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2009

Ball Joints for Marker-less Human Motion Capture

In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),, December 2009 (inproceedings)

2009

Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Ball Joints for Marker-less Human Motion Capture In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),, December 2009 (inproceedings)

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Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point Trajectories

Ahmad, A., Del Bue, A., Lima, P.

In pages: 1-3, October 2009 (inproceedings)

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This work deals with a background subtraction algorithm for a fish-eye lens camera having 3 degrees of freedom, 2 in translation and 1 in rotation. The core assumption in this algorithm is that the background is considered to be composed of a dominant static plane in the world frame. The novelty lies in developing a rank-constraint based background subtraction for equidistant projection model, a property of the fish-eye lens. A detail simulation result is presented to support the hypotheses explained in this paper.

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Ahmad, A., Del Bue, A., Lima, P. Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point Trajectories In pages: 1-3, October 2009 (inproceedings)

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Parametric Modeling of the Beating Heart with Respiratory Motion Extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images

Pons-Moll, G., Crosas, C., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D.

In IEEE Computers in Cardiology (CINC), September 2009 (inproceedings)

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Pons-Moll, G., Crosas, C., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. Parametric Modeling of the Beating Heart with Respiratory Motion Extracted from Magnetic Resonance Images In IEEE Computers in Cardiology (CINC), September 2009 (inproceedings)

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Computer cursor control by motor cortical signals in humans with tetraplegia

Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

In 7th Asian Control Conference, ASCC09, pages: 988-993, Hong Kong, China, August 2009 (inproceedings)

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Kim, S., Simeral, J. D., Hochberg, L. R., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Computer cursor control by motor cortical signals in humans with tetraplegia In 7th Asian Control Conference, ASCC09, pages: 988-993, Hong Kong, China, August 2009 (inproceedings)

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ISocRob-MSL 2009 Team Description Paper for Middle Sized League

Lima, P., Santos, J., Estilita, J., Barbosa, M., Ahmad, A., Carreira, J.

13th Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2009, July 2009 (techreport)

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This paper describes the status of the ISocRob MSL roboticsoccer team as required by the RoboCup 2009 qualiﬁcation procedures.Since its previous participation in RoboCup, the ISocRob team has car-ried out signiﬁcant developments in various topics, the most relevantof which are presented here. These include self-localization, 3D objecttracking and cooperative object localization, motion control and rela-tional behaviors. A brief description of the hardware of the ISocRobrobots and of the software architecture adopted by the team is also in-cluded.

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Lima, P., Santos, J., Estilita, J., Barbosa, M., Ahmad, A., Carreira, J. ISocRob-MSL 2009 Team Description Paper for Middle Sized League 13th Annual RoboCup International Symposium 2009, July 2009 (techreport)

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Denoising Fluorescence Endoscopy: A Motion-Compensated Temporal Recursive Video Filter with an Optimal Minimum Mean Square Error Parametrization

Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Behrens, A., Gross, S., Aach, T.

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Fluorescence endoscopy is an emerging technique for the detection of bladder cancer. A marker substance is brought into the patient's bladder which accumulates at cancer tissue. If a suitable narrow band light source is used for illumination, a red fluorescence of the marker substance is observable. Because of the low fluorescence photon count and because of the narrow band light source, only a small amount of light is detected by the camera's CCD sensor. This, in turn, leads to strong noise in the recorded video sequence. To overcome this problem, we apply a temporal recursive filter to the video sequence. The derivation of a filter function is presented, which leads to an optimal filter in the minimum mean square error sense. The algorithm is implemented as plug-in for the real-time capable clinical demonstrator platform RealTimeFrame and it is capable to process color videos with a resolution of 768times576 pixels at 50 frames per second.

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Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Behrens, A., Gross, S., Aach, T. Denoising Fluorescence Endoscopy: A Motion-Compensated Temporal Recursive Video Filter with an Optimal Minimum Mean Square Error Parametrization

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Fields of Experts

Roth, S., Black, M. J.

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 82(2):205-29, April 2009 (article)

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We develop a framework for learning generic, expressive image priors that capture the statistics of natural scenes and can be used for a variety of machine vision tasks. The approach provides a practical method for learning high-order Markov random field (MRF) models with potential functions that extend over large pixel neighborhoods. These clique potentials are modeled using the Product-of-Experts framework that uses non-linear functions of many linear filter responses. In contrast to previous MRF approaches all parameters, including the linear filters themselves, are learned from training data. We demonstrate the capabilities of this Field-of-Experts model with two example applications, image denoising and image inpainting, which are implemented using a simple, approximate inference scheme. While the model is trained on a generic image database and is not tuned toward a specific application, we obtain results that compete with specialized techniques.

