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CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Locally Orderless Tracking
Locally Orderless Tracking (LOT) is a visual tracking algorithm that automatically estimates the amount of local (dis)order in the object. This lets the tracker specialize in both...
Shaul Oron, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Dan Levi, Shai Avid...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
125views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 8 months ago
Real-world robot navigation amongst deformable obstacles
Abstract-- In this paper, we consider the problem of mobile robots navigating in environments with non-rigid objects. Whereas robots can plan their paths more effectively when they...
Barbara Frank, Cyrill Stachniss, Ruediger Schmeddi...
CG
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Interruptible collision detection for deformable objects
This paper presents an approach to performing time-critical collision detection for deformable objects. The deformable objects are represented by dense meshes and their deformatio...
César Mendoza, Carol O'Sullivan
CGF
2008
121views more  CGF 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Tensor Clustering for Rendering Many-Light Animations
Rendering animations of scenes with deformable objects, camera motion, and complex illumination, including indirect lighting and arbitrary shading, is a long-standing challenge. P...
Milos Hasan, Edgar Velázquez-Armendá...
CGF
2010
210views more  CGF 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Fast and Scalable CPU/GPU Collision Detection for Rigid and Deformable Surfaces
We present a new hybrid CPU/GPU collision detection technique for rigid and deformable objects based on spatial subdivision. Our approach efficiently exploits the massive computat...
Simon Pabst, Artur Koch, Wolfgang Straßer
DAGSTUHL
2006
14 years 7 days 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...
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Detection of Multiple Deformable Objects using PCA-SIFT
In this paper, we address the problem of identifying and localizing multiple instances of highly deformable objects in real-time video data. We present an approach which uses PCA-...
Stefan Zickler, Alexei A. Efros
ICRA
1995
IEEE
167views Robotics» more  ICRA 1995»
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling of Linear Objects Considering Bend, Twist, and Extensional Deformations
A systematic approach to the modeling of deformable ne linear objects is presented. Various deformable objects are manipulated in many manufacturing processes. Deformation of the...
Hidefumi Wakamatsu, Shinichi Hirai, Kazuaki Iwata
ISVC
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Deformable Proximity Queries and Their Application in Mobile Manipulation Planning
Abstract. We describe a proximity query algorithm for the exact minimum distance computation between arbitrarily shaped objects. Special characteristics of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keer...
Marc Gissler, Christian Dornhege, Bernhard Nebel, ...
ICARCV
2002
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  ICARCV 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
A fast method to simulate virtual deformable objects with force feedback
In this paper, we propose solutions to real time simulation and interaction of deformable objects in virtual reality. Firstly, we present LEM - Long Element Method, a method creat...
Kenneth Sundaraj, César Mendoza, Christian ...