This paper provides an overview of the main developments of the Tech United Eindhoven RoboCup@Home team. The main research effort of the past year has focused on developing a global, volumetric, object-oriented world model. This world model should replace all world representations that are commonly present in an architecture, e.g., for navigation and manipulation. As a result, these modules can...

Currently, the two main approaches to realistic facial animation are 1) blendshape models and 2) physics-based simulation. Blendshapes are fast and directly controllable, but it is not easy to incorporate features such as dynamics, collision resolution, or incompressibility of the flesh. Physics-based methods can deliver these effects automatically, but modeling of muscles, bones, and other ana...

In this paper we present KOALA, a system realizing shared displays for promoting informal cooperation. We report the results from an exploratory study of real world usage of KOALA that we have conducted to understand how shared display systems are used and how their usage patterns might differ from their paperbased counterparts. This study was conducted with the aim of informing the design of a...

In this paper a novel algorithm for lossless compression of volumetric data is presented. This algorithm is based on our previously presented algorithm for lossless compression of volumetric data, which uses quadtree encoding of slices of data for discovering the coherence and similarities between consecutive slices. By exploiting these properties of the data, the algorithm can efficiently comp...

3D shape models that directly classify objects from 3D information have become more widely implementable. Current state of the art models rely on deep convolutional and inception models that are resource intensive. Residual neural networks have been demonstrated to be easier to optimize and do not suffer from vanishing/exploding gradients observed in deep networks. Here we implement a residual ...

Reconstructing functional volumetric tissue in vivo following implantation remains a critical challenge facing cell-based approaches. Several pre-vascularization approaches have been developed to increase cell viability following implantation. Structural and functional restoration was achieved in a preclinical rodent tissue defect; however, the approach used in this model fails to repair larger...

We present an efficient adaptive method to compute the harmonic volumetric mapping, which establishes a smooth correspondence between two given solid objects of the same topology. We solve a sequence of charge systems based on the harmonic function theory and the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) for designing the map with boundary and feature constraints. Compared to the previous harmonic ...

We develop a volumetric video system which supports interactive browsing of compressed time-varying volumetric features (significant isosurfaces and interval volumes). Since the size of even one volumetric frame in a time-varying 3D data set is very large, transmission and on-line reconstruction are the main bottlenecks for interactive remote visualization of time-varying volume and surface dat...

background: it is not clear whether the use of volumetric peristaltic infusion pumps, affect the quality of the erythrocytes during packed cell transfusion or not. in the present study in vitro quality of red blood cells was assessed after using this type of infusion pumps in a prospective study. materials and methods: in this study 60 units of packed red cells were examined before and after pa...

The determination of the control area a single well is prerequisite for evaluation reserves well. current calculation methods are mainly divided into: experience formula, balancing method, and physical model, in order to solve different limitations existing single-well splitting method problem large error use, this paper puts forward kind based on gas reservoir property growth productivity diff...