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In a recent article M. Colyvan has argued that Quinean forms of scientific realism are faced with an unexpected upshot. Realism concerning a given class of entities, along with this route to realism, can be vindicated by running an indispensability argumen ...

2010

Mammographic texture synthesis: second-generation clustered lumpy backgrounds using a genetic algorithm

François Bochud, Cyril Castella

Synthetic yet realistic images are valuable for many applications in visual sciences and medical imaging. Typically, investigators develop algorithms and adjust their parameters to generate images that are visually similar to real images. In this study, we ...

2008

Augmented reality for non-rigid surfaces

Julien Pilet

Augmented Reality (AR) is the process of integrating virtual elements in reality, often by mixing computer graphics into a live video stream of a real scene. It requires registration of the target object with respect to the cameras. To this end, some appro ...

EPFL2008

Development of a Microsurgery Training System

Hannes Bleuler, Etienne Burdet, Fei Wang

Surgeons require significant training to acquire sufficient dexterity and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects skilfully under the microscope. This paper presents a computer-based real-time simulation of microsurgery as well as the hardware setup. I ...

IEEE2008

Development of a Microsurgery Training System

Hannes Bleuler, Etienne Burdet, Fei Wang

Surgeons require significant training to acquire sufficient dexterity and hand-eye coordination to manipulate objects skillfully under the microscope. This paper presents a computer-based real-time simulation of microsurgery as well as the hardware setup. ...

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A Computer-Based Real-Time Simulation of Interventional Radiology

Hannes Bleuler, Lindo Robert Duratti, Fei Wang, Evren Samur

Interventional radiology is a minimally invasive procedure where thin instruments, guidewires and catheters or stents are steered through the patient’s vascular system under X- ray imaging for treatment of vascular diseases. The complexity of these procedu ...

2007

Shadow segmentation and tracking in real-world conditions

Elena Salvador

Visual information, in the form of images and video, comes from the interaction of light with objects. Illumination is a fundamental element of visual information. Detecting and interpreting illumination effects is part of our everyday life visual experien ...

EPFL2004

Reflex movements for a virtual human: a biology inspired approach

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

This paper presents the results of a method to produce autonomous animation of virtual humans. In particular, the proposed methodology is focused on the autonomous synthesis of nonvoluntary gestures such as reflexes and subtle movements which provide a not ...

2004

Sharing attractions on the Net with VPark

Daniel Thalmann, Joaquim Esmerado

We present a networked virtual environment (NVE) system and an attraction building system based on Windows NT that enables users to introduce their own scenario-based applications into a shared virtual environment. Our goal was to develop and integrate sev ...

IEEE2001

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