The Academic-Industry Partnerships at NSF Newsletter is an all-in-one source for information on the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC), Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC), Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research-Technology Translation and Research Alliance (PFI:AIR-TT and PFI:AIR-RA), Innovation Corps (I-Corps), and Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) programs, among others. 

Abstract: Human motion-capture and computational analysis tools have played a significant role in a variety of product- design and ergonomics settings for over a quarter-century. In moving beyond traditional kinematic (and its dual- static) settings, advances in biomechanics and multibody dynamics have led up to computational analysis tools that can provide significant insights into the functional performance.

Abstract: In the process of developing a cyber-physical system capable of displaying the in vivo surgical area directly onto patients' skin, an important research challenge emerged.  To generate virtual views from an arbitrary angle, 3D information of internal organ surfaces is crucial.  The 3D reconstruction of internal organ surfaces for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with stereo cameras is usually very difficult due to the challenges in correspondence matching, since there is very limited texture but significant specular reflection on or