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In cooperation with the Chair of Visualization (Prof. Bernhard Preim, Dr. Patrick Saalfeld) and the research campus STIMULATE (Prof. Rose), a number of student projects in the field of AR/VR have recently been successfully completed. The projects were funded by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg from funds of the Hochschulpakt 2020. … Read more
Christian Hansen and Vuthea Chheang visited the Department of Computer Science of Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, South Korea to discuss a future cooperation with Prof. Kwan-Hee Yoo in the field of Virtual Reality Interaction. The discussions were very successful and a number of cooperation possibilities were identified. In particular, a close partnership with the research campus STIMULATE in the field … Read more
On October 12, 2018, the kick-off meeting for the new BMBF-funded project AVATAR took place at the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Under the direction of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen, AVATAR will investigate new interaction and visualization techniques for virtual training of surgeons. The University Hospital Mainz, the Harvard Medical School in … Read more
There are two new vacancies from the VIS/CAS Group in the field of Virtual Reality in surgical training: – PhD Student in the field of VR-Interaction – Post-Doc Researcher in the field of VR-Interaction Please contact Christian Hansen for more details.
Thanks to funding from the STIMULATE research campus, our colleagues Anneke Meyer, Gino Gulamhussene and Marko Rak were able to attend the 28th NA-MIC Project Week in Gran Canaria, Spain. Endorsed by the MICCAI Society, the NA-MIC Project Week seeks to connect people with different backgrounds and from different countries to magnify the impact of … Read more
Anneke Meyer attended the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in Washington, D.C. from April 3rd to April 7th. The ISBI brought together more than 700 researchers from biological and medical imaging. Anneke Meyer presented her work about high resolution segmentation of the prostate in MR images. The novelty of her work comprises … Read more
Marko Rak, researcher at the research campus STIMULATE and the Faculty of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke University, successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Image Analysis in Public Health Studies – Fast Methods for Spine and Aorta Analysis in MRI”. Congratulations Marko! The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Tönnies at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.
We have received new funding to expand our VR/AR laboratory with five high-end workstations and several new 3D input devices. The equipment is funded by an internal grant (€18.000) from the Faculty of Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg. We would like to take advantage of the equipment, offering students new opportunities to gain … Read more
Mengfei Li successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Toward a Robust Electromagnetic Tracking System for Use in Medical Applications”. Congratulations! It is the first successfully completed dissertation in the CAS group. The scientific supervision of the dissertation was carried out by Prof. Dr. Georg Rose and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen at the research campus STIMULATE.
Marko Rak and Christian Hansen, scientists at the STIMULATE research campus and the Faculty of Computer Science, were awarded a NVIDIA GPU Grant. NVIDIA supports their research in the field of human-computer interaction and medical image computing with the donation of one NVIDIA Titan Xp graphics card.
