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BundleMAP: Anatomically Localized Classification, Regression, and Hypothesis Testing in Diffusion MRI

Khatami, M., Schmidt-Wilcke, T., Sundgren, P. C., Abbasloo, A., Schölkopf, B., Schultz, T.

Pattern Recognition, 63, pages: 593-600, 2017 (article)

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ei Khatami, M., Schmidt-Wilcke, T., Sundgren, P. C., Abbasloo, A., Schölkopf, B., Schultz, T. BundleMAP: Anatomically Localized Classification, Regression, and Hypothesis Testing in Diffusion MRI Pattern Recognition, 63, pages: 593-600, 2017 (article)

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Data-Driven Physics for Human Soft Tissue Animation

Kim, M., Pons-Moll, G., Pujades, S., Bang, S., Kim, J., Black, M. J., Lee, S.

ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 36(4):54:1-54:12, 2017 (article)

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Data driven models of human poses and soft-tissue deformations can produce very realistic results, but they only model the visible surface of the human body and cannot create skin deformation due to interactions with the environment. Physical simulations can generalize to external forces, but their parameters are difficult to control. In this paper, we present a layered volumetric human body model learned from data. Our model is composed of a data-driven inner layer and a physics-based external layer. The inner layer is driven with a volumetric statistical body model (VSMPL). The soft tissue layer consists of a tetrahedral mesh that is driven using the finite element method (FEM). Model parameters, namely the segmentation of the body into layers and the soft tissue elasticity, are learned directly from 4D registrations of humans exhibiting soft tissue deformations. The learned two layer model is a realistic full-body avatar that generalizes to novel motions and external forces. Experiments show that the resulting avatars produce realistic results on held out sequences and react to external forces. Moreover, the model supports the retargeting of physical properties from one avatar when they share the same topology.

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ps Kim, M., Pons-Moll, G., Pujades, S., Bang, S., Kim, J., Black, M. J., Lee, S. Data-Driven Physics for Human Soft Tissue Animation ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 36(4):54:1-54:12, 2017 (article)

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Recent Advances in Skin Penetration Enhancers for Transdermal Gene and Drug Delivery

Amjadia, M., Mostaghacia, B., Sittia, M.

Current Gene Therapy, 17, 2017 (article)

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There is a growing interest in transdermal delivery systems because of their noninvasive, targeted, and on-demand delivery of gene and drugs. However, efficient penetration of therapeutic compounds into the skin is still challenging largely due to the impermeability of the outermost layer of the skin, known as stratum corneum. Recently, there have been major research activities to enhance the skin penetration depth of pharmacological agents. This article reviews recent advances in the development of various strategies for skin penetration enhancement. We show that approaches such as ultrasound waves, laser, and microneedle patches have successfully been employed to physically disrupt the stratum corneum structure for enhanced transdermal delivery. Rather than physical approaches, several non-physical route have also been utilized for efficient transdermal delivery across the skin barrier. Finally, we discuss some clinical applications of transdermal delivery systems for gene and drug delivery. This paper shows that transdermal delivery devices can potentially function for diverse healthcare and medical applications while further investigations are still necessary for more efficient skin penetration of gene and drugs.

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A fully dense and globally consistent 3D map reconstruction approach for GI tract to enhance therapeutic relevance of the endoscopic capsule robot

Turan, M., Pilavci, Y. Y., Jamiruddin, R., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06524, 2017 (article)

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In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract endoscopy field, ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is emerging as a novel, minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Since the development of this technology, medical device companies and many research groups have made substantial progress in converting passive capsule endoscopes to robotic active capsule endoscopes with most of the functionality of current active flexible endoscopes. However, robotic capsule endoscopy still has some challenges. In particular, the use of such devices to generate a precise three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the entire inner organ remains an unsolved problem. Such global 3D maps of inner organs would help doctors to detect the location and size of diseased areas more accurately and intuitively, thus permitting more reliable diagnoses. To our knowledge, this paper presents the first complete pipeline for a complete 3D visual map reconstruction of the stomach. The proposed pipeline is modular and includes a preprocessing module, an image registration module, and a final shape-from-shading-based 3D reconstruction module; the 3D map is primarily generated by a combination of image stitching and shape-from-shading techniques, and is updated in a frame-by-frame iterative fashion via capsule motion inside the stomach. A comprehensive quantitative analysis of the proposed 3D reconstruction method is performed using an esophagus gastro duodenoscopy simulator, three different endoscopic cameras, and a 3D optical scanner.