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Roth, S., Black, M. J. Fields of Experts International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 82(2):205-29, April 2009 (article)

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Classification of colon polyps in NBI endoscopy using vascularization features

Stehle, T., Auer, R., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T., Winograd, R., Trautwein, C., Tischendorf, J.

In Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 7260, (Editors: N. Karssemeijer and M. L. Giger), SPIE, February 2009 (inproceedings)

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The evolution of colon cancer starts with colon polyps. There are two different types of colon polyps, namely hyperplasias and adenomas. Hyperplasias are benign polyps which are known not to evolve into cancer and, therefore, do not need to be removed. By contrast, adenomas have a strong tendency to become malignant. Therefore, they have to be removed immediately via polypectomy. For this reason, a method to differentiate reliably adenomas from hyperplasias during a preventive medical endoscopy of the colon (colonoscopy) is highly desirable. A recent study has shown that it is possible to distinguish both types of polyps visually by means of their vascularization. Adenomas exhibit a large amount of blood vessel capillaries on their surface whereas hyperplasias show only few of them. In this paper, we show the feasibility of computer-based classification of colon polyps using vascularization features. The proposed classification algorithm consists of several steps: For the critical part of vessel segmentation, we implemented and compared two segmentation algorithms. After a skeletonization of the detected blood vessel candidates, we used the results as seed points for the Fast Marching algorithm which is used to segment the whole vessel lumen. Subsequently, features are computed from this segmentation which are then used to classify the polyps. In leave-one-out tests on our polyp database (56 polyps), we achieve a correct classification rate of approximately 90%.

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Stehle, T., Auer, R., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T., Winograd, R., Trautwein, C., Tischendorf, J. Classification of colon polyps in NBI endoscopy using vascularization features In Medical Imaging 2009: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 7260, (Editors: N. Karssemeijer and M. L. Giger), SPIE, February 2009 (inproceedings)

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One-shot scanning using de bruijn spaced grids

Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G.

In Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on, pages: 1786-1792, IEEE, 2009 (inproceedings)

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In this paper we present a new one-shot method to reconstruct the shape of dynamic 3D objects and scenes based on active illumination. In common with other related prior-art methods, a static grid pattern is projected onto the scene, a video sequence of the illuminated scene is captured, a shape estimate is produced independently for each video frame, and the one-shot property is realized at the expense of space resolution. The main challenge in grid-based one-shot methods is to engineer the pattern and algorithms so that the correspondence between pattern grid points and their images can be established very fast and without uncertainty. We present an efficient one-shot method which exploits simple geometric constraints to solve the correspondence problem. We also introduce De Bruijn spaced grids, a novel grid pattern, and show with strong empirical data that the resulting scheme is much more robust compared to those based on uniform spaced grids.

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Ulusoy, A., Calakli, F., Taubin, G. One-shot scanning using de bruijn spaced grids In Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on, pages: 1786-1792, IEEE, 2009 (inproceedings)

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An introduction to Kernel Learning Algorithms

Gehler, P., Schölkopf, B.

In Kernel Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis, pages: 25-48, 2, (Editors: Gustavo Camps-Valls and Lorenzo Bruzzone), Wiley, New York, NY, USA, 2009 (inbook)

Abstract

Kernel learning algorithms are currently becoming a standard tool in the area of machine learning and pattern recognition. In this chapter we review the fundamental theory of kernel learning. As the basic building block we introduce the kernel function, which provides an elegant and general way to compare possibly very complex objects. We then review the concept of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space and state the representer theorem. Finally we give an overview of the most prominent algorithms, which are support vector classification and regression, Gaussian Processes and kernel principal analysis. With multiple kernel learning and structured output prediction we also introduce some more recent advancements in the field.

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Gehler, P., Schölkopf, B. An introduction to Kernel Learning Algorithms In Kernel Methods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis, pages: 25-48, 2, (Editors: Gustavo Camps-Valls and Lorenzo Bruzzone), Wiley, New York, NY, USA, 2009 (inbook)

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Estimating human shape and pose from a single image

Guan, P., Weiss, A., Balan, A., Black, M. J.

