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 Runner-up Award]

[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]

2011_CGA_CrowdDiversity

Context-Aware Motion Diversification for Crowd Simulation

Qin Gu, and Zhigang Deng

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) , Sept/Oct 2011, pp. 14-25

[Video] [pdf]

2011_ISBI_extractGeometricFeaturesfromHeart

Extracting Geometric Features of Aortic-Valve Annulus Motion from Dynamic Cardiac MRI for Guiding Interventions

Nikhil Navkar, Erol Yeniaras, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2011 , Chicago, IL, March 2011, pp. 1302-1305

[pdf]

2011-GI_formationSketching_preprint

Formation Sketching: An Approach to Stylize Groups in Crowd Simulation

Qin Gu, and Zhigang Deng

Proc. of Graphics Interface (GI) 2011 , St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, May 2011, pp. 1-8

[Video] [pdf]

2011-MICCAI_Generation of 4D Access Corridors

Generation of 4D Access Corridors from Real-Time Multislice MRI for Guiding Transapical Aortic Valvuloplasties

Nikhil Navkar, Erol Yeniaras, Dipan J. Shah, Nikos V. Tsekos, and Zhigang Deng

Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2011 , Toronto, Canada, Sep 2011, pp. 251-258

[pdf]

2011-TR-Improving Energy Efficiency of GPU based

Improving Energy Efficiency of GPU based General-Purpose Scientific Computing through Automated Selection of Near Optimal Configurations

Xiaohan Ma, Mario Rincon, and Zhigang Deng

Computer Science Technical Report UH-CS-11-08 , University of Houston, Oct 2011

[pdf]

2011_ICRA_MRbasedControlHeart

Magnetic Resonance Based Control of A Robotic Manipulator for Interventions in the Beating Heart

Erol Yeniaras, Johann Lamaury, Nikhil Navkar, Dipan J. Shah, Karen Chin, and Nikos V. Tsekos

Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011 , Shanghai, China, May 2011, pp. 6270-6275

[pdf]

2011-MICCAI-MR-based Real Time Path Planning

MR-based Real Time Path Planning for Cardiac Operations with Transapical Access

Erol Yeniaras, Nikhil Navkar, Ahmet Sonmez, Dipan J. Shah, Zhigang Deng, and Nikos V. Tsekos

Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2011 , Toronto, Canada, Sep 2011, pp. 25-32

[pdf]

2011_CHI_headMotionPerceptualAnalysis

Perceptual Analysis of Talking Avatar Head Movements: A Quantitative Perspective

Xiaohan Ma, Binh H. Le, and Zhigang Deng

Proc. of ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2011 , Vancouver, Canada, May 2011, pp. 2699-270

[Video] [pdf]

2010-GI_facesketching

Crafting 3D Faces Using Free Form Portrait Sketching and Plausible Texture Inference

Tanasai Sucontphunt, Borom Tunwattanapong, Zhigang Deng, and Ulrich Neumann

Proc. of Graphics Interface (GI) 2010 , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May-June 2010, pp. 209-216

[Video] [pdf] [bibtex]

2009_TVCJ_faceilluminationtransfer

Image-based Face Illumination Transferring using Logarithmic Total Variation Models

Qing Li, Wotao Yin, and Zhigang Deng

The Visual Computer (TVC) , Jan 2010, 26(1), pp. 41-49

[pdf]