Summary of Flex: Joint Pose and Dynamic Radiance Fields Optimization For Stereo Endoscopic Videos, by Florian Philipp Stilz et al.
FLex: Joint Pose and Dynamic Radiance Fields Optimization for Stereo Endoscopic Videos
by Florian Philipp Stilz, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Felix Tristram, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Alexander Ladikos
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a new approach for reconstructing endoscopic scenes, which is crucial for various medical applications like post-surgery analysis and educational training. The proposed method, called FLex, addresses the challenges of dealing with moving endoscopes and deforming tissue by using implicit scene separation and progressive optimization. This allows for the reconstruction of long surgical videos (up to 5,000 frames) without requiring external tracking information. The results show significant improvements in novel view synthesis quality while maintaining competitive pose accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to make movies from inside a patient’s body using special cameras called endoscopes. It’s like making a movie of what happens during surgery, but it’s not easy because the camera moves and the tissue inside the body changes shape. The scientists have come up with a new idea that uses computer programs to separate the scene into many overlapping parts, which helps them create a better picture of what happened. This is important for doctors to understand what they did during the surgery and how it will help the patient get better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Optimization * Tracking