In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV, pages: 1381-1388, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Guan, P., Weiss, A., Balan, A., Black, M. J. Estimating human shape and pose from a single image In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV, pages: 1381-1388, 2009 (inproceedings)

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On feature combination for multiclass object classification

Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 221-228, 2009, oral presentation (inproceedings)

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Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. On feature combination for multiclass object classification In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pages: 221-228, 2009, oral presentation (inproceedings)

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Segmentation, Ordering and Multi-object Tracking Using Graphical Models

Wang, C., Gorce, M. D. L., Paragios, N.

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Wang, C., Gorce, M. D. L., Paragios, N. Segmentation, Ordering and Multi-object Tracking Using Graphical Models In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Visual Object Discovery

Sinha, P., Balas, B., Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J.

In Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives, pages: 301-323, (Editors: S. J. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele, M.J. Tarr), Cambridge University Press, 2009 (inbook)

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Sinha, P., Balas, B., Ostrovsky, Y., Wulff, J. Visual Object Discovery In Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives, pages: 301-323, (Editors: S. J. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele, M.J. Tarr), Cambridge University Press, 2009 (inbook)

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Evaluating the potential of primary motor and premotor cortex for mutltidimensional neuroprosthetic control of complete reaching and grasping actions

Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Yadollahpour, P., Shakhnarovich, G., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P.

2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009, Online (conference)

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Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Yadollahpour, P., Shakhnarovich, G., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Evaluating the potential of primary motor and premotor cortex for mutltidimensional neuroprosthetic control of complete reaching and grasping actions 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009, Online (conference)

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Modeling and Evaluation of Human-to-Robot Mapping of Grasps

Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages: 1-6, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Modeling and Evaluation of Human-to-Robot Mapping of Grasps In International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pages: 1-6, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Polyp Segmentation in NBI Colonoscopy

Gross, S., Kennel, M., Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Tischendorf, J., Trautwein, C., Aach, T.

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Endoscopic screening of the colon (colonoscopy) is performed to prevent cancer and to support therapy. During intervention colon polyps are located, inspected and, if need be, removed by the investigator. We propose a segmentation algorithm as a part of an automatic polyp classification system for colonoscopic Narrow-Band images. Our approach includes multi-scale filtering for noise reduction, suppression of small blood vessels, and enhancement of major edges. Results of the subsequent edge detection are compared to a set of elliptic templates and evaluated. We validated our algorithm on our polyp database with images acquired during routine colonoscopic examinations. The presented results show the reliable segmentation performance of our method and its robustness to image variations.

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Gross, S., Kennel, M., Stehle, T., Wulff, J., Tischendorf, J., Trautwein, C., Aach, T. Polyp Segmentation in NBI Colonoscopy

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An additive latent feature model for transparent object recognition

Fritz, M., Black, M., Bradski, G., Karayev, S., Darrell, T.

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, NIPS, pages: 558-566, MIT Press, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Fritz, M., Black, M., Bradski, G., Karayev, S., Darrell, T. An additive latent feature model for transparent object recognition In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, NIPS, pages: 558-566, MIT Press, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Automatic recognition of rodent behavior: A tool for systematic phenotypic analysis

Serre, T.*, Jhuang, H*., Garrote, E., Poggio, T., Steele, A.

CBCL paper #283/MIT-CSAIL-TR #2009-052., MIT, 2009 (techreport)

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Serre, T.*, Jhuang, H*., Garrote, E., Poggio, T., Steele, A. Automatic recognition of rodent behavior: A tool for systematic phenotypic analysis CBCL paper #283/MIT-CSAIL-TR #2009-052., MIT, 2009 (techreport)

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Let the kernel figure it out; Principled learning of pre-processing for kernel classifiers

Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2836-2843, IEEE Computer Society, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. Let the kernel figure it out; Principled learning of pre-processing for kernel classifiers In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages: 2836-2843, IEEE Computer Society, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Monocular Real-Time 3D Articulated Hand Pose Estimation

Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D.

In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 87-92, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Kragic, D. Monocular Real-Time 3D Articulated Hand Pose Estimation In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 87-92, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Grasp Recognition and Mapping on Humanoid Robots

Do, M., Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Azad, P., Asfour, T., Kragic, D., Dillmann, R.

