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IROS
2006
IEEE
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16 years 15 days ago
Toward Active Cannulas: Miniature Snake-Like Surgical Robots
— We have developed a new class of continuously flexible snake-like robots, called active cannulas, that consist of several telescoping pre-curved superelastic tubes. The device...
Robert J. Webster III, Allison M. Okamura, Noah J....
ACCV
2006
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Inverse Volume Rendering Approach to 3D Reconstruction from Multiple Images
This paper presents a method of image-based 3D modeling for intricately-shaped objects, such as a fur, tree leaves and human hair. We formulate the imaging process of these small g...
Shuntaro Yamazaki, Masaaki Mochimaru, Takeo Kanade
3DIM
2005
IEEE
16 years 3 days ago
Efficient Photometric Stereo Technique for Three-Dimensional Surfaces with Unknown BRDF
The present paper focuses on efficient inverse rendering using a Photometric Stereo technique for realistic surfaces. The technique primarily assumes the Lambertian reflection mod...
Li Shen, Takashi Machida, Haruo Takemura
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Quality Mesh Generation for Molecular Skin Surfaces Using Restricted Union of Balls
Quality surface meshes for molecular models are desirable in the studies of protein shapes and functionalities. However, there is still no robust software that is capable to gener...
Ho-Lun Cheng, Xinwei Shi
CVBIA
2005
Springer
16 years 23 hour ago
Simultaneous Segmentation and Motion Recovery in 3D Cardiac Image Analysis
Accurate and robust estimation of the three-dimensional left ventricular geometry and deformation has important clinical implications for better diagnosis and understanding of isch...
Ling Zhuang, Huafeng Liu, Wei Chen, Hujun Bao, Pen...