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A parametric texture model based on deep convolutional features closely matches texture appearance for humans

Wallis, T. S. A., Funke, C. M., Ecker, A. S., Gatys, L. A., Wichmann, F. A., Bethge, M.

Journal of Vision, 17(12), 2017 (article)

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ei Wallis, T. S. A., Funke, C. M., Ecker, A. S., Gatys, L. A., Wichmann, F. A., Bethge, M. A parametric texture model based on deep convolutional features closely matches texture appearance for humans Journal of Vision, 17(12), 2017 (article)

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Lens Depth Function and k-Relative Neighborhood Graph: Versatile Tools for Ordinal Data Analysis

Kleindessner, M., von Luxburg, U.

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18, 2017 (article)

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slt Kleindessner, M., von Luxburg, U. Lens Depth Function and k-Relative Neighborhood Graph: Versatile Tools for Ordinal Data Analysis Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18, 2017 (article)

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Functionalised metal-organic frameworks: a novel approach to stabilising single metal atoms

Szilágyi, P. Á., Rogers, D. M., Zaiser, I., Callini, E., Turner, S., Borgschulte, A., Züttel, A., Geerlings, H., Hirscher, M., Dam, B.

{Journal of Materials Chemistry A}, 5(30):15559-15566, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2017 (article)

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mms Szilágyi, P. Á., Rogers, D. M., Zaiser, I., Callini, E., Turner, S., Borgschulte, A., Züttel, A., Geerlings, H., Hirscher, M., Dam, B. Functionalised metal-organic frameworks: a novel approach to stabilising single metal atoms {Journal of Materials Chemistry A}, 5(30):15559-15566, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2017 (article)

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Exploiting diffusion barrier and chemical affinity of metal-organic frameworks for efficient hydrogen isotope separation

Kim, J. Y., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Zhang, L., Kang, S. G., Hirscher, M., Oh, H., Moon, H. R.

{Journal of the American Chemical Society}, 139(42):15135-15141, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2017 (article)

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mms Kim, J. Y., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Zhang, L., Kang, S. G., Hirscher, M., Oh, H., Moon, H. R. Exploiting diffusion barrier and chemical affinity of metal-organic frameworks for efficient hydrogen isotope separation {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, 139(42):15135-15141, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2017 (article)

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Facile fabrication of mesoporous silica micro-jets with multi-functionalities

Vilela, D., Hortelao, A. C., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Hirscher, M., Hahn, K., Ma, X., Sánchez, S.

{Nanoscale}, 9(37):13990-13997, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2017 (article)

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mms Vilela, D., Hortelao, A. C., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Hirscher, M., Hahn, K., Ma, X., Sánchez, S. Facile fabrication of mesoporous silica micro-jets with multi-functionalities {Nanoscale}, 9(37):13990-13997, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2017 (article)

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Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Models

Huang, T., Peng, H., Zhang, K.

Statistica Sinica, 27(1):147-169, 2017 (article)

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ei Huang, T., Peng, H., Zhang, K. Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Models Statistica Sinica, 27(1):147-169, 2017 (article)

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Sparse Inertial Poser: Automatic 3D Human Pose Estimation from Sparse IMUs

(Best Paper, Eurographics 2017)

Marcard, T. V., Rosenhahn, B., Black, M., Pons-Moll, G.

