We had a year-end party with the members of the NLP*CL Lab.

Jaeil and Seokyeol attended ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 held in Yokohama, Japan. They presented a poster titled 'Efficient Multi-Pass Welding Training with Haptic Guide' (authors: Yongwan Kim, Ungyeon Yang, Dongsik Jo, Gun Lee, Jinseong Choi, and Jinah Park).

Deepak Gupta joined CGV Lab as an intern for this winter. Welcome!

Seok attended ICMIT 2009 held in Gwangju, Korea. He presented a paper titled 'Behavior Modeling of Haptic Brush for Virtual Painting' (authors: Seok Kim and Jinah Park).

Yongwan and Kimin attended VRST 2009, held in Kyoto, Japan. Kimin presented a paper titled 'Virtual Bone Drilling for Dental Implant Surgery Training' (authors: Kimin Kim and Jinah Park), and Yongwan presented a poster titled 'Physically Based Grasping and Manipulation Method Using Pre-Contact Grasping Quality Measure' (authors: Yongwan Kim, Jinseong Choi, and Jinah Park). Also, Yongwan contributed to a poster titled 'Visualization of Virtual Weld Beads' (authors: Dongsik Jo, Yongwan Kim, Ungyeon Yang, Gun A. Lee, and Jin Sung Choi).

The 21st CGV Seminar Series was held by Dr. Stéphane Cotin (INRIA). He gave a presentation titled 'SOFA: an Open Source framework for Interactive (Medical) Simulations'.

Ms. Urte Rietdorf (German Cancer Research Center) visited our lab. She gave a talk about medical imaging.

Prof. Raj Reddy (CMU), Prof. Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University), and Prof. Arvind (MIT) visited our lab as 2009 External Advisory Committee (EAC).

We had a lab workshop at Jeju.

Prof. Park attended Pacific Graphics 2009, held in Jeju, Korea.

Daesuk got married. Congratulations!

Prof. Park attended The 12th Korea-Germany Joint Workshop on Advanced Medical Image Processing, held in Munich, Germany. She presented a paper titled 'HaptiBody Navigator - Interactive Human Body Learning Platform with Haptic Interaction' (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

Prof. Park attended World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, held in Munich, Germany. She presented a paper titled 'Hybrid Elastic Model for Volumetric Deformation in Multi-modal Virtual Reality Simulation' (authors: Jaehwan Cho and Jinah Park).

Prof. Park and Yunkyu attended BIEN 2009: INWES Asian Network, held in Busan. Yunkyu presented a paper titled 'Dynamic visualization of relational data' (authors: Yunkyu Choi and Jinah Park).

Jaehwan, Yunkyu, and Kimin received MSE. Congratulations!

We had a membership training at Muju.

Jaeil, Yeseul, and Mihee attended the workshop on MIDAS Touch Project (MIDAS Touch 사업 공동연구기관 워크숍).

Prof. Park visited University of Edinburgh in Scotland. While visiting, she gave two invited talk: The first talk was on 'Applying deformable models for patient-specific organ modeling' (http://www.sbirc.ed.ac.uk/education.html), given at SFC Brain Imaging Research Centre, and the second talk was on 'Visualization, Simulation and Interaction,'' (http://www.ipab.inf.ed.ac.uk/events.html) given at the Institute of Perception, Action and Behavior.

The abstract titled 'Dynamic visualization of relational data' (authors: Yunkyu Choi and Jinah Park) has been selected as an oral presentation at BIEN 2009: INWES Asian Network (www.kwse-inwesasia.org), which will be held in Busan, Korea from August 27 to 29, 2009.

Two papers are presented at Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2009 held in Jeju, Korea. 'Implement of Web based Self-Directed Learning for multi-Contents Service in ICT (멀티 교육 콘텐츠 서비스를 기반으로 한 웹기반 자기주도적 학습 시스템 구현)', authored by Jiseon Kim and Jinah Park, and 'A Design and Implementation of Intelligence Robot Simulation System using Service Components (서비스 컴포넌트를 이용한 지능로봇 시뮬레이션 시스템 설계 및 구현)', authored by Seong Yong Hong, Jinah Park, and Ho Jin Choi.

