We had an end of year party.

Sekil attended the 41st KIISE Winter Conference (한국정보과학회 제41회 동계학술발표회) held in Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang, Korea. He presented a paper titled "Real-time Simulation of Seas and Swells (풍파와 너울에 대한 실시간 시뮬레이션)" (authors: Sekil Park, Jaeyong Oh, and Jinah Park). Also, he and Prof. Park won a distinguished paper award from KIISE. Congratulations!

Prof. Park, Deokjae, and Taeho attended HCI Korea 2015 held in Seoul, Korea. Deokjae presented a paper titled "Haptic Rendering for 2D Application Interface by On-the-fly Layer Interpretation of GUI Element Images (GUI 요소 기반 이미지의 즉석 다층 해석을 통한 2D 인터페이스의 햅틱 렌더링)" (authors: Deok-Jae Song and Jinah Park). Also, Taeho gave a presentation titled "3D interaction methods for medical applications: from the concept to the evaluation" at the doctoral consortium.

Seokyeol attended SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 held in Shenzhen, China. He presented a poster titled "A SPH-based dissolution behavior model for real-time fluid-solid interaction" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

The 36th CGV Seminar Series was held by Prof. Myung Geol Choi (Catholic University of Korea). He gave a talk titled "Communicating about Human Motion with Computer".

The 35th CGV Seminar Series was held by Prof. Soo-Mi Choi (Sejong University, Korea). She gave a talk titled "Virtual Make-up (스케치 기반의 사실적인 얼굴 주름 생성 및 응용)".

Prof. Park and Deokjae attended VRST 2014 held at University of Edinburgh, UK. Deokjae presented a paper titled "AnyHaptics: A Haptic Plug-in for Existing Interactive 3D Graphics Applications" (authors: Deok-Jae Song and Jinah Park).

Deokjae attended ICFW 2014 held in Busan, Korea. He presented a paper titled "Distributed P2P-based Global Illumination for Multi-Users of Real-Time Rendering" (authors: Deok-Jae Song and Jinah Park).

We attended the 15th Germany-Korea Joint Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Cognition-Guided Surgery. Jaeil gave a presentation titled "Current research on 3D organ shape modeling and its applications". Also, we hosted KAIST Satellite Workshop held in Daejeon.

Prof. Park, Hojin, and Youngju attended the 6th International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS 2014) held in IRCAD, Strasbourg. France. Hojin presented a paper titled "Brain Ventricular Morphology Analysis Using a Set of Ventricular-Specific Feature Descriptors" (authors: Jaeil Kim, Hojin Ryoo, Maria del C. Valdés Hernández, Natalie A. Royle, and Jinah Park).

Deokjae won an outstanding TA award for the spring semester 2014. Congratulations!

Prof. Park, Jaeil, Uitae, Hojin, and Eunbi participated in X-ray CT Recon Summer School (바이오영상신호처리 여름학교) held in KAIST. They gave a lecture about medical image visualization, segmentation and registration using ITK and VTK.

We attended the 7th Korea Haptics Community Workshop (제7회 한국 햅틱스 연구회 워크샵) held at Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea. Deokjae gave a presentation and a demonstration titled "Haptic Plug-in for Existing Interactive 3D Graphics Applications (기존 대화형 3D 그래픽 어플리케이션을 위한 햅틱 플러그인)", and Yongwan gave a presentation titled "Virtual Environment Design Methodologies for Natural Hand Interaction (자연스러운 핸드 인터랙션을 위한 가상 환경 디자인 방법론)".

Yongwan received Ph.D. Congratulations!

Prof. Park attended the 3rd ISSiS(International Society for Simulation Surgery) Symposium held in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. She gave a talk titled "Virtual Reality coming from Medical Images".

We attended KCGS 2014 (한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회 2014 학술대회) held in Daemyung Resort, Byeonsan, Korea. Prof. Park served as a co-chair of the conference, and most of our lab members did voluntary works. Also, Deokjae presented a paper titled "Haptic Plug-in for Existing Interactive 3D Graphics Applications (기존 대화형 3D 그래픽 어플리케이션을 위한 햅틱 플러그인)" (authors: Deok-Jae Song and Jinah Park), and Joong-youn presented a paper titled "Cache Enhancement Methods for Fast Pathline Computation Based on Ellipsoidal Distance Function (빠른 패스라인 생성을 위한 타원체 거리함수 기반 캐시 성능 향상 기법)" (authors: Joong-Youn Lee and Jinah Park).

We attended the 28th KSIIM Workshop (2014년도 대한의학영상정보학회 학술대회) held in Seoul National University Dental Hospital, Korea. Prof. Park gave an opening address of the KAIST Research Group of Future Emerging Technology on Medical Imaging Session. Also, a collaborated work titled "Classification of EMCI & LMCI in Alzheimer's Disease Using Structural MRI and DTI" with CNI Lab (Dept. of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST) was presented at the session.

Dr. Maria presented a paper titled "Automatic hippocampal multimodal assessment for studies of stroke and small vessel disease" (authors: Maria del C. Valdés Hernández, Jaeil Kim, Ian Whitteford, Xinyi Qiu, Joanna M. Wardlaw, and Jinah Park) at MIUA 2014 held in London, UK.

Seokyeol attended ICROS 2014 held in Daegu, Korea. He presented a poster titled "A Real-time Simulation Environment for Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle with Particle-based Fluid Model (수중 로봇 제어 알고리즘 검증을 위한 파티클 기반의 실시간 유체 시뮬레이션 환경 구축)" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

We celebrated homecoming with our alumni.

The 34th CGV Seminar Series was held by Dr. Michael Friebe (Technical University Munich, Germany). He gave a talk titled "Translational Engineering for Clinically Relevant Innovation".

Taeho, Hojin, and Youngju attended Korea Graphics World 2014 held in COEX, Seoul, Korea.

We attended to i-FAB 2014 held in Busan, Korea. Jaeil presented a poster titled "Template-based landmark and region mapping of bone" (authors: Jaeil Kim, Sang Gyo Seo, Dong Yeon Lee, and Jinah Park).

Youngju and Eunbi joined CGV Lab. Welcome!

We have organized the 1st Monthly Meeting of KAIST Research Group of Future Emerging Technology on Medical Imaging.

We had the 2014 New Year's CGV Lab Workshop at KAIST.

Jinah Kim received Ph.D., and Seonggyu received M.S. Congratulations!

In celebration of the 43rd anniversary of KAIST’s founding, Prof. Park received ‘Excellence in Teaching Prize’, recognized for her outstanding achievements in education contribute to the development of KAIST.

We attended HCI Korea 2014 held in High1 Resort, Korea. We presented three papers during the conference. Also, Seokyeol and Prof. Park won a distinguished paper award for a paper titled "Real-time Simulation of Haptic Interaction between Fluid Media and Soluble Objects based on Unified Particle Model (실시간 햅틱 상호작용을 위한 통합 입자 모델 기반의 유체 및 용해성 강체 시뮬레이션)".

Sang Gyo Seo, MD (Seoul National University Hospital, Korea) visited our lab. He gave a talk about orthopedic surgery.