Publications

2014_CGA_GPUacceleNeurosurgicalIntervention

GPU-Accelerated Interactive Visualization and Planning of Neurosurgical Interventions
Mario Rincon, Nikhil Navkar, Nikos Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng
IEEE Computer Graphics and Application (CG&A) , Jan/Feb 2014, pp. 14-23.
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2013-CASA-Traffic-Simulation-Preprint

AA-FVDM: An Accident-Avoidance Full Velocity Difference Model for Animating Realistic Street-Level Traffic in Rural Scenes
Xuequan Lu, Wenzhi Chen, Mingliang Xu, Zonghui Wang, Zhigang Deng, and Yangdong Ye
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal , 25(1), Jan/Feb 2014, pp. 83-97.
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2013_siggraph_raytracing_poster

Cost-based Workload Balancing for Ray Tracing on Multi-GPU Systems
Mario Rincon, and Zhigang Deng
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Research Poster , Anaheim, CA, July 2013.
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2013-TVCG-FacialMarkerOptimization

Marker Optimization for Facial Motion Acquisition and Deformation
Binh H. Le, Mingyang Zhu, and Zhigang Deng
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) , 19(11), November 2013, pp. 1859-1871. (Also presented on ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2013)
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2013-THMS-Mobile-Avatar-final

A Text-Driven Conversational Avatar Interface for Instant Messaging on Mobile Devices
Mario Rincon, and Zhigang Deng
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS) , 43(3), May 2013, pp. 328-332.
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2013-ICRA-VisualHapticSystem

Implementation of a Force-Feedback Interface for Fixed-Access Point Interventions with real time MRI guidance
Nick V. Sternberg, Atilla Kilicarslan, Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Karolos Grigoriadis, and Nikos V. Tsekos
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013 , Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013.
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2012_TBME_VisualHapticInterface

A Framework for Integrating real-time MRI with Robot Control: Application to Simulated Transapical Cardiac Interventions
Nikhil Navkar, Zhigang Deng, Dipan J. Shah, and Nikos V. Tsekos
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME) , April 2013, 60(4), pp. 1023-1033.
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2012-TOMCCAP-watermarking

A Robust High Capacity Affine-Transformation-Invariant Scheme for Watermarking 3D Geometric Models
Xifeng Gao, Caiming Zhang, Yan Huang, and Zhigang Deng
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) , volume 8, number 2S, Article 34, pages 1-21, September 2012
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2012_BIBE_MRIntraoperativeRegistration

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.
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2012–PhD Dissertation Xiaohan Ma

Perceptual Analysis and Modeling of Facial Animation
Xiaohan Ma
PhD Dissertation , Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 2012

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
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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. ]
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