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most citedSurGrID: Controllable Surgical Simulation via Scene Graph to Image Diffusion

3 citations · 5 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2026

Sterilizable Scene Graph Generation for Operating Rooms

Nick Lemke, Ssharvien Kumar Sivakumar, Antoine P. Sanner +4

Scene graph generation from surgical video enables a holistic and structured understanding of surgical scenes by modeling objects and their semantic relationships. Despite recent a…

cs.CV2026

P-JEPA: Procedural Video Representation Learning via Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture

Felix Tristram, Stefano Gasperini, Benjamin Killeen +4

The increasing maturity of embodied AI platforms has driven a growing interest in procedural video representation learning to support intelligent assistance systems for complex, mu…

cs.CV2026

OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions

Felix Tristram, Ege Özsoy, Christian Benz +3

Fine-grained understanding of operating room (OR) activity could enable workflow-aware assistance, yet remains difficult due to clutter, occlusions, and limited sensing. The prevai…

cs.CV2026

SWoMo: Neuro-Symbolic World Model for Cataract Surgery Simulation

Ssharvien Kumar Sivakumar, Akwele Johnson, Anirudh Dhingra +3

Realistic surgical simulation plays a crucial role in training novice surgeons and in the development of autonomous agents. World models can scale such simulation environments to r…

cs.CV2026

Towards Comprehensive Real-Time Scene Understanding in Ophthalmic Surgery through Multimodal Image Fusion

Nikolo Rohrmoser, Ghazal Ghazaei, Michael Sommersperger +1

Purpose: The integration of multimodal imaging into operating rooms paves the way for comprehensive surgical scene understanding. In ophthalmic surgery, by now, two complementary i…

cs.CV2025

ProtoFlow: Interpretable and Robust Surgical Workflow Modeling with Learned Dynamic Scene Graph Prototypes

Felix Holm, Ghazal Ghazaei, Nassir Navab

Purpose: Detailed surgical recognition is critical for advancing AI-assisted surgery, yet progress is hampered by high annotation costs, data scarcity, and a lack of interpretable…

cs.CV2025

CAT-SG: A Large Dynamic Scene Graph Dataset for Fine-Grained Understanding of Cataract Surgery

Felix Holm, Gözde Ünver, Ghazal Ghazaei +1

Understanding the intricate workflows of cataract surgery requires modeling complex interactions between surgical tools, anatomical structures, and procedural techniques. Existing…

cs.CV2025

SG2VID: Scene Graphs Enable Fine-Grained Control for Video Synthesis

Ssharvien Kumar Sivakumar, Yannik Frisch, Ghazal Ghazaei +1

Surgical simulation plays a pivotal role in training novice surgeons, accelerating their learning curve and reducing intra-operative errors. However, conventional simulation tools…

cs.CV2025

Watch and Learn: Leveraging Expert Knowledge and Language for Surgical Video Understanding

David Gastager, Ghazal Ghazaei, Constantin Patsch

Automated surgical workflow analysis is crucial for education, research, and clinical decision-making, but the lack of annotated datasets hinders the development of accurate and co…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

SurGrID: Controllable Surgical Simulation via Scene Graph to Image Diffusion

Yannik Frisch, Ssharvien Kumar Sivakumar, Çağhan Köksal +5

Surgical simulation offers a promising addition to conventional surgical training. However, available simulation tools lack photorealism and rely on hardcoded behaviour. Denoising…

cs.CV2024

SURGIVID: Annotation-Efficient Surgical Video Object Discovery

Çağhan Köksal, Ghazal Ghazaei, Nassir Navab

Surgical scenes convey crucial information about the quality of surgery. Pixel-wise localization of tools and anatomical structures is the first task towards deeper surgical analys…

cs.CV2024

SANGRIA: Surgical Video Scene Graph Optimization for Surgical Workflow Prediction

Çağhan Köksal, Ghazal Ghazaei, Felix Holm +2

Graph-based holistic scene representations facilitate surgical workflow understanding and have recently demonstrated significant success. However, this task is often hindered by th…

cs.CV2023

Dynamic Scene Graph Representation for Surgical Video

Felix Holm, Ghazal Ghazaei, Tobias Czempiel +3

Surgical videos captured from microscopic or endoscopic imaging devices are rich but complex sources of information, depicting different tools and anatomical structures utilized du…

cs.CV2019★ 2 cited

Grasp Type Estimation for Myoelectric Prostheses using Point Cloud Feature Learning

Ghazal Ghazaei, Federico Tombari, Nassir Navab +1

Prosthetic hands can help people with limb difference to return to their life routines. Commercial prostheses, however have several limitations in providing an acceptable dexterity…

cs.CV2018

Dealing with Ambiguity in Robotic Grasping via Multiple Predictions

Ghazal Ghazaei, Iro Laina, Christian Rupprecht +3

Humans excel in grasping and manipulating objects because of their life-long experience and knowledge about the 3D shape and weight distribution of objects. However, the lack of su…