arXiv:2609.14313v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robust point tracking in endoscopic videos is essential for computer-assisted intervention and autonomous robotic surgery, enabling continuous regist...
By Jiaming Zhang, Zijian Wu, Mehran Armand, Septimiu Salcudean
arXiv:2609.16686v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Estimating deformable object states remains a fundamental challenge in robotics and simulation. We propose a novel factor graph-based framework for p...
By Lidia Al-Zogbi, Fangjie Li, Samuel Tobin, James Ferguson, Nithesh Kumar, Alejandro Chara, Kuan-I Chung, Mingxing Rao, Ayberk Acar, Susheela Sharma Stern, Robert Webster, Daniel Moyer, Alan Kuntz, Caleb Rucker, Tucker Hermans, Jie Ying Wu
arXiv:2606. 17379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate intraoperative liver registration is challenging due to substantial soft-tissue deformation yet sparse intraoperative measurements.
By Casey Meisenzahl, Jon Heiselman, Michael Holtz, Yubo Ye, Michael Miga, Linwei Wang
arXiv:2607. 17810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D--2D liver registration, which aligns preoperative 3D models to partial, view-dependent intraoperative surface observations, is critical for AR-guided laparoscopic surgery but remains challenging due to severe occlusion, limited visibility, and the lack of 3D ground-truth supervision.
By Jiaming Feng, Xukun Zhang, Shahid Farid, Sharib Ali
The paper introduces PICO, an end-to-end trainable model for 6DoF surgical tool pose estimation that uses multi-task learning to predict segmentation, depth, and pose parameters. It incorporates two geometry-aware proxy tasks—a projection loss and a point-to-point loss—to enforce consistency in 2D and 3D spaces, improving accuracy and robustness. Evaluated on the SurgRIPE dataset, PICO achieves strong performance, ranking second in rotation accuracy and maintaining competitive translation results, especially under occlusion.
By Lucy Fothergill, Pietro Valdastri, Dominic Jones, Duygu Sarikaya
arXiv:2609.27227v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Objective assessment of robotic surgery uses instrument kinematics, which must be reconstructed when only video is available. We introduce a kinematic...
By Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, Soham Samal, Zoran Kostic