Computer Graphics Forum 36(2), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), pages: 349-360 , 2017 (article)

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We address the problem of making human motion capture in the wild more practical by using a small set of inertial sensors attached to the body. Since the problem is heavily under-constrained, previous methods either use a large number of sensors, which is intrusive, or they require additional video input. We take a different approach and constrain the problem by: (i) making use of a realistic statistical body model that includes anthropometric constraints and (ii) using a joint optimization framework to fit the model to orientation and acceleration measurements over multiple frames. The resulting tracker Sparse Inertial Poser (SIP) enables motion capture using only 6 sensors (attached to the wrists, lower legs, back and head) and works for arbitrary human motions. Experiments on the recently released TNT15 dataset show that, using the same number of sensors, SIP achieves higher accuracy than the dataset baseline without using any video data. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of SIP on newly recorded challenging motions in outdoor scenarios such as climbing or jumping over a wall

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ps Marcard, T. V., Rosenhahn, B., Black, M., Pons-Moll, G. Sparse Inertial Poser: Automatic 3D Human Pose Estimation from Sparse IMUs Computer Graphics Forum 36(2), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), pages: 349-360 , 2017 (article)

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Efficient 2D and 3D Facade Segmentation using Auto-Context

Gadde, R., Jampani, V., Marlet, R., Gehler, P.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017 (article)

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This paper introduces a fast and efficient segmentation technique for 2D images and 3D point clouds of building facades. Facades of buildings are highly structured and consequently most methods that have been proposed for this problem aim to make use of this strong prior information. Contrary to most prior work, we are describing a system that is almost domain independent and consists of standard segmentation methods. We train a sequence of boosted decision trees using auto-context features. This is learned using stacked generalization. We find that this technique performs better, or comparable with all previous published methods and present empirical results on all available 2D and 3D facade benchmark datasets. The proposed method is simple to implement, easy to extend, and very efficient at test-time inference.

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ps Gadde, R., Jampani, V., Marlet, R., Gehler, P. Efficient 2D and 3D Facade Segmentation using Auto-Context IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017 (article)

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ClothCap: Seamless 4D Clothing Capture and Retargeting

Pons-Moll, G., Pujades, S., Hu, S., Black, M.

ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 36(4):73:1-73:15, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2017, Two first authors contributed equally (article)

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Designing and simulating realistic clothing is challenging and, while several methods have addressed the capture of clothing from 3D scans, previous methods have been limited to single garments and simple motions, lack detail, or require specialized texture patterns. Here we address the problem of capturing regular clothing on fully dressed people in motion. People typically wear multiple pieces of clothing at a time. To estimate the shape of such clothing, track it over time, and render it believably, each garment must be segmented from the others and the body. Our ClothCap approach uses a new multi-part 3D model of clothed bodies, automatically segments each piece of clothing, estimates the naked body shape and pose under the clothing, and tracks the 3D deformations of the clothing over time. We estimate the garments and their motion from 4D scans; that is, high-resolution 3D scans of the subject in motion at 60 fps. The model allows us to capture a clothed person in motion, extract their clothing, and retarget the clothing to new body shapes. ClothCap provides a step towards virtual try-on with a technology for capturing, modeling, and analyzing clothing in motion.

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ps Pons-Moll, G., Pujades, S., Hu, S., Black, M. ClothCap: Seamless 4D Clothing Capture and Retargeting ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 36(4):73:1-73:15, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2017, Two first authors contributed equally (article)

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Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

Ceylan, H., Giltinan, J., Kozielski, K., Sitti, M.

Lab on a Chip, 17(10):1705-1724, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017 (article)

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Untethered micron-scale mobile robots can navigate and non-invasively perform specific tasks inside unprecedented and hard-to-reach inner human body sites and inside enclosed organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices with live cells. They are aimed to operate robustly and safely in complex physiological environments where they will have a transforming impact in bioengineering and healthcare. Research along this line has already demonstrated significant progress, increasing attention, and high promise over the past several years. The first-generation microrobots, which could deliver therapeutics and other cargo to targeted specific body sites, have just been started to be tested inside small animals toward clinical use. Here, we review frontline advances in design, fabrication, and testing of untethered mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications. We convey the most impactful and recent strategies in actuation, mobility, sensing, and other functional capabilities of mobile microrobots, and discuss their potential advantages and drawbacks to operate inside complex, enclosed and physiologically relevant environments. We lastly draw an outlook to provide directions in the veins of more sophisticated designs and applications, considering biodegradability, immunogenicity, mobility, sensing, and possible medical interventions in complex microenvironments.

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pi Ceylan, H., Giltinan, J., Kozielski, K., Sitti, M. Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications Lab on a Chip, 17(10):1705-1724, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017 (article)

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An image-computable psychophysical spatial vision model

Schütt, H. H., Wichmann, F. A.

