Publications

2012-SCA-QSSD-motionCompressionRetrieval

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]

2012_SiggraphAsia_SSDR

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]

2012-ICRA-visualForcebackGuidance

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 Award Runner-up]
[pdf]

2012-BioRob-Robot-assisted registration

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]

2011_TMI_dentriteTracking

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]

2011_MMVR_VRCardiacPlanning_preprint

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]

2011–PhD Dissertation Qin Gu

Agent-based Approaches for Stylizing Motion Variations and Formations in Crowd Simulation
Qin Gu
PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2011

2011–PhD Dissertation Qing Li

Algorithms for Dendritic Spine Detection and Tracking in Time-Lapse Microscopy Neuron Images
Qing Li
PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2011

2011_BIOENG_bioSensing

An approach for robot-assisted biosensing: Demonstration with MRI-guided MR spectroscopy
Ahmet Onmez, Yousef Hedayati, Andrew G. Webb, Zhigang Deng, and Nikos V. Tsekos
Proc. of 10th IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Engineering (BIOENG) 2011 , Kos, Greece, Oct 2011, pp. 1-4
[pdf]

2011_MMVR_ComparisonOfReachingKinematics

Comparison of Reaching Kinematics during Mirror and Parallel Robot Assisted Movements
Zahra Kadivar, Cynthia Sung, Zachary Thompson, Marcia O'Malley, Michael Liebschner, and Zhigang Deng
Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2011 Conference(MMVR) , Long Beach, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 247-253
[pdf]
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