requirement for many applications.
The most efficient fitting algorithm today is Inverse Compositional
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Brian Amberg (University of Basel), Andrew Blake (...
Nonrigid medical image registration has many potentially applications for diagnosis and monitoring disease progression in the clinic, and is very hot in computational anatomy. How...