Journal Papers

• Position-Based Virtual Fixtures for Visual Control of a Handheld Micromanipulator

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, L.A. Lobes Jr., G.D. Hager, and C.N. Riviere. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, in submission.

• Face Recognition for Web-Scale Datasets
  

E.G. Ortiz and B.C. Becker. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, in submission.

• 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.

Dissertation and Honors Thesis

• Vision-Based Control of a Handheld Micromanipulator for Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery (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, May 2011, forthcoming.

• 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 Papers

• 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), in submission.

• Vision-Based Retinal Membrane Peeling with a Handheld Robot
  

B.C. Becker, R.A. MacLachlan, L.A. Lobes Jr., C.N. Riviere. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), in publication.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.