Tobias Sielhorst, Tobias Blum and Nassir Navab get NDI 2nd Best Paper Award at ISMAR 2005 Movie (AVI) of EVI live demo at ISMAR'05 1st Russian-Bavarian Conference in Bio-Medical Engineering Movie (AVI) Port Placement MICCAI'05 Christian Sandor gets his Ph.D.! Jörg Traub gets the Werner von Siemens Excellence Award Selected Recent Publications J. Traub, P. Stefan, S.M. Heining, T. Sielhorst, C. Riquarts, E. Euler, N. Navab Towards a Hybrid Navigation Interface: Comparison of a Slice Based Navigation System with In-situ Visualization Proceedings of International Workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR 2006), Shanghai, China, August, 2006, pp.179-186 (bib) M. Feuerstein, K. Filippatos, O. Kutter, E.U. Schirmbeck, R. Bauernschmitt, N. Navab A Novel Segmentation and Navigation Tool for Endovascular Stenting of Aortic Aneurysms International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006; Vol. 1 Suppl. 1, page 280 - 282. The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com (bib) S.M. Heining, S. Wiesner, E. Euler, N. Navab Pedicle screw placement under video-augmented fluoroscopic control. First clinical application in a cadaver study International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006; Vol. 1 Suppl. 1, page 189-190. The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com (bib) T. Sielhorst, M. Feuerstein, J. Traub, O. Kutter, N. Navab CAMPAR: A software framework guaranteeing quality for medical augmented reality International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006; Vol. 1 Suppl. 1, page 29 - 30. The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com (bib) J. Traub, P. Stefan, S.M. Heining, T. Sielhorst, C. Riquarts, E. Euler, N. Navab Stereoscopic augmented reality navigation for trauma surgery: cadaver experiment and usability study International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2006; Vol. 1 Suppl. 1, page 30 - 31. The original publication is available online at www.springerlink.com (bib) A. Khamene, R. Chisu, W. Wein, N. Navab, F. Sauer A Novel Projection Based Approach for Medical Image Registration Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), 9-11 July 2006, Utrecht, The Netherlands. (bib) H. Najafi, Y. Genc, N. Navab Fusion of 3D and Appearance Models for Fast Object Detection and Pose Estimation Notes in Computer Science, 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2006. (bib)

Invited Talks and Other Events June 09, 2006   Computer Vision Workshop - following talks will be presented: Dipl. Inf. Andreas Hofhauser: Deformable object detection @ Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality, TU Muenchen. Ph.D. Giorgio Panin: Multi-Modal Face and Object Tracking Strategies @ Chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems, TU Muenchen. Dipl. Inf. Wolfgang Sepp: Efficient Shape-Texture based Tracking with the Image-Constancy Assumption in 3-d @ Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR). Dr.-Ing. Didier Stricker: Presentation of the activities of the department of "Virtual and Augmented Reality" @ Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt. The talks take place on Friday (9 June 06) from 10:00 to 12:00 in the room MI 03.13.010 June 02, 2006   Computer Vision Workshop - following talks will be presented: Irfan Essa: Presentation of the Interactive and Intelligent Computing Division (College of Computing - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta) Vincent Lepetit: Feature Harvesting for Tracking-by-Detection (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Matthias Grundmann: A real-time learning-free texture-based tracking algorithm (TU München) Andreas Hofhauser: Deformable object detection (TU München). The talks take place on Friday (2 June 06) from 10:00 to 12:00 in the room MI 01.07.014 May 01, 2006   Kick-off: The Avicenna Roentgen Collaboration The Avicenna Roentgen Collaboration is a DAAD supported collaboration program between universities in Teheran and the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality. It includes extensive exchange programs and workshops in medical engineering and augmented reality. Feb 07, 2006   Talk by Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab The topic of the talk: Medical Augmented Reality: state of art, recent developments and remaining challenges The talk takes place on Feb 07, 2006 (Tuesday) at 17:15 in the Amalienstr. 17, room 105 Feb 1, 2006   Invited Talk Dr. Adrien Bartoli, LASMEA Laboratory, France The topic of the talk: Image Registration by Combining Thin-Plate Spline Mappings With a 3D Morphable Model The talk takes place on Feb 1, 2006 (Wednesday) at 11:00 in room 03.013.010.