We review the current status of lattice QCD studies of the nucleon system. In particular, we focus on the determination of the shape of the nucleon by probing its wave function as well as by evaluating the N to ∆ transition form factors.

In this work, we extend a previously demonstrated entropy based groupwise registration method to include a free-form deformation model based on B-splines. We provide an efficient implementation using stochastic gradient descents in a multi-resolution setting. We demonstrate the method in application to a set of 50 MRI brain scans and compare the results to a pairwise approach using segmentation...

Curve-pair based deformation is an extension of axial deformation for providing more intuitive and convenient control of object deformation. In this paper, we investigate the problem of direct manipulation of curve-pair based deformation with geometric constraints. With different objective functions, two kinds of constrained optimization problems are derived from the direct manipulation problem...

Kurzfassung. Im Rahmen der Adaptiven Strahlentherapie müssen zum Behandlungszeitpunkt Abweichungen der aktuellen Patientengeometrie von den Planungsdaten bekannt sein, damit eine Anpassung des Bestrahlungsplans vorgenommen werden kann. State of the Art ist in diesem Zusammenhang die rigide Registrierung von Planungsund Kontrolldaten. Hierbei werden jedoch komplexere, nichtrigide Deformationen n...

Surgical simulations with the aid of computers is a topic of increasingly extensive research. Real-time response and interactivity are crucial components of any such system and a major effort has been invested in finding ways to improve the performance of existing systems. In this paper, we propose the use of a new variant of Free Form Deformations that supports discontinuities (DFFD) in comple...

The choice of an adequate representation is an important part of every evolutionary design optimisation. A exible representation which allows a huge number of design variation while getting along with a few parameters is preferable. In the past the Free-From Deformation method was successfully applied for design optimisation. In this diploma thesis an adaptive Free-Form Deformation is combined ...

This paper proposes a deformation technique called Planar Bones, derived from Surface-oriented Free Form Deformations, and explores its application to the context of Facial Animation. The warping method proposed uses as the control input a polygonal mesh, which is built as a triangulation of the Feature Points defined by MPEG-4. A strong correspondence between the facial geometry and this contr...

Integrated field data, microstructural and three-dimensional strain analyses are used to document coaxial N-S shortening and southward increase in deformation intensity and metamorphism at the Jiaochang structure. Two episodes of deformation (D1,D2) with localized post-D2 deformation have been identified in the area. The first deformation (D1) episode is defined by a main axial-plane of paralle...

Accurate Free-Form Deformation is an analytical solution of deformation sampling, where a polygonal object is deformed as a set of trimmed Bézier surfaces. However, the operation is far from being interactive due to its high computational cost. In this paper, we proposed a real-time B-spline FreeForm Deformation of polygonal objects via GPU acceleration. Various time-consuming evaluations are d...

Cells are exposed during their lifetimes to an array of physical forces ranging from those generated by association with other cells and extracellular matrices to the constant forces placed on cells by gravity. Alterations in these forces, either with differentiation and development or changes in activity or behavior, result in modifications in the biochemistry and adaptation in structure and f...