Time-of-flight-assisted Kinect camera-based people detection for intuitive human robot cooperation in the surgical operating room.

Journal: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PMID: 26567093

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Scene supervision is a major tool to make medical robots safer and more intuitive. The paper shows an approach to efficiently use 3D cameras within the surgical operating room to enable for safe human robot interaction and action perception. Additionally the presented approach aims to make 3D camera-based scene supervision more reliable and accurate.

Authors

  • Tim Beyl
    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. tim.beyl@googlemail.com.
  • Philip Nicolai
    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Mirko D Comparetti
    NeuroEngineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
  • Jörg Raczkowsky
    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Elena De Momi
  • Heinz Wörn
    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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