Journal of Vision, 17(12), 2017 (article)

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ei Schütt, H. H., Wichmann, F. A. An image-computable psychophysical spatial vision model Journal of Vision, 17(12), 2017 (article)

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Methods and measurements to compare men against machines

Wichmann, F. A., Janssen, D. H. J., Geirhos, R., Aguilar, G., Schütt, H. H., Maertens, M., Bethge, M.

Electronic Imaging, pages: 36-45(10), 2017 (article)

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ei Wichmann, F. A., Janssen, D. H. J., Geirhos, R., Aguilar, G., Schütt, H. H., Maertens, M., Bethge, M. Methods and measurements to compare men against machines Electronic Imaging, pages: 36-45(10), 2017 (article)

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Surface tension-driven self-alignment

Mastrangeli, M., Zhou, Q., Sariola, V., Lambert, P.

Soft Matter, 13, pages: 304-327, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017 (article)

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Surface tension-driven self-alignment is a passive and highly-accurate positioning mechanism that can significantly simplify and enhance the construction of advanced microsystems. After years of research{,} demonstrations and developments{,} the surface engineering and manufacturing technology enabling capillary self-alignment has achieved a degree of maturity conducive to a successful transfer to industrial practice. In view of this transition{,} a broad and accessible review of the physics{,} material science and applications of capillary self-alignment is presented. Statics and dynamics of the self-aligning action of deformed liquid bridges are explained through simple models and experiments{,} and all fundamental aspects of surface patterning and conditioning{,} of choice{,} deposition and confinement of liquids{,} and of component feeding and interconnection to substrates are illustrated through relevant applications in micro- and nanotechnology. A final outline addresses remaining challenges and additional extensions envisioned to further spread the use and fully exploit the potential of the technique.

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pi Mastrangeli, M., Zhou, Q., Sariola, V., Lambert, P. Surface tension-driven self-alignment Soft Matter, 13, pages: 304-327, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017 (article)

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Design of a visualization scheme for functional connectivity data of Human Brain

Bramlage, L.

Hochschule Osnabrück - University of Applied Sciences, 2017 (thesis)

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A Comparison of Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models for Multimodal Manipulations With Variable Masses

Kroemer, O., Peters, J.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2):1101-1108, 2017 (article)

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ei Kroemer, O., Peters, J. A Comparison of Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models for Multimodal Manipulations With Variable Masses IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2):1101-1108, 2017 (article)

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Phase Estimation for Fast Action Recognition and Trajectory Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration

Maeda, G., Ewerton, M., Neumann, G., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J.

International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(13-14):1579-1594, 2017, Special Issue on the Seventeenth International Symposium on Robotics Research (article)

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ei Maeda, G., Ewerton, M., Neumann, G., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J. Phase Estimation for Fast Action Recognition and Trajectory Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(13-14):1579-1594, 2017, Special Issue on the Seventeenth International Symposium on Robotics Research (article)

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A Phase-coded Aperture Camera with Programmable Optics

Chen, J., Hirsch, M., Heintzmann, R., Eberhardt, B., Lensch, H. P. A.

Electronic Imaging, 2017(17):70-75, 2017 (article)

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ei Chen, J., Hirsch, M., Heintzmann, R., Eberhardt, B., Lensch, H. P. A. A Phase-coded Aperture Camera with Programmable Optics Electronic Imaging, 2017(17):70-75, 2017 (article)

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Selective hydrogen isotope separation via breathing transition in MIL-53(Al)

Kim, J. Y., Zhang, L., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Park, J., Hirscher, M., Moon, H. R., Oh, H.

{Journal of the American Chemical Society}, 139(49):17743-17746, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2017 (article)

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mms Kim, J. Y., Zhang, L., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Park, J., Hirscher, M., Moon, H. R., Oh, H. Selective hydrogen isotope separation via breathing transition in MIL-53(Al) {Journal of the American Chemical Society}, 139(49):17743-17746, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2017 (article)

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Efficient synthesis for large-scale production and characterization for hydrogen storage of ligand exchanged MOF-74/174/184-M (M\textequalsMg2+, Ni2+)

Oh, H., Maurer, S., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Arnold, L., Magdysyuk, O. V., Schütz, G., Müller, U., Hirscher, M.

