We had a year-end party including some recreational activities and gift exchange.

We attended the KAIST Bio-IT Healthcare Initiative International Workshop Series: Deep Learning in Medical Imaging. Seoyoung presented her research work titled "Modeling 3D cell nucleus based on Shape Prior Segmentation" (co-presenters: Seokyoung Kim and Doyeob Yeo) and also received an Outstanding Presentation Award. Congratulations!

Seokyeol gave a talk titled "Haptic Interaction with Remote and Unstructured Targets" at HCI@KAIST Seminar.

Kimin and Stuart attended AsiaHaptics 2016 held in Kashiwanoha Conference Center, Chiba, Japan. They presented a demonstration titled "Engaging Weight Feedback for Bimanual Interaction" authored by Stuart Burmeister, Kimin Kim, and Jinah Park.

Prof. Park was invited to the Technical Seminar Series at Osstem Implant.

Humancare Contents Project Kickoff meeting was held in Daegu.

We attended the 9th Korea Haptics Community Workshop (제9회 한국 햅틱스 연구회 워크샵) held at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Yungi demonstrated his work titled "VR 햅틱 페인팅 (VR Haptic Painting)" (authors: Yungi Jang and Jinah Park), and Seokyeol presented a poster titled "Haptic Exploration of Dynamically Changing Remote Environments based on Point Clouds and Gestural Guidance (포인트 클라우드 및 제스처 기반 햅틱 가이드를 통한 동적 원격 환경 탐색)" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

Prof. Park presented a seminar organized by the Korea Industrial Education Institute (KIEI). The topic was ICT and AI, VR/AR-based Digital Healthcare Current Analysis and Business Model and Current Problems. She presented on Issues related to Medical Application with respect to VR Trend.

Prof. Park participated in the 2016 KWSE/APNN International Young Woman Scientist Camp and Smart Sister Workshop held in Daejeon Convention Center. She hosted the opening session, and also served as a mentor in the Group Mentoring session.

Seokyeol attended ICCAS 2016 held in Gyeongju, Korea. He presented a poster titled "A Unified Virtual Fixture Model for Haptic Telepresence Systems based on Streaming Point Cloud Data and Implicit Surfaces" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

Prof. Park presented a seminar at the Biomedical Engineering Research Center, ASAN Medical Center. She introduced the modeling, visualization, and interaction research work on-going at the CGV lab.

Seokyeol attended SUI 2016 held in Tokyo, Japan. He presented a poster titled "Haptic Exploration of Remote Environments with Gesture-based Collaborative Guidance" (authors: Seokyeol Kim and Jinah Park).

We attended GTCx Korea 2016 held in Seoul, Korea.

Prof. Park participated in K-ICT VR Festival 2016 Human-care Contents Development Project Forum held in Sangam Nurikkoom Square, Seoul. She presented a topic on ‘AR & VR and Medicine’, and also she was one of the panelists discussing the direction of the Human-care project.

Seoyoung presented her research progress on "Modeling 3D Cell Nucleus based on Shape Prior Segmentation" (presenters: Doyeop Yeo and Seyoung Kim) at the Last Wednesday Forum hosted by the KAIST Special Interest Group of Future Emerging Technology on Medical Imaging.

Jaehyun attended 2016 The Sector Union Conference of Society for Computational Design and Engineering (한국CDE학회 2016 부문연합 학술대회) held in Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea. He presented a paper titled "The Context-based Viewpoint Selection of Treelike Structures (트리 구조의 문맥 기반 뷰 포인트 선택 방법)" (authors: Jaehyun Jang and Jinah Park) and also received a distinguished paper award. Congratulations!

Kimin received a Ph.D. degree, and Eunbi and Jaehyun received a master's degree. Congratulations!

We hosted the Sweden-Korea Joint Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis held in KAIST. Prof. Örjan Smedby (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and many other researchers participated in the workshop and gave talks on medical image analysis. Also, we took a technical and cultural tour in the suburb of Daejeon.

