Publications

Point-Based Minkowski Sum Boundary, Jyh-Ming Lien, in Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics), Maui, Hawaii, Nov. 2007, to appear. (Cover image) new!
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Approximate Star-Shaped Decomposition of Point Set Data, Jyh-Ming Lien, in Proceedings of the IEEE/Eurographics Symposium on Point Based Graphics (PBG), Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 2007, to appear.
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Approximate Convex Decomposition of Polyhedra, Jyh-Ming Lien and Nancy M. Amato, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM), Beijing, China, June 2007, pp. 121~131. (Back cover image) Invited for journal re-publication in a special issue of COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN (CAGD).
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Approximate Convex Decomposition and Its Applications, Jyh-Ming Lien, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Dec 2006. Ph.D. Dissertation (pdf)

Simultaneous Shape Decomposition and Skeletonization, Jyh-Ming Lien, John Keyser, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symp. (SPM), pp. 219-228, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Jun 2006. Also, Technical Report, TR05-015, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Dec 2005.
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Approximate Convex Decomposition of Polyhedra, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Technical Report, TR06-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2006.
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Approximate Convex Decomposition of Polygons, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, To appear:2005. Also, In Proc. ACM Symp. Comput. Geom., pp. 17-26, Brooklyn, New York, Jun 2004. Also, Technical Report, TR03-008, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Dec 2003. Also, Technical Report, TR03-008, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, Jun 2003.
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Approximate Convex Decomposition, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. ACM Symp. Comput. Geom., pp. 457-458, Brooklyn, New York. Video Abstract, Jun 2004. Also, Technical Report, TR03-001, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2003.
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Skeleton-Based Data Compression for Multi-Camera Tele-immersion System, Jyh-Ming Lien, Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy. in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California, Nov. 2007, to appear. new!
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Skeleton-Based Compression of 3-D Tele-Immersion Data, Jyh-Ming Lien and Ruzena Bajcsy, in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Vienna, Austria, Sep. 2007, to appear.
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A Framework for Planning Motion in Environments with Moving Obstacles, Samuel Rodriguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, and Nancy Amato, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, Oct 2007, to appear.

Incremental Map Generation (IMG), Dawen Xie, Marco A. Morales A., Roger Pearce, Shawna Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien and Nancy M. Amato, in Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), New York City, July, 2006.
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An Obstacle-Based Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree, Samuel Rodriguez, Xinyu Tang, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 895-900, Orlando, FL, May 2006. Also, Technical Report, TR05-009, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Incremental Map Generation (IMG), Dawen Xie, Marco A. Morales A., Roger Pearce, Shawna Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Technical Report, TR06-005, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Mar 2006.
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Incremental Map Generation (IMG), Dawen Xie, Shawna L. Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Technical Report, TR05-007, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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VIZMO++: a Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning, Aim?e Vargas E., Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 727-732, Orlando, Florida, To appear, May 2006. Also, Technical Report, TR05-014, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Planning Motion in Completely Deformable Environments, Samuel Rodriguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, N. M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 2466-2471, Orlando, FL, May 2006. Also, Technical Report, TR05-010, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Probabilistic Roadmap Motion Planning for Deformable Objects, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 2126-2133, Washingon, D.C., May 2002. Also, Technical Report, TR01-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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A General Framework for Sampling on the Medial Axis of the Free Space, Jyh-Ming Lien, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 4439-4444, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2003.
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Automatically Generating Virtual Guided Tours, Tsai-Yen Li, Jyh-Ming Lien, Shih-Yen Chiu, Tzong-Hann Yu, In Proceedings of the Computer Animation '99 Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1999.
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Roadmap-Based Group Behaviors, S. Rodriguez, R. Salazar, N. M. Amato, O. B. Bayazit, and J.-M. Lien, Proceedings of the RSS Workshop on Algorithmic Equivalences Between Biological and Robotic Swarms, Atlanta, June 2007, to appear.

Composable Group Behaviors, Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodriguez, Xinyu Tang, John Maffei, Arnaud Masciotra, Technical Report, TR05-006, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds, Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodriguez, Jean-Philippe Malric, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), Apr 2005. Also, Technical Report, TR04-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2004.
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Swarming Behavior Using Probabilistic Roadmap Techniques, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3342/2005:112-125, Jan 2005.
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Shepherding Behaviors, Jyh-Ming Lien, O. Burchan Bayazit, Ross T. Sowell, Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), pp. 4159-4164, New Orleans, Apr 2004. Also, Technical Report, TR03-006, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 2003.
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Better Shepherding Behaviors Using Improved Shepherd Locomotion, Ross T. Sowell, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Technical Report, TR03-009, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Aug 2003.
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Better Group Behaviors in Complex Environments with Global Roadmaps, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. Int. Conf. on the Sim. and Syn. of Living Sys. (Alife), pp. 362-370, Sydney, Australia, Dec 2002.
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Better Group Behaviors using Rule-Based Roadmaps, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. Int. Wkshp. on Alg. Found. of Rob. (WAFR), pp. 95-111, Nice, France, Dec 2002.
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Roadmap-Based Flocking for Complex Environments, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, In Proc. Pacific Conf. on Computer Graphics and App. (PG), pp. 104-113, Beijing, China, Oct 2002. Also, Technical Report, TR02-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Apr 2002.
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Neuron PRM: A Framework for Constructing Cortical Networks, Jyh-Ming Lien, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato, Neurocomputing, 52-54(28):191-197, Jun 2003. Also, Technical Report, TR01-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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