no code implementations • 29 Sep 2024 • Soofiyan Atar, Yuheng Zhi, Florian Richter, Michael Yip
Depth perception is essential for a robot's spatial and geometric understanding of its environment, with many tasks traditionally relying on hardware-based depth sensors like RGB-D or stereo cameras.
no code implementations • 24 Mar 2024 • Albert J. Miao, Shan Lin, Jingpei Lu, Florian Richter, Benjamin Ostrander, Emily K. Funk, Ryan K. Orosco, Michael C. Yip
The first step in automation of hemostasis management is detection of blood in the surgical field.
no code implementations • 8 Mar 2024 • Christopher D'Ambrosia, Florian Richter, Zih-Yun Chiu, Nikhil Shinde, Fei Liu, Henrik I. Christensen, Michael C. Yip
Uncertainties in mechanical systems as well as camera calibration create errors in this coordinate frame transformation.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2023 • Shan Lin, Albert J. Miao, Ali Alabiad, Fei Liu, Kaiyuan Wang, Jingpei Lu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
Thus, for tuning the learning model, we gather endoscopic data of soft tissue being manipulated by a surgical robot and then establish correspondences between point clouds at different time points to serve as ground truth.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2023 • Nikhil U. Shinde, Xiao Liang, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
Additionally these methods are reliant on the availability of large training datasets to converge to useful solutions.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Jingpei Lu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
Solving the camera-to-robot pose is a fundamental requirement for vision-based robot control, and is a process that takes considerable effort and cares to make accurate.
Ranked #2 on Robot Pose Estimation on DREAM-dataset
1 code implementation • 29 Oct 2022 • Shan Lin, Albert J. Miao, Jingpei Lu, Shunkai Yu, Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
In this paper, we present a novel, comprehensive surgical perception framework, Semantic-SuPer, that integrates geometric and semantic information to facilitate data association, 3D reconstruction, and tracking of endoscopic scenes, benefiting downstream tasks like surgical navigation.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Zih-Yun Chiu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
In this work, we consider feasible grasping constraints when tracking the 6D pose of an in-hand suture needle.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Florian Richter, Ryan K. Orosco, Michael C. Yip
In this work, we present a solution to the challenging problem of reconstructing liquids from image data.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Nikhil Uday Shinde, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
In this paper we propose a non-parametric method using Gaussian Process models to propagate probability distributions over sequentially predicted images for confidence aware video prediction with little training.
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2021 • Zih-Yun Chiu, Albert Z Liao, Florian Richter, Bjorn Johnson, Michael C. Yip
Previous approaches in autonomous suturing often relied on fiducial markers rather than markerless detection schemes for localizing a suture needle due to the inconsistency of markerless detections.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2021 • Jingbin Huang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
The fully differentiable fluid dynamics is integrated with a novel suction model for effective model predictive control of the tool.
Robotics
1 code implementation • 15 Oct 2020 • Jingpei Lu, Florian Richter, Michael Yip
The physical world experiments show how the proposed method can be applied to the wide-breadth of robotic applications that require visual feedback, such as camera-to-robot calibration, robotic tool tracking, and end-effector pose estimation.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2020 • Florian Richter
The conceptual background of representation in models is discussed and in the end I propose how implications of propositional logic and conceptual determinations can be represented in a model of a neural network.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2020 • Florian Richter
Material inferences are based on modal vocabulary, which enriches the logical expressivity of the inferential relations.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2020 • Florian Richter
The difference between object-language and metalanguage is crucial for logical analysis, but has yet not been examined for the field of computer science.
2 code implementations • 7 Mar 2020 • Jingpei Lu, Ambareesh Jayakumari, Florian Richter, Yang Li, Michael C. Yip
Robotic automation in surgery requires precise tracking of surgical tools and mapping of deformable tissue.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2019 • Yang Li, Florian Richter, Jingpei Lu, Emily K. Funk, Ryan K. Orosco, Jianke Zhu, Michael C. Yip
In this work, we propose a novel surgical perception framework, SuPer, for surgical robotic control.
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2019 • Florian Richter, Ryan K. Orosco, Michael C. Yip
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a machine learning framework for artificially intelligent systems to solve a variety of complex problems.
Robotics