Journal Papers

• EyeSLAM: Real-Time Localization and Mapping of Retinal Vessels during Intraocular Microsurgery

D. Braun, S. Yang, J. N. Martel, C. N. Riviere, and B. C. Becker. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, Feb 2018; 14(1): 1848.

• Face Recognition for Web-Scale Datasets

E.G. Ortiz and B.C. Becker. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Jan. 2014; 118(1): 153-170.

• Vision-Based Control of a Handheld Surgical Micromanipulator with Virtual Fixtures

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, L.A. Lobes Jr., G.D. Hager, and C.N. Riviere. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, June 2013; 29(3): 674-683.

• Robotic Tremor Suppression: A Tool for Stapes Surgery

A.J. Knisely, B.E. Hirsh, B.C. Becker, and C.N. Riviere. Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Aug. 2012; 147(2 suppl): 220.

• Micron: An actively stabilized handheld tool for microsurgery

R.A. MacLachlan, B.C. Becker, J.C. Tabares, G.W. Podnar, L.A. Lobes, Jr., and CN. Riviere. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Feb. 2012; 28(1): 195-212.

• Semiautomated Intraocular Laser Surgery using Handheld Instruments

B.C. Becker, S. Voros, L.A. Lobes Jr., G.D. Hager, and C.N Riviere. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, March 2010; 42(3): 264-273. Won Best Surgical Applications ePoster when presented at the Thirtieth Annual Conference of American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, April 2010.

Conference Papers

• SDVTracker: Real-Time Multi-Sensor Association and Tracking for Self-Driving Vehicles

S. Gautam, G.P. Meyer, C. Vallespi-Gonzalez, B.C. Becker. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), June 2020, in submission.

• Evaluating Open-Universe Face Identification on the Web

B.C. Becker and E.G. Ortiz. In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (CVPRW 2013), June 2013, pp 904-911.

• Real-Time Retinal Vessel Mapping and Localization for Intraocular Surgery

B.C. Becker and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), May 2013, pp 5360-5365.

• Towards Vision-Based Control of a Handheld Micromanipulator for Retinal Cannulation in an Eyeball Phantom

B.C. Becker, S. Yang, R.A. MacLachlan, L.A. Lobes Jr., C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012), June 2012, 44-49.

• Position-Based Virtual Fixtures for Membrane Peeling with a Handheld Micromanipulator

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, L.A. Lobes Jr., C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), May 2012, pp 1075-1080.

• State Estimation and Feedforward Tremor Suppression for a Handheld Micromanipulator with a Kalman Filter

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), Sept. 2011, pp 5160-5165.

• Handheld Micromanipulation with Vision-Based Virtual Fixtures

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, G.D. Hager, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), May 2011, pp 4127-4132.

• Retinal Vessel Cannulation with an Image-Guided Handheld Robot

B.C. Becker, S. Voros, L.A. Lobes Jr., G.D. Hager, and C.N Riviere. In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2010), Sept. 2010, pp 5420-5423.

• Active Guidance for Laser Retinal Surgery with a Handheld Instrument

B.C. Becker, C.R. Valdivieso, J. Biswas, L.A. Lobes Jr, and C.N Riviere. In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2009), Sept. 2009, pp 5587-5590.

• Active Guidance of a Handheld Micromanipulator using Visual Servoing

B.C. Becker, S. Voros, R.A. MacLachlan, G.D. Hager, and C.N Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), May 2009, pp 339-344.

• Evaluation of Face Recognition Techniques for Application to Facebook

B. C. Becker and E.G. Ortiz. In IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG08), Sept. 2008, pp 1-6.

• Autoregressive Modeling of Physiological Tremor under Microsurgical Conditions

B.C. Becker, H. Tummala, and C.N Riviere. In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2008), Sept. 2008, pp 1948-1951.

• A Mission Plan Representation for Autonomous Reasoning of Consequences

B.C. Becker, A.J. Gonzalez, and K. Garfield. In Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2007), July 2007.

• Ontology-Based Search Engine for a Real-World Decision Support System

B.C. Becker, C.M. Vargas, and A.J. Gonzalez. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2006), April 2006, pp 2022-2028.

Dissertation and Honors Thesis

• Vision-Based Control of a Handheld Micromanipulator for Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery (dissertation) (proposal)

B.C. Becker, C.N Riviere (committee chair), G. Stetten, G. Kantor, and G.D. Hager. Doctoral Dissertation at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Sept. 2012.

• Automatically Determining Consequences of Unexpected Events

B.C. Becker, A.J. Gonzalez (committee chair), M. Georgiopoulos, and A. Wu. Undergraduate Honors Thesis at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, May 2007.

Conference Paper Contributions

• Handheld Micromanipulator for Robot-Assisted Stapes Footplate Surgery

G.M. Grande, A.J. Knisely, B.C. Becker, S. Yang, B.E. Hirsch, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2012), Sept. 2012, pp 1422-1425.

• Comparative Evaluation of Monocular Augmented-Reality Display for Surgical Microscopes

S.R. Palma, B.C. Becker, L.A. Lobes, and C.N. Riviere.  In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2012), Sept. 2012, pp 1409-1412.

• Inexpensive Monocular Pico-Projector-Based Augmented Reality Display for Surgical Microscope

C. Shi, B.C. Becker, and C.N. Riviere.  In IEEE Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2012), June 2012.

• Simultaneous Calibration of Stereo Vision and 3D Optical Tracker for Robotic Microsurgery

S.R. Palma, B.C. Becker, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2012), March 2012, pp 351-352.

• Toward Robot-Assisted Stapes Fenestration with a Handheld Micromanipulator

G.M. Grande, A.J Knisely, B.C. Becker, S. Yang, B.E. Hirsch, and C.N. Riviere.  In IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2012), March 2012, pp 141-142.

• Evaluation In Vitro of a Treatment Planning Algorithm for an Epicardial Crawling Robot

B. Goyette, B.C. Becker, M.A. Zenati, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2010), Sept. 2010, pp 2275-2278.

• Contextual Graphs for a Real-World Decision Support System

J.V. Nguyen, B.C. Becker, and A.J. Gonzalez. In Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2006), 2006, pp 643-648.

• Discover Vision: A Framework for Building, Evaluation, and Testing Performance Based Machine Vision Applications

D.J. Barber, B.C. Becker, and F. Gonzalez. In Proceedings of Unmanned Systems North America, 2006.

• Software Design for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle for the 13th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

T. Roberts, D. Barber, B.C. Becker, and F. Gonzalez. In Proceedings of SPIE 2004: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Oct. 2005.

Book Chapters / Workshops

• Chapter 15: Visual Guidance of an Active Handheld Microsurgical Tool

B.C. Becker, S. Voros, R.A. MacLachlan, G.D. Hager, and C.N. Riviere. Section in Surgical Robotics: System Applications and Visions, Springer US, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4419-1125-4, pp 355-368.

• Control of an Active Handheld Instrument for Microsurgery and Micromanipulation

R.A. MacLachlan, B.C. Becker, and C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Control Issues in the Micro/Nano World Workshop (ICRA 2009), May 2009, pp 29-31.