In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 465-471, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Do, M., Romero, J., Kjellström, H., Azad, P., Asfour, T., Kragic, D., Dillmann, R. Grasp Recognition and Mapping on Humanoid Robots In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages: 465-471, 2009 (inproceedings)

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4D Cardiac Segmentation of the Epicardium and Left Ventricle

Pons-Moll, G., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R. S., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. H.

In World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Pons-Moll, G., Tadmor, G., MacLeod, R. S., Rosenhahn, B., Brooks, D. H. 4D Cardiac Segmentation of the Epicardium and Left Ventricle In World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Geometric Potential Force for the Deformable Model

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In The 20th British Machine Vision Conference, pages: 1-11, 2009 (inproceedings)

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We propose a new external force field for deformable models which can be conve- niently generalized to high dimensions. The external force field is based on hypothesized interactions between the relative geometries of the deformable model and image gradi- ents. The evolution of the deformable model is solved using the level set method. The dynamic interaction forces between the geometries can greatly improve the deformable model performance in acquiring complex geometries and highly concave boundaries, and in dealing with weak image edges. The new deformable model can handle arbi- trary cross-boundary initializations. Here, we show that the proposed method achieve significant improvements when compared against existing state-of-the-art techniques.

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Geometric Potential Force for the Deformable Model In The 20th British Machine Vision Conference, pages: 1-11, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Left Ventricular Regional Wall Curvedness and Wall Stress in Patients with Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Liang Zhong, Yi Su, Si Yong Yeo, Ru San Tan Dhanjoo Ghista, Ghassan Kassab

American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 296(3):H573-84, 2009 (article)

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Geometric remodeling of the left ventricle (LV) after myocardial infarction is associated with changes in myocardial wall stress. The objective of this study was to determine the regional curvatures and wall stress based on three-dimensional (3-D) reconstructions of the LV using MRI. Ten patients with ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) and 10 normal subjects underwent MRI scan. The IDCM patients also underwent delayed gadolinium-enhancement imaging to delineate the extent of myocardial infarct. Regional curvedness, local radii of curvature, and wall thickness were calculated. The percent curvedness change between end diastole and end systole was also calculated. In normal heart, a short- and long-axis two-dimensional analysis showed a 41 +/- 11% and 45 +/- 12% increase of the mean of peak systolic wall stress between basal and apical sections, respectively. However, 3-D analysis showed no significant difference in peak systolic wall stress from basal and apical sections (P = 0.298, ANOVA). LV shape differed between IDCM patients and normal subjects in several ways: LV shape was more spherical (sphericity index = 0.62 +/- 0.08 vs. 0.52 +/- 0.06, P < 0.05), curvedness at end diastole (mean for 16 segments = 0.034 +/- 0.0056 vs. 0.040 +/- 0.0071 mm(-1), P < 0.001) and end systole (mean for 16 segments = 0.037 +/- 0.0068 vs. 0.067 +/- 0.020 mm(-1), P < 0.001) was affected by infarction, and peak systolic wall stress was significantly increased at each segment in IDCM patients. The 3-D quantification of regional wall stress by cardiac MRI provides more precise evaluation of cardiac mechanics. Identification of regional curvedness and wall stresses helps delineate the mechanisms of LV remodeling in IDCM and may help guide therapeutic LV restoration.

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Liang Zhong, Yi Su, Si Yong Yeo, Ru San Tan Dhanjoo Ghista, Ghassan Kassab Left Ventricular Regional Wall Curvedness and Wall Stress in Patients with Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 296(3):H573-84, 2009 (article)

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Level Set Based Automatic Segmentation of Human Aorta

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, pages: 242-245, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Level Set Based Automatic Segmentation of Human Aorta In International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, pages: 242-245, 2009 (inproceedings)

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A Curvature-Based Approach for Left Ventricular Shape Analysis from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Si Yong Yeo, Liang Zhong, Yi Su, Ru San Tan, Dhanjoo Ghista

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 47(3):313-322, 2009 (article)

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It is believed that left ventricular (LV) regional shape is indicative of LV regional function, and cardiac pathologies are often associated with regional alterations in ventricular shape. In this article, we present a set of procedures for evaluating regional LV surface shape from anatomically accurate models reconstructed from cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images. LV surface curvatures are computed using local surface fitting method, which enables us to assess regional LV shape and its variation. Comparisons are made between normal and diseased hearts. It is illustrated that LV surface curvatures at different regions of the normal heart are higher than those of the diseased heart. Also, the normal heart experiences a larger change in regional curvedness during contraction than the diseased heart. It is believed that with a wide range of dataset being evaluated, this approach will provide a new and efficient way of quantifying LV regional function.

