Soft actuator is the main technology that drives development of soft robotics as it defines capabilities machines. One key challenges in research to simultaneously produce complex morphing (e.g., surface morphing) and high force. Therefore, a robotic pad (SRP) was developed new can potentially tackle this challenge. This article demonstrates highly flexible customization process SRP regarding f...

A visual illusion is presented in which the perceived changes in a morphing sequence depend on eye movements. The phenomenon is illustrated using face morphs: when tracking a moving dot superimposed on a face morphing sequence, the changes in the morphing sequence seem rather small, but when the dot stops moving, the perceived extent of morphing suddenly becomes much larger. We explore this phe...

A surface light field is a function that gives the colors of each object point viewed from different directions. Object representation with a surface light field provides a nice structure for 3D photography. This paper presents a feature-based morphing technique for two objects equipped with surface light fields. The technique consists of geometry morphing and in-between light field mapping. Ge...

Contemporary morphing designs are focused towards enabling a vehicle to transition from one distinct flight regime to another. Such a change often requires highly complex morphing that is designed to address both aerodynamic performance and handling criteria. The University of Florida has developed a morphing demonstrator to investigate the effect of a biologically-inspired gull-wing morphing o...

A morphing malware is malicious software that uses a code morphing program, ormorphing engine, to transform its own code into a morphed variant. The goal ofthis transformation is to evade recognition by malware detectors. This dissertationproposes and evaluates a new method for detecting morphed malware variants. The method uses information about the morphing engine to recognize var...

Volume morphing is a technique used for generating smooth 3D image transformations and deformations. In this paper, several algorithms are developed for morphing transformations that create new forms and simulate shape deformation and growth in biomedical applications. 3D biological point landmarks and their movements are deened to guide the morphing transformation using a scattered data interp...

Image morphing has been the subject of much attention in recent years. It has proven to be a powerful visual effects tool in film and television, depicting the fluid transformation of one digital image into another. This paper reviews the growth of this field and describes recent advances in image morphing in terms of three areas: feature specification, warp generation methods, and transition c...

We propose a new animation technique, called flock morphing, to create special morphing effects between two arbitrary 3D objects by combining the features of 3D morphing and flock animation. Its core idea is first to tetrahedralize the source 3D mesh and regard each tetrahedron as an agent in a flock and then continually generate the flock morphing animation until the target mesh emerges, forme...

The common goal of all aerospace advancements is safe, efficient air transportation. Current methods for achieving directional stability—control surfaces such as flaps and ailerons—are heavy and inefficient. If these bulky mechanisms were replaced with an ultra-lightweight morphing structure, efficiency could be increased by cutting drag and weight. In this project, an active truss structure ha...