Papers by Author: Xiao Ming Hu

Abstract: Endoscopic surgery is increasing for minimally invasive treatment in recent years.But the conventional two-dimensional endoscope technique cannot provide three-dimensional information for surgeon. Lacking depth and other 3D information often made doctorshave to carry out the surgery depending heavily clinical experience.In response to the above described issues,this paper proposed a method based on improved SIFT algorithmto recover 3D structure information of the endoscopic environment, with the help of an optical tracking system which can provide the orientation of the camera in real time. The proposed approach is evaluated on sequence digital images gotten from an 1394 camera and the experimental results show that the proposed approach iseffective.

Abstract: Motion tracking has shown promise as a powerful technique to improve interaction function in Virtual Reality (VR).Users can interact naturally with virtual environment by using body motion as the interface. This paper presents a design of a telescope-style interaction system combined with an inertial/magnetic motion tracking unit for users’ interacting with the virtual environment and a near-to-eye display system supplying visual virtual environment to users. Since the movement acceleration will cause the error of accelerometer measurement, users will feel uncomfortable and cannot interact well with the virtual environment because of pictures’ jitter. To enhance the user's immersion in the virtual environment, a Kalman filter is designed to ensure the accuracy of users’ motion information. Performance of the estimation’s precision is shown in the experiments and results.