{International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, 42(2):1027-1035, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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mms Oh, H., Maurer, S., Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R., Arnold, L., Magdysyuk, O. V., Schütz, G., Müller, U., Hirscher, M. Efficient synthesis for large-scale production and characterization for hydrogen storage of ligand exchanged MOF-74/174/184-M (M\textequalsMg2+, Ni2+) {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, 42(2):1027-1035, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles: Problems, Datasets and State-of-the-Art

Janai, J., Güney, F., Behl, A., Geiger, A.

Arxiv, 2017 (article)

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Recent years have witnessed amazing progress in AI related fields such as computer vision, machine learning and autonomous vehicles. As with any rapidly growing field, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay up-to-date or enter the field as a beginner. While several topic specific survey papers have been written, to date no general survey on problems, datasets and methods in computer vision for autonomous vehicles exists. This paper attempts to narrow this gap by providing a state-of-the-art survey on this topic. Our survey includes both the historically most relevant literature as well as the current state-of-the-art on several specific topics, including recognition, reconstruction, motion estimation, tracking, scene understanding and end-to-end learning. Towards this goal, we first provide a taxonomy to classify each approach and then analyze the performance of the state-of-the-art on several challenging benchmarking datasets including KITTI, ISPRS, MOT and Cityscapes. Besides, we discuss open problems and current research challenges. To ease accessibility and accommodate missing references, we will also provide an interactive platform which allows to navigate topics and methods, and provides additional information and project links for each paper.

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A Deep Learning Based 6 Degree-of-Freedom Localization Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.

arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05435, 2017 (article)

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We present a robust deep learning based 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) localization system for endoscopic capsule robots. Our system mainly focuses on localization of endoscopic capsule robots inside the GI tract using only visual information captured by a mono camera integrated to the robot. The proposed system is a 23-layer deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that is capable to estimate the pose of the robot in real time using a standard CPU. The dataset for the evaluation of the system was recorded inside a surgical human stomach model with realistic surface texture, softness, and surface liquid properties so that the pre-trained CNN architecture can be transferred confidently into a real endoscopic scenario. An average error of 7.1% and 3.4% for translation and rotation has been obtained, respectively. The results accomplished from the experiments demonstrate that a CNN pre-trained with raw 2D endoscopic images performs accurately inside the GI tract and is robust to various challenges posed by reflection distortions, lens imperfections, vignetting, noise, motion blur, low resolution, and lack of unique landmarks to track.

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Efficiency of analytical and sampling-based uncertainty propagation in intensity-modulated proton therapy

Wahl, N., Hennig, P., Wieser, H. P., Bangert, M.

Physics in Medicine & Biology, 62(14):5790-5807, 2017 (article)

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The sensitivity of intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) treatment plans to uncertainties can be quantified and mitigated with robust/min-max and stochastic/probabilistic treatment analysis and optimization techniques. Those methods usually rely on sparse random, importance, or worst-case sampling. Inevitably, this imposes a trade-off between computational speed and accuracy of the uncertainty propagation. Here, we investigate analytical probabilistic modeling (APM) as an alternative for uncertainty propagation and minimization in IMPT that does not rely on scenario sampling. APM propagates probability distributions over range and setup uncertainties via a Gaussian pencil-beam approximation into moments of the probability distributions over the resulting dose in closed form. It supports arbitrary correlation models and allows for efficient incorporation of fractionation effects regarding random and systematic errors. We evaluate the trade-off between run-time and accuracy of APM uncertainty computations on three patient datasets. Results are compared against reference computations facilitating importance and random sampling. Two approximation techniques to accelerate uncertainty propagation and minimization based on probabilistic treatment plan optimization are presented. Runtimes are measured on CPU and GPU platforms, dosimetric accuracy is quantified in comparison to a sampling-based benchmark (5000 random samples). APM accurately propagates range and setup uncertainties into dose uncertainties at competitive run-times (GPU ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0031-9155/62/14/5790/pmbaa6ec5ieqn001.gif] {$\leqslant {5}$} min). The resulting standard deviation (expectation value) of dose show average global ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0031-9155/62/14/5790/pmbaa6ec5ieqn002.gif] {$\gamma_{{3}\% / {3}~{\rm mm}}$} pass rates between 94.2% and 99.9% (98.4% and 100.0%). All investigated importance sampling strategies provided less accuracy at higher run-times considering only a single fraction. Considering fractionation, APM uncertainty propagation and treatment plan optimization was proven to be possible at constant time complexity, while run-times of sampling-based computations are linear in the number of fractions. Using sum sampling within APM, uncertainty propagation can only be accelerated at the cost of reduced accuracy in variance calculations. For probabilistic plan optimization, we were able to approximate the necessary pre-computations within seconds, yielding treatment plans of similar quality as gained from exact uncertainty propagation. APM is suited to enhance the trade-off between speed and accuracy in uncertainty propagation and probabilistic treatment plan optimization, especially in the context of fractionation. This brings fully-fledged APM computations within reach of clinical application.