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Si Yong Yeo, Liang Zhong, Yi Su, Ru San Tan, Dhanjoo Ghista A Curvature-Based Approach for Left Ventricular Shape Analysis from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 47(3):313-322, 2009 (article)

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In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion

Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S.

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, pages: 2447-2453, 2009 (inproceedings)

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In factorization approaches to nonrigid structure from motion, the 3D shape of a deforming object is usually modeled as a linear combination of a small number of basis shapes. The original approach to simultaneously estimate the shape basis and nonrigid structure exploited orthonormality constraints for metric rectification. Recently, it has been asserted that structure recovery through orthonormality constraints alone is inherently ambiguous and cannot result in a unique solution. This assertion has been accepted as conventional wisdom and is the justification of many remedial heuristics in literature. Our key contribution is to prove that orthonormality constraints are in fact sufficient to recover the 3D structure from image observations alone. We characterize the true nature of the ambiguity in using orthonormality constraints for the shape basis and show that it has no impact on structure reconstruction. We conclude from our experimentation that the primary challenge in using shape basis for nonrigid structure from motion is the difficulty in the optimization problem rather than the ambiguity in orthonormality constraints.

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Akhter, I., Sheikh, Y., Khan, S. In Defense of Orthonormality Constraints for Nonrigid Structure from Motion In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, pages: 2447-2453, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Dynamic distortion correction for endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics

Stehle, T., Hennes, M., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T.

In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2009, pages: 142-146, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Endoscopic images are strongly affected by lens distortion caused by the use of wide angle lenses. In case of endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics, e.g. in bladder endoscopy or sinus endoscopy, the camera sensor and the optics do not form a rigid system but they can be shifted and rotated with respect to each other during an examination. This flexibility has a major impact on the location of the distortion centre as it is moved along with the optics. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for the dynamic correction of lens distortion in cystoscopy which is based on a one time calibration. For the compensation, we combine a conventional static method for distortion correction with an algorithm to detect the position and the orientation of the elliptic field of view. This enables us to estimate the position of the distortion centre according to the relative movement of camera and optics. Therewith, a distortion correction for arbitrary rotation angles and shifts becomes possible without performing static calibrations for every possible combination of shifts and angles beforehand.

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Stehle, T., Hennes, M., Gross, S., Behrens, A., Wulff, J., Aach, T. Dynamic distortion correction for endoscopy systems with exchangeable optics In Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2009, pages: 142-146, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Computational mechanisms for the recognition of time sequences of images in the visual cortex

Tan, C., Jhuang, H., Singer, J., Serre, T., Sheinberg, D., Poggio, T.

Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Tan, C., Jhuang, H., Singer, J., Serre, T., Sheinberg, D., Poggio, T. Computational mechanisms for the recognition of time sequences of images in the visual cortex Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Interactive Inverse Kinematics for Monocular Motion Estimation

Morten Engell-Norregaard, Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen

In The 6th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS), 2009 (inproceedings)

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Morten Engell-Norregaard, Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen Interactive Inverse Kinematics for Monocular Motion Estimation In The 6th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS), 2009 (inproceedings)

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A Comprehensive Grasp Taxonomy

Feix, T., Pawlik, R., Schmiedmayer, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D.

In Robotics, Science and Systems: Workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Feix, T., Pawlik, R., Schmiedmayer, H., Romero, J., Kragic, D. A Comprehensive Grasp Taxonomy In Robotics, Science and Systems: Workshop on Understanding the Human Hand for Advancing Robotic Manipulation, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Population coding of ground truth motion in natural scenes in the early visual system

Stanley, G., Black, M. J., Lewis, J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Alonso, J.

COSYNE, 2009 (conference)

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Stanley, G., Black, M. J., Lewis, J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Alonso, J. Population coding of ground truth motion in natural scenes in the early visual system COSYNE, 2009 (conference)

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Segmentation of Human Upper Airway Using a Level Set Based Deformable Model

Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu

In The 13th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Si Yong Yeo, Xianghua Xie, Igor Sazonov, Perumal Nithiarasu Segmentation of Human Upper Airway Using a Level Set Based Deformable Model In The 13th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Three Dimensional Monocular Human Motion Analysis in End-Effector Space

Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen

In Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5681, pages: 235-248, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Cremers, Daniel and Boykov, Yuri and Blake, Andrew and Schmidt, Frank), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Soren Hauberg, Jerome Lapuyade, Morten Engell-Norregaard, Kenny Erleben, Kim S. Pedersen Three Dimensional Monocular Human Motion Analysis in End-Effector Space In Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5681, pages: 235-248, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Cremers, Daniel and Boykov, Yuri and Blake, Andrew and Schmidt, Frank), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 (inproceedings)

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Decoding visual motion from correlated firing of thalamic neurons

Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Alonso, J.