Sekil won a distinguished paper award from KCC 2016 for his paper titled "Smooth Sea State Transition Simulation using the Interpolation of Component Waves (성분파 보간을 이용한 부드러운 해상 상태 변화 시뮬레이션)" (authors: Sekil Park, Jaeyong Oh, and Jinah Park). Congratulations!

Prof. Park organized ‘IT Women Engineers Talk Concert’ sponsored by KWSE (Association of Korean Woman Scientists and Engineers). This event was designed to promote collaboration research among female faculty members at KAIST as well as to provide mentoring for female students in graduate programs. Eunbi, Minjoo and Seoyoung also participated in the workshop.

Jaehyun, Inwoo, and Seoyoung attended 2016 KSIIM Workshop (2016년도 의학영상정보학회 학술대회) held in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Prof. Park gave a special talk on ‘Computer Graphics, Computer Haptics, and Medical Application’ to Junior high school students who participated in the Dream-Tree Science Mentoring Camp sponsored by Yusong-gu District Office.

We had the 2016 CGV Lab Workshop at KAIST. Dr. Jaeil Kim gave a lecture titled "Sharing Research Experiences on Medical Image Processing".

Our research grant proposal for Mid-career Researcher Program was accepted by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). (Title: Modeling and Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Shape Analysis of 3D/4D Cell Images)

Prof. Park hosted a GPU-based Accelerated Computing and Deep Learning Special Practice Session at KAIST for the students of CS380 (Introduction to Computer Graphics) and SoC students. (Lecturer: Yoo Hyun Gon, General Manager of NVIDIA Korea (Solution Architect))

Seoyoung attended Avison Biomedical Symposium 2016 held in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

We celebrated Teachers' Day by having a picnic to Daecheon Beach.

An interview with Prof. Park was published in the recent issue of the NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) Webzine.

Jaehyun, Stuart, and Seoyoung attended Korea Graphics World 2016 held in COEX, Seoul, Korea.

We had a cherry blossom viewing picnic at KAIST.

Jaehyun won the Best Presentation Award of Last Wednesday Forum hosted by the KAIST Research Group of Future Emerging Technology on Medical Imaging. Congratulations!

Seoyoung and Inwoo joined CGV Lab. Welcome!

Taeho and Eunbi attended SPIE Medical Imaging 2016 held in San Diego, CA, United States. Taeho presented a poster titled "Reliable measurement of 3D foot bone angles based on the frame-of-reference derived from a sole of the foot" (authors: Taeho Kim, Dong Yeon Lee, and Jinah Park), and Eunbi also presented a poster titled "Template-based automatic extraction of the joint space of foot bones from CT scan" (authors: Eunbi Park, Taeho Kim, and Jinah Park).

Uitae and Youngju received a master's degree. Congratulations!

In celebration of the 45th anniversary of KAIST's founding, Prof. Park received an 'Outstanding Contribution Prize.' Congratulations!

Prof. Park, Seokyeol, and Stuart attended HCI Korea 2016 held in High1 Resort, Gangwon-do, Korea. Prof. Park gave a talk on the topic of "Subject-specific Organ Reconstruction and Analysis using 3D Deformable Modeling Technique" in the 'ICT and 3D printing technologies for medical applications' workshop. Also, Seokyeol presented a paper titled "Multi-layered Radial Table for Visualizing Origin-Destination Data (OD 데이터 시각화를 위한 다중 계층 래디얼 테이블)" (authors: Seokyeol Kim, Youngju Oh, and Jinah Park), and Stuart presented a poster titled "An Integrated Smart Lock System Using Randomized Hand Gesture Interaction on an AR interface as an Authentication (증강현실 인터페이스상의 무작위 핸드 제스쳐 인터랙션을 인증수단으로 활용하는 통합 스마트 도어락 시스템)" (authors: Amartuvshin Narangerel, Stuart Burmeister, and Sungyong Kim).

We had a new year luncheon with neighboring labs.

Minju joined CGV Lab. Welcome!