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pn Wahl, N., Hennig, P., Wieser, H. P., Bangert, M. Efficiency of analytical and sampling-based uncertainty propagation in intensity-modulated proton therapy Physics in Medicine & Biology, 62(14):5790-5807, 2017 (article)

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Deep EndoVO: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) based Visual Odometry Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M.

ArXiv e-prints, 2017 (article)

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Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Medical device companies and many research groups have recently made substantial progresses in converting passive capsule endoscopes to active capsule robots, enabling more accurate, precise, and intuitive detection of the location and size of the diseased areas. Since a reliable real time pose estimation functionality is crucial for actively controlled endoscopic capsule robots, in this study, we propose a monocular visual odometry (VO) method for endoscopic capsule robot operations. Our method lies on the application of the deep Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNNs) for the visual odometry task, where Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used for the feature extraction and inference of dynamics across the frames, respectively. Detailed analyses and evaluations made on a real pig stomach dataset proves that our system achieves high translational and rotational accuracies for different types of endoscopic capsule robot trajectories.

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Analytical probabilistic modeling of RBE-weighted dose for ion therapy

Wieser, H., Hennig, P., Wahl, N., Bangert, M.

Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), 62(23):8959-8982, 2017 (article)

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pn Wieser, H., Hennig, P., Wahl, N., Bangert, M. Analytical probabilistic modeling of RBE-weighted dose for ion therapy Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB), 62(23):8959-8982, 2017 (article)

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On Maximum Entropy and Inference

Gresele, L., Marsili, M.

Entropy, 19(12):article no. 642, 2017 (article)

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ei Gresele, L., Marsili, M. On Maximum Entropy and Inference Entropy, 19(12):article no. 642, 2017 (article)

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Towards Engagement Models that Consider Individual Factors in HRI: On the Relation of Extroversion and Negative Attitude Towards Robots to Gaze and Speech During a Human-Robot Assembly Task

Ivaldi, S., Lefort, S., Peters, J., Chetouani, M., Provasi, J., Zibetti, E.

International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(1):63-86, 2017 (article)

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ei Ivaldi, S., Lefort, S., Peters, J., Chetouani, M., Provasi, J., Zibetti, E. Towards Engagement Models that Consider Individual Factors in HRI: On the Relation of Extroversion and Negative Attitude Towards Robots to Gaze and Speech During a Human-Robot Assembly Task International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(1):63-86, 2017 (article)

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Non-parametric Policy Search with Limited Information Loss

van Hoof, H., Neumann, G., Peters, J.

Journal of Machine Learning Research , 18(73):1-46, 2017 (article)

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ei van Hoof, H., Neumann, G., Peters, J. Non-parametric Policy Search with Limited Information Loss Journal of Machine Learning Research , 18(73):1-46, 2017 (article)

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Stability of Controllers for Gaussian Process Dynamics

Vinogradska, J., Bischoff, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Peters, J.

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(100):1-37, 2017 (article)

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ei Vinogradska, J., Bischoff, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Peters, J. Stability of Controllers for Gaussian Process Dynamics Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(100):1-37, 2017 (article)

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SUV-quantification of physiological lung tissue in an integrated PET/MR-system: Impact of lung density and bone tissue

Seith, F., Schmidt, H., Gatidis, S., Bezrukov, I., Schraml, C., Pfannenberg, C., la Fougère, C., Nikolaou, K., Schwenzer, N.

