In this paper we propose a probabilistic approach to groupwise registration of unstructured high-dimensional point sets. We focus on registration of generalised point sets which encapsulate both the positions of points on surface boundaries and corresponding normal vectors describing local surface geometry. Richer descriptions of shape can be especially valuable in applications involving comple...

Modeling the deformable shape of the left atrium is of strong interest for many applications in cardiac diagnosis and intervention. In this paper, we propose a method for left atrium shape modeling using non-rigid point cloud registration. In particular, we build upon the concept of Coherent Point Drift (CPD) registration that considers the alignment as a probability density estimation problem....

This paper presents a new feature matching algorithm for nonrigid multimodal image registration. The proposed algorithm first constructs phase congruency representations (PCR) of images to be registered. Then scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) method is applied to capture significant feature points from PCR. Subsequently, the putative matching is obtained by the nearest neighbour matching...

| Code division multiple access (CDMA) has been proposed for use in ber high speed point-to-point systems. Previous research into CDMA has centered on completely coherent detection, that is, when the phases of all users in the system are known or tracked. While coherent detection is a reasonable assumption in many radio frequency systems, semiconductor lasers suuer from serious phase variation ...

Coherent drift modes and drift wave turbulence is studied in a collisionality dominated high-density helicon plasma. The drift wave instability is identified by comparison of the drift mode density fluctuations characteristics with a linear dispersion relation, which reproduces the experimentally observed bent eigenmode structures due to radial gradients of the collisionality profile. Special a...

Zonal flows are azimuthally symmetric plasma potential perturbations spontaneously generated from small-scale drift-wave fluctuations via the action of Reynolds stresses. We show that, after initial linear growth, zonal flows can undergo further nonlinear evolution leading to the formation of long-lived coherent structures which consist of self-bound wave packets supporting stationary shear lay...