Best Poster Award

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

Teaching Award

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).

DAAD Prize for Suhita Ghosh

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

Encouragement Award for Mareike Gabele

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

Outstanding Master Thesis

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

New DFG Project

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

MICCAI paper accepted

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

Successful Completion of Student Projects

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

New cooperation with Chungbuk National University, South Korea

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

Start of new BMBF-Project AVATAR

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

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