PLOS ONE, 12(5):1-13, 2017 (article)

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ei Seith, F., Schmidt, H., Gatidis, S., Bezrukov, I., Schraml, C., Pfannenberg, C., la Fougère, C., Nikolaou, K., Schwenzer, N. SUV-quantification of physiological lung tissue in an integrated PET/MR-system: Impact of lung density and bone tissue PLOS ONE, 12(5):1-13, 2017 (article)

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Corrosion-protected hybrid nanoparticles

Jeong, H., Alarcón-Correa, M., Mark, A. G., Son, K., Lee, T., Fischer, P.

{Advanced Science}, 4(12), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2017 (article)

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mms Jeong, H., Alarcón-Correa, M., Mark, A. G., Son, K., Lee, T., Fischer, P. Corrosion-protected hybrid nanoparticles {Advanced Science}, 4(12), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2017 (article)

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Investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and room temperature skyrmions in W/CoFeB/MgO thin films and microwires

Jaiswal, S., Litzius, K., Lemesh, I., Büttner, F., Finizio, S., Raabe, J., Weigand, M., Lee, K., Langer, J., Ocker, B., Jakob, G., Beach, G. S. D., Kläui, M.

{Applied Physics Letters}, 111(2), American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2017 (article)

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mms Jaiswal, S., Litzius, K., Lemesh, I., Büttner, F., Finizio, S., Raabe, J., Weigand, M., Lee, K., Langer, J., Ocker, B., Jakob, G., Beach, G. S. D., Kläui, M. Investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and room temperature skyrmions in W/CoFeB/MgO thin films and microwires {Applied Physics Letters}, 111(2), American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2017 (article)

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Ultrafast demagnetization after femtosecond laser pulses: Transfer of angular momentum from the electronic system to magnetoelastic spin-phonon modes

Fähnle, M., Tsatsoulis, T., Illg, C., Haag, M., Müller, B. Y., Zhang, L.

{Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, 30(5):1381-1387, Springer Science + Business Media B.V., New York, 2017 (article)

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mms Fähnle, M., Tsatsoulis, T., Illg, C., Haag, M., Müller, B. Y., Zhang, L. Ultrafast demagnetization after femtosecond laser pulses: Transfer of angular momentum from the electronic system to magnetoelastic spin-phonon modes {Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism}, 30(5):1381-1387, Springer Science + Business Media B.V., New York, 2017 (article)

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Magnetic behavior of single chain magnets in metal organic frameworks CPO-27-Co

Son, K., Goering, E., Hirscher, M., Oh, H.

{Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology}, 17(10):7541-7546, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., 2017 (article)

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mms Son, K., Goering, E., Hirscher, M., Oh, H. Magnetic behavior of single chain magnets in metal organic frameworks CPO-27-Co {Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology}, 17(10):7541-7546, American Scientific Publishers, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., 2017 (article)

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Switching by domain-wall automotion in asymmetric ferromagnetic rings

Mawass, M., Richter, K., Bisig, A., Reeve, R. M., Krüger, B., Weigand, M., Stoll, H., Krone, A., Kronast, F., Schütz, G., Kläui, M.

{Physical Review Applied}, 7(4), American Physical Society, College Park, Md. [u.a.], 2017 (article)

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mms Mawass, M., Richter, K., Bisig, A., Reeve, R. M., Krüger, B., Weigand, M., Stoll, H., Krone, A., Kronast, F., Schütz, G., Kläui, M. Switching by domain-wall automotion in asymmetric ferromagnetic rings {Physical Review Applied}, 7(4), American Physical Society, College Park, Md. [u.a.], 2017 (article)

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A neutral atom moving in an external magnetic field does not feel a Lorentz force

Fähnle, M.

{American Journal of Modern Physics}, 6(6):153-155, Science Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2017 (article)

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mms Fähnle, M. A neutral atom moving in an external magnetic field does not feel a Lorentz force {American Journal of Modern Physics}, 6(6):153-155, Science Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2017 (article)

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Temperature-dependent first-order reversal curve measurements on unusually hard magnetic low-temperature phase of MnBi

Muralidhar, S., Gräfe, J., Chen, Y., Etter, M., Gregori, G., Ener, S., Sawatzki, S., Hono, K., Gutfleisch, O., Kronmüller, H., Schütz, G., Goering, E. J.

