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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Kinematics and calibration of active cannulas
Abstract— Active cannulas are remotely actuated thin continuum robots with the potential to traverse narrow and winding environments without relying on “guiding” environmenta...
Robert J. Webster III, Joseph M. Romano, Noah J. C...
CVPR
1997
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Representation Of Objects In A Volumetric Frequency Domain With Application To Face Recognition
A novel method for representing 3-D objects that unifies viewer and model centered object representations is presented. A unified 3-D frequency-domain representation (called Volum...
Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Dibyendu Nandy
CVPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Wavelet-Based Hierarchical Surface Approximation from Height Fields
This paper presents a novel hierarchical approach to triangular mesh generation from height fields. A waveletbased multiresolution analysis technique is used to estimate local sha...
Sang-Mook Lee, Daniel L. Schmoldt
ECCV
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Depth-Encoded Hough Voting for joint object detection and shape recovery
Detecting objects, estimating their pose and recovering 3D shape information is a critical problem in many vision and robotics applications. This paper addresses the above needs by...
AUTOMATICA
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity for mobile sensor networks
The ability of a robot team to reconfigure itself is useful in many applications: for metamorphic robots to change shape, for swarm motion towards a goal, for biological systems to...
Peng Yang, Randy A. Freeman, G. J. Gordon, Kevin M...