2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., Desbordes, G., Jin, J., Wang, Y., Alonso, J. Decoding visual motion from correlated firing of thalamic neurons 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Society for Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, 2009 (conference)

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2004

Automatic spike sorting for neural decoding

Wood, F. D., Fellows, M., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 4009-4012, September 2004 (inproceedings)

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2004

Wood, F. D., Fellows, M., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Automatic spike sorting for neural decoding In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 4009-4012, September 2004 (inproceedings)

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Closed-loop neural control of cursor motion using a Kalman filter

Wu, W., Shaikhouni, A., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 4126-4129, September 2004 (inproceedings)

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Wu, W., Shaikhouni, A., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. Closed-loop neural control of cursor motion using a Kalman filter In Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pages: 4126-4129, September 2004 (inproceedings)

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The dense estimation of motion and appearance in layers

Yalcin, H., Black, M. J., Fablet, R.

In IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Yalcin, H., Black, M. J., Fablet, R. The dense estimation of motion and appearance in layers In IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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3D human limb detection using space carving and multi-view eigen models

Bhatia, S., Sigal, L., Isard, M., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Bhatia, S., Sigal, L., Isard, M., Black, M. J. 3D human limb detection using space carving and multi-view eigen models In IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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On the variability of manual spike sorting

Wood, F., Black, M. J., Vargas-Irwin, C., Fellows, M., Donoghue, J. P.

IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 51(6):912-918, June 2004 (article)

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Wood, F., Black, M. J., Vargas-Irwin, C., Fellows, M., Donoghue, J. P. On the variability of manual spike sorting IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 51(6):912-918, June 2004 (article)

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Tracking loose-limbed people

Sigal, L., Bhatia, S., Roth, S., Black, M. J., Isard, M.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1, pages: 421-428, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Sigal, L., Bhatia, S., Roth, S., Black, M. J., Isard, M. Tracking loose-limbed people In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1, pages: 421-428, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Modeling and decoding motor cortical activity using a switching Kalman filter

Wu, W., Black, M. J., Mumford, D., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Donoghue, J. P.

IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 51(6):933-942, June 2004 (article)

Abstract

We present a switching Kalman filter model for the real-time inference of hand kinematics from a population of motor cortical neurons. Firing rates are modeled as a Gaussian mixture where the mean of each Gaussian component is a linear function of hand kinematics. A “hidden state” models the probability of each mixture component and evolves over time in a Markov chain. The model generalizes previous encoding and decoding methods, addresses the non-Gaussian nature of firing rates, and can cope with crudely sorted neural data common in on-line prosthetic applications.

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Wu, W., Black, M. J., Mumford, D., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Donoghue, J. P. Modeling and decoding motor cortical activity using a switching Kalman filter IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, 51(6):933-942, June 2004 (article)

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Gibbs likelihoods for Bayesian tracking

Roth, S., Sigal, L., Black, M. J.

In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1, pages: 886-893, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Roth, S., Sigal, L., Black, M. J. Gibbs likelihoods for Bayesian tracking In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1, pages: 886-893, June 2004 (inproceedings)

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Development of neural motor prostheses for humans

Donoghue, J., Nurmikko, A., Friehs, G., Black, M.

In Advances in Clinical Neurophysiology, (Editors: Hallett, M. and Phillips, L.H. and Schomer, D.L. and Massey, J.M.), Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology Vol. 57, 2004 (incollection)

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Donoghue, J., Nurmikko, A., Friehs, G., Black, M. Development of neural motor prostheses for humans In Advances in Clinical Neurophysiology, (Editors: Hallett, M. and Phillips, L.H. and Schomer, D.L. and Massey, J.M.), Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology Vol. 57, 2004 (incollection)

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A direct brain-machine interface for 2D cursor control using a Kalman filter

Shaikhouni, A., Wu, W., Moris, D. S., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J.

