Abstract:Abstract-In order to assist a surgeon while operating on a beating heart, visual stabilization makes the beating heart appear still by providing the current heart view as stationary and non-moving. In this way, the surgeon is not disturbed during an operation by the motion of the heart and has the impression of performing conventional surgery. In contrast to existing methods for visual stabilization, the proposed approach involves a model-based transformation of image sequences provided by a camera system. Thi… Show more
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