Publications associées à Optical head-mounted display

'connEcted caesarean section': creating a virtual link between MOthers and their infanTs to ImprOve maternal childbirth experieNce - study protocol for a PILOT trial (e-motion-pilot)

Sandra Maria Marcadent, David Desseauve, Karine Lepigeon, Fiona Corbaz

IntroductionOne-third of mothers rate their childbirth as traumatic. The prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD) is 4.7%. Skin-to-skin contact is a protective factor against CB-PTSD. However, during a caesarean section (CS ...

BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP2023

Frequency domain LPV controller synthesis for a positioning system with uncertain scheduling parameters

Alireza Karimi, Philippe Louis Schuchert

Ever-increasing demands from the industry require better performance out of the same system to achieve a competitive advantage. In systems functioning at different operating points, a fundamental trade-off between robustness and performance can limit the a ...

Elsevier2023

Waveguide and Gas: the Advent of a New Tool for Photonics

Luc Thévenaz, Flavien Gyger

The realisation of hollow-core fibres and nano-waveguides offers a unique opportunity to optimise the interactions between light and a gaseous medium. Stimulated Brillouin scattering is exploited to achieve unprecedented levels of amplification and to real ...

IEEE2021

On the Importance of Providing a Tangible Haptic Response for Training Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Virtual Reality

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Mathias Guy Delahaye

The current approach to train Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is to employ a mannequin device replicating the physical properties of a real human head and torso. This aims to ensure a correct transfer of the cardiac massage location, amplitude and freq ...

The Eurographics Association2021

Nanomechanical bio-sensing for fast and reliable detection of viability and susceptibility of microorganisms

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Leonardo Venturelli, Raphaël Foschia

The metabolic activity of living organisms results in cellular motion on a nanometric scale that can be efficiently detected by micro- and nano- fabricated sensors. Quartz crystal microbalance and atomic force microscopy (AFM) inspired techniques have rece ...

2021

System and method for a retinal projector based on a scattering reflector

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser

A retinal projector system, comprising a coupling means, a spacial light modulator, and a tapered optical waveguide having an input side surface and an output side surface, whereby the input side surface is larger than the output side surface, the coupling ...

2020

Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Head‐mounted displays for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) allow users to see highly realistic virtual worlds. The wearable haptics that enable feeling and touching these virtual objects are typically bulky, tethered, and provide only low fi ...

2020

Towards BCI-Based Interfaces for Augmented Reality: Feasibility, Design and Evaluation

Nicolas Julien Roussel, Camille Marie Jeunet

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) enable users to interact with computers without any dedicated movement, bringing new hands-free interaction paradigms. In this paper we study the combination of BCI and Augmented Reality (AR). We first tested the feasibilit ...

2020

Subjective and Viewport-based Objective Quality Assessment of 360-degree Videos

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Visual distortions in processed 360-degree visual content and consumed through head-mounted displays (HMDs) are perceived very differently when compared to traditional 2D content. To better understand how compression-related artifacts affect the overall pe ...

2020

Visual Distortions in 360-degree videos (Dataset)

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Here we catalog, visually demonstrate, and discuss the main causes of commonly encountered visual distortions into current 360-degree video processing pipelines. The main goal of the samples in this dataset is to demonstrate the visual distortions discusse ...

2019

On the first JND and break in presence of 360-degree content

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Unlike traditional planar 2D visual content, immersive 360-degree images and videos undergo particular processing steps and are intended to be consumed via head-mounted displays (HMDs). To get a deeper understanding on the perception of 360-degree visual d ...

ACM Press2019

Subjective Evaluation of 360-degree Sensory Experiences

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo

Traditionally, most multimedia content has been developed to stimulate two of the human senses, i.e., sight and hearing. Due to recent technological advancements, however, innovative services have been developed that provide more realistic, immersive, and ...

IEEE2019

Visual Distortions in 360-degree Videos

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Francesca De Simone

Omnidirectional (or 360-degree) images and videos are emergent signals being used in many areas such as robotics and virtual/augmented reality. In particular, for virtual reality applications, they allow an immersive experience in which the user can intera ...

2020

AR in VR: Simulating augmented reality glass for image fusion

Sabine Süsstrunk, Fayez Lahoud

Developing an augmented reality (AR) system involves a multitude of interconnected algorithms such as image fusion, camera synchronization and calibration, and brightness control, each having diverse parameters. This abundance of features, while beneficial ...

2019

Perception, control and planning for (self-)reconfigurable modular robots

Mehmet Hasan Mutlu

Modular robots (MRs) consist of similar modules that can be configured into different shapes. MRs introduce a number of benefits over conventional robots specifically designed for a task. Self-reconfigurable modular robots (SRMRs) are a sub-category of MRs ...

EPFL2019

Visual Distortions in 360-degree Videos

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Francesca De Simone

Omnidirectional (or 360-degree) images and videos are emergent signals in many areas such as robotics and virtual/augmented reality. In particular, for virtual reality, they allow an immersive experience in which the user is provided with a 360-degree fiel ...

2018

Impact of Visualisation Strategy for Subjective Quality Assessment of Point Clouds

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds have recently emerged as a promising and practical solution to code 3D visual information for immersive applications. Among other challenges, objective and subjective quality assessments are still open problems for this type of visual data rep ...

2018

Real-Time Generative Hand Modeling and Tracking

Anastasia Tkach

In our everyday life we interact with the surrounding environment using our hands. A main focus of recent research has been to bring such interaction to virtual objects, such as the ones projected in virtual reality devices, or super-imposed as holograms i ...

EPFL2018

360-Degree Video Head Movement Dataset

Francesca De Simone, Xavier Corbillon

While Virtual Reality applications attract the attention of developers and business analysts, the behavior of users watching 360-degree videos with Head-Mounted Display (HMD) has still to be understood. This paper introduces a dataset of the head movements ...

2017

Asymetric Telecollaboration in Virtual Reality

Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

We present a first study where we combine two asymetric virtual reality systems for telecollaboration purposes: a CAVE system and a head-mounted display (HMD), using a server-client type architecture. Experiments on a puzzle game in limited time, alone and ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017