We attended ITRC FORUM 2009 held in COEX, Seoul, Korea. We gave a demonstration titled 'Virtual Stethoscope for Human Body Learning (체감형 인체 구조 학습 시스템)'. Also, our research center got the 'S' grade from the judges.

Kimin attended The 2nd KHC Workshop (제2회 햅틱 연구회 워크샵). He presented a paper titled 'Real-time Alveolar Bone Drilling Simulation using a Haptic Device (햅틱 장치를 사용한 실시간 치조골 드릴링 시뮬레이션)' (authors: Kimin Kim and Jinah Park).

The paper titled 'Hybrid Elastic Model for Volumetric Deformation in Multi-modal Virtual Reality Simulation' (authors: Jaehwan Cho and Jinah Park) was accepted for oral presentation at World Congress 2009.

Seokyeol attended KSIIM Joint Workshop (의학영상정보 분야 공동학술대회) 2009 held in KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. He gave a demonstration titled 'Immersive Human Body Learning System using Visible Korean Human Dataset (Visible Korean Human Dataset을 활용한 인체 구조 학습 시스템)' (authors: Seokyeol Kim, Kimin Kim, Jaeil Kim, Jinah Park).

Jaeil got married. Congratulations!

Prof. Park gave an invited talk on 'Medical Simulation (의료시뮬레이션 소개)' at the workshop on Convergence of Virtual Reality and Medicine (가상현실과 의학의 융합), sponsored by Gachon University Gil Hospital and KOCCA (Korea Creative Content Agency), held at 63City in Seoul. [Related news article]

Prof. Park participated in the Seminar on Human-body Information, held at KISTI. She presented the example cases on how VKH was utilized at CGV lab, under the title of 'Development of Haptic-based Education Contents and Simulators'.

The 20th CGV Seminar Series was held by Prof. Sang-Youn Kim (Korea University of Technology and Education). He gave a presentation titled 'Haptic rendering: from basics to application'.

Kimin and Mihee attended the seminar held in GIST, Gwangju. Prof. J. Edward Colgate (Northwestern University) gave a lecture titled 'Surface Haptics via Friction Modulation'.

Kimin visited Dental Implant Institute located in Las Vegas, Nevada. He demonstrated a haptic-based implant simulation system.

We visited the Gwacheon National Science Museum as a field trip. We looked around basic sciences and advanced technology pavilions. Also, we watched the robot show held in the main hall.

Yunkyu attended The 8th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course held in Kyoto, Japan.

The 19th CGV Seminar Series was held by Ms. Hyun Gee Noh (GL Associates). She gave a presentation titled 'E-Rome Pop Up Book'.

The 18th CGV Seminar Series was held by Prof. Hyungseok Kim (Konkuk University). He gave a lecture on 'Tangible Multimodal Interaction for Ubiquitous Media Interface: Touching Believable Media'.

We attended HCI Korea 2009 held in Pheonix Park, Korea. Prof. Park chaired virtual/augmented reality session 2. Yeseul presented a paper titled 'Visualizing Fuzzy Set Based on Venn Diagram' (author: Yeseul Park and Jinah Park), and Jaehwan presented a paper titled 'Hybrid Elastic Model for Volumetric Deformation and Real-time Haptic Simulation' (authors: Jaehwan Cho, Seok Kim and Jinah Park). Also, Seokyeol presented a paper titled 'Virtual Science Lab - Sensible Human Body Learning System' (authors: Kimin Kim, Jaeil Kim, Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

Jaeil attended SPIE Medical Imaging 2009 held in Orlando, USA. He presented a poster titled 'Automated 3D Heart Segmentation by Search Rays for Building Individual Conductor Models' (authors: Jaeil Kim, Seokyeol Kim, Kiwoong Kim and Jinah Park).

Seokyeol attended IFMIA 2009 held in Taipei, Taiwan. He presented a paper titled 'Automated 3-D Cardiac Segmentation using Search Rays' (authors: Seokyeol Kim, Jaeil Kim and Jinah Park).

We visited the National Cancer Center. Prof. Park gave a talk about medical imaging and simulation. Also, we observed a laparoscopic operation and talked with the staff.