Intraoperative Registration of Preoperative 4D Cardiac Anatomy with real-time MR images Xifeng Gao, Nikhil Navkar, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng Proc. of IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE) 2012 , Larnaca, Cyprus, Nov 11-13, 2012, pp. 583-588. [pdf]
Live Speech Driven Head-and-Eye Motion Generators Binh H. Le, Xiaohan Ma, and Zhigang Deng IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 18(11), Nov 2012, pp. 1902-1914 [Video] [pdf] [Errata Correction and Appendix for COA Calculation]
Perceptual Analysis and Modeling of Facial Animation Xiaohan Ma PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2012
Quaternion Space Sparse Decomposition for Motion Compression and Retrieval Mingyang Zhu, Huaijiang Sun, and Zhigang Deng Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012 , Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2012, pp. 183-192 [Video] [pdf]
Smooth Skinning Decomposition with Rigid Bones Binh H. Le, and Zhigang Deng ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012) , 31(6), Nov 2012, 199:1-199:10. [Incorporated into mainstream Graphics/Animation packages including Maya, Houdini, and Blender, and used in many game studios including EA. ] [Video] [pdf] [source code] [slides] [Executable Code]
Visual and Force-Feedback Guidance for Robot-Assisted Interventions in the Beating Heart with Real-Time MRI Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, Kostas Berkis, and Nikos V. Tsekos Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012 , St Paul, MN, May 14-18, 2012, pp. 689-694 [Best Medical Robotics Paper Runner-up Award] [pdf]
Robot-Assisted Mechanical Scanning and Co-Registration of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Light-Induced Flurescence Ahmet E. Sonmez, William M. Spees, Alpay Ozcan, Zhigang Deng, Andrew Webb, and Nikolaos V. Tsekos Proc. of Fourth IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) 2012 Rome, Italy, June 24-28, 2012, pp. 775-780. [Best Student Paper Finalist] [pdf]
A Global Spatial Similarity Optimization Scheme to Track Large Numbers of Dendritic Spines in Time-lapse Confocal Microscopy Qing Li, Zhigang Deng, Yong Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, U. Valntin Nagerl, and Stephen T. C. Wong IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) , 30(3), March 2011, pp. 632-641 [pdf]
A Novel Virtual Reality Environment for Preoperative Planning and Simulation of Image Guided Intracardiac Surgeries with Robotic Manipulators Erol Yeniaras, Zhigang Deng, Mushabbar A. Syed, Mark Davies, and Nikos V. Tsekos Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference(MMVR) , Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 716-722 [pdf]
Agent-based Approaches for Stylizing Motion Variations and Formations in Crowd Simulation Qin Gu PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2011