Here is my
contact info.
Here is my resume/CV:
text,
pdf,
MS Word.
Thesis
The final version of my written dissertation is available here as a
pdf.
The oral defense of my thesis was on Friday, May 23rd, 2003.
The talk is available here as
powerpoint slides.
Papers and Presentations
1. "Real-time Knot Tying Simulation," by
Joel Brown, Jean-Claude Latombe, and Kevin Montgomery.
Appeared in The Visual Computer, volume 20, numbers 2-3, pages 165-179
(TVC website)
in May 2004.
Also presented at the Dimacs Workshop on Medical Applications in
Computational Geometry, Rutgers, New Jersey, April, 2003:
pdf,
powerpoint slides
2. "Algorithmic Tools for Real-Time Microsurgery Simulation," by
Joel Brown, Stephen Sorkin, Jean-Claude Latombe, Kevin Montgomery,
and Michael Stephanides.
Appeared in Medical Image Analysis, volume 6, number 3
(MedIA website) in September 2002:
pdf,
postscript,
bibtex entry
3. "Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Objects: Tools and Application," by
Joel Brown, Stephen Sorkin, Cynthia Bruyns, Jean-Claude Latombe,
Kevin Montgomery, and Michael Stephanides.
Appeared in and presented at Computer Animation 2001, Seoul, South Korea,
November 2001:
pdf,
bibtex entry,
powerpoint slides
4. "A Microsurgery Simulation System," by
Joel Brown, Kevin Montgomery, Jean-Claude Latombe,
and Michael Stephanides.
Appeared in and presented at
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2001),
Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2001:
pdf,
bibtex entry,
powerpoint slides
Bibliography of works I've cited:
pdf,
bibtex
Jonsson visit
A very short presentation of my work for the Jonsson visit (July 16):
powerpoint slides
1st video (vessel deformations)
2nd video (simple knot tying)
3rd video (microsurgery interactions)
All of these videos are real-time, captured live from our simulator.
Knot-tying videos:
video 0: Introduction
video 1: A piece of rope
loops over itself and comes into contact with itself.
video 2: The rope is
tied into two trefoil (or overhand) knots.
video 3: I wrap the rope twice
around a pole, pull it, and move the pole.
video 4: I tie the 5 crossing
knot called 5.2, and tighten it.
video 5: I try to tie the
same 5 crossing knot, but my first two crossings have the wrong over/under, so I
end up with a slip knot.
video 6: I tie the bowline,
a common sailing knot.
video 7: I tie a cow hitch
around a ring.
video 8: I wrap the rope
around a pole and a ring, tie knot 5.1, and then pull the knot out
Suturing and soft-tissue deformation videos:
video 9: This shows various
interactions between vessels, tools, and suture
video 10: Some simple vessel
deformations
video 11: Some simple cube
deformations
Images
Here are several still knot images from the simulator:
daisy chain,
clove hitch,
alpine butterfly,
bowline,
prusik knot,
shoelace,
square knot,
surgeon's knot,
cow hitch,
figure 8,
knot "5.2" vs.
"unknot" (apropos of videos 4 and 5),
knot "8.1"
Here are images of various microsurgery interactions:
interaction 1,
interaction 2,
interaction 3,
interaction 4,
interaction 5,
interaction 6,
interaction 7,
interaction 8,
interaction 9
For Konstantinos:
6.7a,
6.7b
