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&quot;In this work, we present a viewpoint selection method specif-
ically designed for fibrous structures in a pre-operative context. A view
quality metric based on entropy was developed, which integrates the typ-
ical requirements of surgery planning. We applied our approach in the
case of cranial nerves surrounding skull base tumors. The relevance of the
viewpoints selected by our method was assessed qualitatively by a neu-
rosurgeon and quantitatively based on statistical tests. These viewpoints
were proven to have a high informative content, and therefore to enable a
good understanding and mental representation the 3D anatomical scene
in a pre-operative context.&quot;

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Viewpoint selection for fibrous structures in a pre-operative context: application to cranial nerves surrounding skull base tumors

surgical planning

skull base tumor

cranial nerves

fiber tractography

viewpoint selection

entropy

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"In this work, we present a viewpoint selection method specif-
ically designed for fibrous structures in a pre-operative context. A view
quality metric based on entropy was developed, which integrates the typ-
ical requirements of surgery planning. We applied our approach in the
case of cranial nerves surrounding skull base tumors. The relevance of the
viewpoints selected by our method was assessed qualitatively by a neu-
rosurgeon and quantitatively based on statistical tests. These viewpoints
were proven to have a high informative content, and therefore to enable a
good understanding and mental representation the 3D anatomical scene
in a pre-operative context."

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The goal of this paper is to study the impact of
elevation mask angle and observation geometry on the position
accuracy of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The
precision of the user's location measurement relies on the dynamic
interaction of many factors. In the last decade, with the upgrade
and deployment of new satellite systems, there is an increase
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We propose a system for digital documentation and presentation of museum collection objects that goes beyond the object appearance and can capture the object function and tell a story associated with the object. Museum cura-tors can prepare, without programming, interactive digital storytelling expe-riences for visitors about the object creation, restoration or to learn about the cultural history and societal development.

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An event-based looming objects detection algorithm for asynchronous event-based cameras is presented. The algorithm is fast and accurate both in the detecting the correct number of objects as well as whether the objects are looming.

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The aim of this paper is to present a method for source detection within unknown mixtures using several measurement modalities. Contrary to the well studied case of single source detection, this approach enables simultaneous detection of multiple sources by exploiting the mixing coefficients resulting from supervised linear unmixing and thresholded non-negative least squares. The first contribution of this work is to propose an automated procedure to compute an optimized binary classifier rule for each source independently using a database of known mixtures. The second contribution is to propose a global decision rule based on the fusion of the multimodal decisions using weighting schemes such as those used in multiple classifier systems (MCS). A real database of Ion Mobiliy Mass Spectrometry (IMMS) data is used to evaluate the detection performance. An increase of the detection accuracy is reached using the multiple thresholds within the independent classifiers approach as compared to single modality detection.

Supervised Mixture Analysis and Source Detection from Multimodal Measurements

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Static and Dynamic Point Cloud Compression by TSPLVQ

More than three quarters of world network data traffic is already video-related. This content does not only consist of professional and user generated clips, video from streamed and downloaded services and media pre-recorded or generated on the fly, but also content with different degrees of interactivity. Rich media also includes multi-sensorial media, omnidirectional video and mixed reality content. This content can be consumed at home, at work, in public places by a heterogeneous user population, while static or on the move. A wide range of devices contributes to generation and use of this content is being distributed over a network environment which is also highly heterogeneous. Challenges of transmitting this rich media content are highlighted and several solutions to support high quality, performance and/or energy efficiency of rich media delivery in such a complex context are presented.

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The paper focuses on three basic topics: an online environment for sharing of in-novative teaching materials; design and implementation of modern teaching mate-rials; and description of advanced types of learning objects used in such materi-als.
In these days we are about to conclude a set of projects that deal with develop-ment of highly innovative teaching materials and the environments needed for their delivery to the target groups. The most visible output of these projects is an online portal that provides access to hundreds of completely new teaching ma-terials containing a large number of learning objects.
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