Automatic landmark correspondence detection in medical images with an application to deformable image registration

Purpose: Deformable image registration (DIR) can benefit from additional guidance using corresponding landmarks in the images. However, the benefits thereof are largely understudied, especially due to the lack of automatic landmark detection methods for three-dimensional (3D) medical images. Approach: We present a deep convolutional neural...

AnyoneNet: Synchronized Speech and Talking Head Generation for Arbitrary Persons

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate synchronized speech and talking-head videos on the basis of text and a single face image of an arbitrary...

Conditioning continuous-time Markov processes by guiding

A continuous-time Markov process X can be conditioned to be in a given state at a fixed time T>0 using Doob's h-transform. This transform requires the typically intractable transition density of X. The effect of the h-transform can be described as introducing a guiding force on the process. Replacing this force with an approximation...

Diffusion Bridges for Stochastic Hamiltonian Systems and Shape Evolutions

Stochastically evolving geometric systems are studied in shape analysis and computational anatomy for modeling random evolutions of human organ shapes. The notion of geodesic paths between shapes is central to shape analysis and has a natural generalization as diffusion bridges in a stochastic setting. Simulation of such bridges is key to...

Precision and Reliability of Tightly Coupled PPP GNSS and Landmark Monocular Vision Positioning

This paper presents an approach to analyse the quality, in terms of precision and reliability, of a system which integrates-at the observation-level-landmark positions and GNSS measurements, obtained with a single camera and a digital map, and a single frequency GNSS receiver respectively. We illustrate the analysis by means of design...

Cognitive aspects of movement in urban design

An approach for indoor wayfinding replicating main principles of an outdoor navigation system for cyclists

This work presents an approach to enhance navigation in indoor environments based on a landmark concept. It has already been proved by empirical research that by using landmarks the wayfinding task can be significantly simplified. Navigation based on landmarks relies on the presence of landmarks at each point along a route where wayfinders might...

Indoor Signposting and Wayfinding through an Adaptation of the Dutch Cyclist Junction Network System

Finding's ones way in complex indoor settings can be a quite stressful and time-consuming task, especially for users unfamiliar with the environment. There have been developed several different approaches to provide wayfinding assistance in order to guide a person from a starting point to a destination but none of them has emerged to be...

Database guided detection of anatomical landmark points in 3D images of the heart