Society for Neuroscience, 2004, Online (conference)

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Shaikhouni, A., Wu, W., Moris, D. S., Donoghue, J. P., Black, M. J. A direct brain-machine interface for 2D cursor control using a Kalman filter Society for Neuroscience, 2004, Online (conference)

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1999

Edges as outliers: Anisotropic smoothing using local image statistics

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G.

In Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision, Second Int. Conf., Scale-Space ’99, pages: 259-270, LNCS 1682, Springer, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Edges are viewed as statistical outliers with respect to local image gradient magnitudes. Within local image regions we compute a robust statistical measure of the gradient variation and use this in an anisotropic diffusion framework to determine a spatially varying "edge-stopping" parameter σ. We show how to determine this parameter for two edge-stopping functions described in the literature (Perona-Malik and the Tukey biweight). Smoothing of the image is related the local texture and in regions of low texture, small gradient values may be treated as edges whereas in regions of high texture, large gradient magnitudes are necessary before an edge is preserved. Intuitively these results have similarities with human perceptual phenomena such as masking and "popout". Results are shown on a variety of standard images.

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1999

Black, M. J., Sapiro, G. Edges as outliers: Anisotropic smoothing using local image statistics In Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision, Second Int. Conf., Scale-Space ’99, pages: 259-270, LNCS 1682, Springer, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion discontinuities

(Marr Prize, Honorable Mention)

Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J.

In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV-99, pages: 551-558, ICCV, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Black, M. J., Fleet, D. J. Probabilistic detection and tracking of motion discontinuities In Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV-99, pages: 551-558, ICCV, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 (inproceedings)

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Artscience Sciencart

Black, M. J., Levy, D., PamelaZ,

In Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program, pages: 244-300, (Editors: Harris, C.), MIT-Press, 1999 (incollection)

Abstract

One of the effects of the PARC Artist In Residence (PAIR) program has been to expose the strong connections between scientists and artists. Both do what they do because they need to do it. They are often called upon to justify their work in order to be allowed to continue to do it. They need to justify it to funders, to sponsoring institutions, corporations, the government, the public. They publish papers, teach workshops, and write grants touting the educational or health benefits of what they do. All of these things are to some extent valid, but the fact of the matter is: artists and scientists do their work because they are driven to do it. They need to explore and create.

This chapter attempts to give a flavor of one multi-way "PAIRing" between performance artist PamelaZ and two PARC researchers, Michael Black and David Levy. The three of us paired up because we found each other interesting. We chose each other. While most artists in the program are paired with a single researcher Pamela jokingly calls herself a bigamist for choosing two PAIR "husbands" with different backgrounds and interests.

There are no "rules" to the PAIR program; no one told us what to do with our time. Despite this we all had a sense that we needed to produce something tangible during Pamela's year-long residency. In fact, Pamela kept extending her residency because she did not feel as though we had actually made anything concrete. The interesting thing was that all along we were having great conversations, some of which Pamela recorded. What we did not see at the time was that it was these conversations between artists and scientists that are at the heart of the PAIR program and that these conversations were changing the way we thought about our own work and the relationships between science and art.

To give these conversations their due, and to allow the reader into our PAIR interactions, we include two of our many conversations in this chapter.

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Black, M. J., Levy, D., PamelaZ, Artscience Sciencart In Art and Innovation: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program, pages: 244-300, (Editors: Harris, C.), MIT-Press, 1999 (incollection)

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Parameterized modeling and recognition of activities

Yacoob, Y., Black, M. J.

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 73(2):232-247, 1999 (article)

Abstract

In this paper we consider a class of human activities—atomic activities—which can be represented as a set of measurements over a finite temporal window (e.g., the motion of human body parts during a walking cycle) and which has a relatively small space of variations in performance. A new approach for modeling and recognition of atomic activities that employs principal component analysis and analytical global transformations is proposed. The modeling of sets of exemplar instances of activities that are similar in duration and involve similar body part motions is achieved by parameterizing their representation using principal component analysis. The recognition of variants of modeled activities is achieved by searching the space of admissible parameterized transformations that these activities can undergo. This formulation iteratively refines the recognition of the class to which the observed activity belongs and the transformation parameters that relate it to the model in its class. We provide several experiments on recognition of articulated and deformable human motions from image motion parameters.

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Yacoob, Y., Black, M. J. Parameterized modeling and recognition of activities Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 73(2):232-247, 1999 (article)

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