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

Kimin and Seokyeol attended SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 held in Hong Kong.

Global Lecture Series was held by Prof. Neil Roberts (University of Edinburgh). He gave a series of lectures titled "Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain and Muscle Structure and Function: Applications in Health and Disease".

The 23rd CGV Seminar Series was held by Prof. Kyoung Shin Park (Dankook University). She gave a presentation titled "3D Technology and 3D Content Design".

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Technology, Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd visited our lab to watch a demonstration about the haptic devices.

Professors from Harbin Institute of Technology visited our lab. We gave a demonstration about our research interests.

We had a picnic at Daejeon O-World.

Kimin and Prof. Park won a distinguished paper award of KCC 2011 for a paper titled "A Collision Model for Haptic Simulation of Tooth Preparation (치아 형성의 햅틱 시뮬레이션을 위한 충돌 모델)" (authors: Kimin Kim, Jaihyun Kim, and Jinah Park). Also, Kimin, Jaehyun, and Prof. Park won a distinguished demonstration award of KCC 2011. Congratulations!

Prof. Park and Jaeil attended the 14th Korea-Germany Joint Workshop on Advanced Medical Image Processing held in German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Jaeil presented a paper titled "Coupled Surface Reconstruction for Subcortical Shape Analysis" (authors: Jaeil Kim, Joon-Kyung Seong, and Jinah Park).

Jinah Kim attended CoastGIS 2011 held in Oostende, Belgium. She presented a paper titled "Implementation of Korea Operational Oceanographic Information System using Web-GIS" (authors: Jinah Kim, Jaeil Kwon, K.S. Park, and Jinah Park) and a poster titled "Web-GIS based Saemangeum Coastal Information System" (authors: Jinah Kim, Chang S. Kim, and Jinah Park).

Seokyeol and Taeho attended KCGS 2011 (한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회 2011 학술대회) held in Sol Beach Resort, Gangwon-do, Korea. Seokyeol presented a paper titled "Frame Rate Up-conversion from Visual to Haptic Rendering for Multimodal Virtual Reality Applications (멀티모달 가상현실 어플리케이션을 위한 시각 렌더링 프레임 기반 촉각 피드백 보간 기법)" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

Jaeil and Taeho attended KSIIM Joint Workshop (의학영상정보 분야 공동학술대회) 2011 held in KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. Jaeil gave a presentation titled "모델 기반 다중 개체 형태 복원 기법" (author: Jaeil Kim).

We attended KCC 2011 held in Gyeongju, Korea. Kimin presented a paper titled "A Collision Model for Haptic Simulation of Tooth Preparation (치아 형성의 햅틱 시뮬레이션을 위한 충돌 모델)" (authors: Kimin Kim, Jaihyun Kim, and Jinah Park) with a demonstration. Also, Seokyeol presented a poster titled "Quantitative Incision Skill Assessment for Computer-based Surgery Simulator (컴퓨터 기반 수술 훈련 시뮬레이터를 위한 정량적 절개 숙련도 평가 기법)" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park), and Jaehyun presented a poster titled "Haptic Simulation Algorithm for Tooth Scaling Training (치아 스케일링 훈련을 위한 햅틱 시뮬레이션 알고리즘)" (authors: Jaehyun Cho, Jaihyun Kim, and Jinah Park).

Prof. Park was invited to LSIIT at the University of Strasbourg in France. She gave a seminar talk on 'Computer graphics and computer haptics for visualization and simulation' (http://lsiit-cnrs.unistra.fr/semin.php) and visited the IGG group (http://lsiit.u-strasbg.fr/igg-en/index.php/Main_Page).

Prof. Park attended the SICSA MMI Workshop on 'Affective Interaction and Virtual Characters' held in Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. (https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/outreach/sicsa-mmi-workshop-june-2011)

Jaeil attended the 43rd KOSOMBE Conference (2011년 대한의용생체공학회 춘계학술대회). He presented a paper titled "Template Surface Model-based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Upper Cervical Spine" (authors: Jaeil Kim, Neil Roberts, and Jinah Park).

We attended ITRC Forum 2011 held in COEX, Seoul, Korea. We gave a demonstration titled "Haptic Jenga".

Seokyeol attended SMART on ICT 2011 held in Seoul, Korea.

Jinah Kim was invited to give a presentation on 'Implementation of Web-GS based Ocean Environmental Information System' at KISTI in Daejeon.

We had a picnic at Gyeryong Mountain.

Prof. Park attended Eurographics 2011 held in Llandudno, Wales, UK.

Both Prof. Jinah Park and Prof. Jong Park (NLP*CL Lab) were invited to give a research seminar and to meet with various researchers at the University of Dundee (host: Prof. Nick Hine) in Scotland. Prof. Jinah Park gave a talk titled 'Developing Haptic Interface for Dental Simulation'.

Taeho joined CGV Lab. Welcome!

Prof. Park gave a special guest lecture on Visualization in the 'Computer Animation & Visualisation' course at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Jaeil visited Clinical Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh, UK, as a visiting student.

Seok received MSE and Soonchan received BSE. Congratulations!

We had a "2011 CGV Lab Workshop" at I'Park Condominium, Gangwon-do, Korea.

We attended HCI Korea 2011 held in Alpensia Resort, Korea. Soonchan presented a paper titled "A Method for Providing Visual Contact Cue to Improve Efficiency of 3D Cursor-based Selection in Virtual Environment (가상환경에서 차원 커서 기반 3D 객체 선택의 효율성 향상을 위한 Visual Contact Cue 제공 방법)", authored by Soonchan Park, Jaeil Kim, and Jinah Park. Also, Mihee presented a paper titled "3D GUI for Collaboration of Multi-users and Multi-view (다 시점, 다중 사용자의 협업을 위한 3D GUI)", authored by Mihee Jo, Jaeil Kim, Yeseul Park, and Jinah Park.

Jaehyun and Seokyeol attended the 7th Conference on Biomedical Informatics (제7회 정보의학 세미나 및 시스템바이오정보의학 연구센터 국제심포지움) which was co-located with APBC 2011.

We visited Inje University Sanggye-Paik Hospital located in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Sanglim Lee gave us a seminar about orthopedic surgery.