Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · January 1, 2025
We provide a sober look at the application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in autonomous driving, challenging common assumptions about their ability to interpret dynamic driving scenarios. Despite advances in models like GPT-4o, their performan ...
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Journal articleSci Rep · August 5, 2024
Recent advances in AI and intelligent vehicle technology hold the promise of revolutionizing mobility and transportation through advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Certain cognitive factors, such as impulsivity and inhibitory control have been show ...
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Journal articleIEEE Trans Med Imaging · January 2024
Analysis of relations between objects and comprehension of abstract concepts in the surgical video is important in AI-augmented surgery. However, building models that integrate our knowledge and understanding of surgery remains a challenging endeavor. In t ...
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Journal articleSurg Endosc · November 2023
BACKGROUND: Surgery generates a vast amount of data from each procedure. Particularly video data provides significant value for surgical research, clinical outcome assessment, quality control, and education. The data lifecycle is influenced by various fact ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · August 1, 2023
As learning-based methods make their way from perception systems to planning/control stacks, robot control systems have started to enjoy the benefits that data-driven methods provide. Because control systems directly affect the motion of the robot, data-dr ...
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Journal articleSurg Endosc · May 2023
BACKGROUND: Surgical phase recognition using computer vision presents an essential requirement for artificial intelligence-assisted analysis of surgical workflow. Its performance is heavily dependent on large amounts of annotated video data, which remain a ...
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Journal articleSurg Endosc · September 2022
BACKGROUND: Operative courses of laparoscopic cholecystectomies vary widely due to differing pathologies. Efforts to assess intra-operative difficulty include the Parkland grading scale (PGS), which scores inflammation from the initial view of the gallblad ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · April 1, 2022
Comprehension of surgical workflow is the foundation upon which artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) holds the potential to assist intraoperative decision making and risk mitigation. In this work, we move beyond mere identification of pas ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · April 1, 2022
Symbolic reasoning is a key component for enabling practical use of data-driven planners in autonomous driving. In that context, deterministic finite state automata (DFA) are often used to formalize the underlying high-level decision-making process. Manual ...
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Journal articleComput Assist Surg (Abingdon) · December 2021
Annotation of surgical video is important for establishing ground truth in surgical data science endeavors that involve computer vision. With the growth of the field over the last decade, several challenges have been identified in annotating spatial, tempo ...
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Journal articleSurg Endosc · September 2021
BACKGROUND: The growing interest in analysis of surgical video through machine learning has led to increased research efforts; however, common methods of annotating video data are lacking. There is a need to establish recommendations on the annotation of s ...
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Journal articleSurg Endosc · July 2021
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) have revolutionized image analysis. In surgery, CV applications have focused on surgical phase identification in laparoscopic videos. We proposed to apply CV techniques to identify phases in ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · July 1, 2021
Predicting driver intentions is a difficult and crucial task for advanced driver assistance systems. Traditional confidence measures on predictions often ignore the way predicted trajectories affect downstream decisions for safe driving. In this letter, we ...
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Journal articleSurgery · May 2021
The fields of computer vision (CV) and artificial intelligence (AI) have undergone rapid advancements in the past decade, many of which have been applied to the analysis of intraoperative video. These advances are driven by wide-spread application of deep ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · April 1, 2021
In this work, we propose a novel approach for integrating rules into traffic agent trajectory prediction. Consideration of rules is important for understanding how people behave-yet, it cannot be assumed that rules are always followed. To address this chal ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · October 1, 2020
In this letter, we propose a novel approach for agent motion prediction in cluttered environments. One of the main challenges in predicting agent motion is accounting for location and context-specific information. Our main contribution is the concept of le ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · October 1, 2020
Vehicle trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistant systems. While existing approaches may sample from a predicted distribution of vehicle trajectories, they lack the ability to explore it-a key ability for evaluat ...
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Journal articleAnesthesiology · February 2020
Artificial intelligence has been advancing in fields including anesthesiology. This scoping review of the intersection of artificial intelligence and anesthesia research identified and summarized six themes of applications of artificial intelligence in ane ...
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Journal articleIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · October 1, 2019
Among traffic accidents in the USA, 23% of fatal and 32% of non-fatal incidents occurred at intersections. For driver assistance systems, intersection navigation remains a difficult problem that is critically important to increasing driver safety. In this ...
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Journal articleAnn Surg · September 2019
OBJECTIVE(S): To develop and assess AI algorithms to identify operative steps in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). BACKGROUND: Computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), allows for quantitative analysis of video by computers for identifi ...
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Journal articleAnn Surg · July 2018
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to summarize major topics in artificial intelligence (AI), including their applications and limitations in surgery. This paper reviews the key capabilities of AI to help surgeons understand and critically evaluate new ...
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Journal articleIEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell · January 2018
Objects and structures within man-made environments typically exhibit a high degree of organization in the form of orthogonal and parallel planes. Traditional approaches utilize these regularities via the restrictive, and rather local, Manhattan World (MW) ...
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Journal articleIEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell · August 2015
Segmenting an image into an arbitrary number of coherent regions is at the core of image understanding. Many formulations of the segmentation problem have been suggested over the past years. These formulations include, among others, axiomatic functionals, ...
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Journal articleComputer Graphics Forum · January 1, 2013
We present a new framework for point cloud denoising by patch-collaborative spectral analysis. A collaborative generalization of each surface patch is defined, combining similar patches from the denoised surface. The Laplace-Beltrami operator of the collab ...
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Journal articleJournal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision · June 1, 2011
The Beltrami flow is an efficient nonlinear filter, that was shown to be effective for color image processing. The corresponding anisotropic diffusion operator strongly couples the spectral components. Usually, this flow is implemented by explicit schemes, ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Computer Vision · August 1, 2010
Many manifold learning procedures try to embed a given feature data into a flat space of low dimensionality while preserving as much as possible the metric in the natural feature space. The embedding process usually relies on distances between neighboring ...
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Journal articleSIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences · January 1, 2009
The Beltrami image flow is an effective nonlinear filter, often used in color image processing. It was shown to be closely related to the median, total variation, and bilateral filters. It treats the image as a two-dimensional manifold embedded in a hybrid ...
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