{Physical Review B}, 95(2), American Physical Society, Woodbury, NY, 2017 (article)

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mms Muralidhar, S., Gräfe, J., Chen, Y., Etter, M., Gregori, G., Ener, S., Sawatzki, S., Hono, K., Gutfleisch, O., Kronmüller, H., Schütz, G., Goering, E. J. Temperature-dependent first-order reversal curve measurements on unusually hard magnetic low-temperature phase of MnBi {Physical Review B}, 95(2), American Physical Society, Woodbury, NY, 2017 (article)

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Smooth and rapid microwave synthesis of MIL-53(Fe) including superparamagnetic \textlessgamma\textgreater-Fe2O3 nanoparticles

Wengert, S., Albrecht, J., Ruoß, S., Stahl, C., Schütz, G., Schäfer, R.

{Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials}, 444, pages: 168-172, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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mms Wengert, S., Albrecht, J., Ruoß, S., Stahl, C., Schütz, G., Schäfer, R. Smooth and rapid microwave synthesis of MIL-53(Fe) including superparamagnetic \textlessgamma\textgreater-Fe2O3 nanoparticles {Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials}, 444, pages: 168-172, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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Characterization and differentiation of rock varnish types from different environments by microanalytical techniques

Macholdt, D. S., Jochum, K. P., Pöhlker, C., Arangio, A., Förster, J., Stoll, B., Weis, U., Weber, B., Müller, M., Kappl, M., Shiraiwa, M., Kilcoyne, A. L. D., Weigand, M., Scholz, D., Haug, G. H., Al-Amri, A., Andreae, M. O.

{Chemical Geology}, 459, pages: 91-118, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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mms Macholdt, D. S., Jochum, K. P., Pöhlker, C., Arangio, A., Förster, J., Stoll, B., Weis, U., Weber, B., Müller, M., Kappl, M., Shiraiwa, M., Kilcoyne, A. L. D., Weigand, M., Scholz, D., Haug, G. H., Al-Amri, A., Andreae, M. O. Characterization and differentiation of rock varnish types from different environments by microanalytical techniques {Chemical Geology}, 459, pages: 91-118, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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Skyrmion Hall effect revealed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy

Litzius, K., Lemesh, I., Krüger, B., Bassirian, P., Caretta, L., Richter, K., Büttner, F., Sato, K., Tretiakov, O. A., Förster, J., Reeve, R. M., Weigand, M., Bykova, I., Stoll, H., Schütz, G., Beach, G. S. D., Kläui, M.

{Nature Physics}, 13(2):170-175, Nature Pub. Group, London, 2017 (article)

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mms Litzius, K., Lemesh, I., Krüger, B., Bassirian, P., Caretta, L., Richter, K., Büttner, F., Sato, K., Tretiakov, O. A., Förster, J., Reeve, R. M., Weigand, M., Bykova, I., Stoll, H., Schütz, G., Beach, G. S. D., Kläui, M. Skyrmion Hall effect revealed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy {Nature Physics}, 13(2):170-175, Nature Pub. Group, London, 2017 (article)

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Comment on magnonic black holes

Fähnle, M., Schütz, G.

{Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials}, 444, pages: 146-146, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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mms Fähnle, M., Schütz, G. Comment on magnonic black holes {Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials}, 444, pages: 146-146, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 (article)

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Cr-Substitution in Ba2In2O5 \mbox⋅ (H2O)x (x \textequals 0.16, 0.74)

Yoon, S., Son, K., Hagemann, H., Widenmeyer, M., Weidenkaff, A.

{Solid State Sciences}, 73, pages: 1-6, Elsevier Masson SAS, Paris, 2017 (article)

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mms Yoon, S., Son, K., Hagemann, H., Widenmeyer, M., Weidenkaff, A. Cr-Substitution in Ba2In2O5 \mbox⋅ (H2O)x (x \textequals 0.16, 0.74) {Solid State Sciences}, 73, pages: 1-6, Elsevier Masson SAS, Paris, 2017 (article)

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