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Our new colleague Oleksii Bashkanov has received the FIN Research Award for students. The award is given by the Faculty of Computer Science (FIN) of the Otto-von-Gueircke University Magdeburg for graduate students who are already particularly active in research during their studies. Oleksii was able to publish two research papers as first author in 2019, which is … Read more
André Mewes successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Projector-based Augmented Reality and Touchless Interaction to Support MRI-Guided Interventions” on November 21, 2019. The reviewers of the thesis were Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel (University of Dresden), Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber (University of Bern) and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg). André conducted his research in … Read more
Gerd Schmidt received the Best Presentation Award at the IEEE EMBS Student Conference in Magdeburg for his scientific contribution “Intraoperative Distance Estimation usinng AR-Visualization and Auditory Display”. The research for this project was carried out together with Florian Heinrich, Dr. David Black and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen at the research campus STIMULATE as part of the DFG project “Improving … Read more
Florian Heinrich has been distinguished with a Best Poster Award together with Gerd Schmidt, Dr. med. Florian Jungmann and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen for the scientific contribution “Augmented Reality Visualisation Concepts to Support Intraoperative Distance Estimation” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) in Sydney, Australia. VRST is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results … Read more
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen received a teaching award for the seminar Human-Computer Interfaces in Medicine. The seminar was ranked as the third best seminar at the faculty of computer science in winter semester 2018/19. The award was handed out by the student representatives of the computer science faculty (FaRaFIN).
Suhita Ghosh, who is currently writing her Master’s thesis in the CAS group, was awarded the DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achievements. The DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) is a joint institution of German universities and student organisations for the promotion of international relations. The prize, which is endowed with 1000 euros, was handed over during … Read more
Mareike Gabele has been distinguished with an Encouragement Award at the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI). Mareike is a PhD student at the research campus STIMULATE and conducts a cooperative PhD project funded by the FEM Power Program of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. Mareike was selected for the short paper “Light as a long-term … Read more
We are proud that the master thesis of our former master student Philipp Ernst was recommended by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg for the “Award des Fakultätstages Informatik – Herausragende Masterarbeit”. We will keep our fingers crossed. During his master thesis at the Computer-Assisted Surgery Group, Philip developed a novel CNN-based framework that … Read more
Our project proposal “Improving Spatial Perception for Medical Augmented Reality with Interactable Depth Layers” was accepted for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Within the next three years, we will investigate methods to improve the spatial perception for medical AR. Our objective is to determine if depth layer decompositions help to better understand spatial … Read more
We are excited that our group will be represented at MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen together with the research campus STIMULATE. The contribution of Philipp Ernst, a former Master student of us and now part of the MEMoRIAL Graduate School, was accepted as a full paper, which is an outstanding achievement, especially as it is his first scientific paper. The paper … Read more
