Welcome!

Welcome to the UCSB Four Eyes Lab, in the Computer Science Department and the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our research focus is on the "four I's" of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. The lab is directed by Professors Matthew Turk and Tobias Höllerer, and includes several graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs and visitors.

Visit these links to find out more about the lab, its people and activities:

  • People — Faculty, staff, students, visitors
  • Research — Current research projects
  • Publications — Group publications
  • Info — Courses, conferences, documentation, links
  • Datasets — made available for research purposes
  • Contact — Contact info, maps, directions, local information
News:
  • [Jan 2012] Innovation Nation: The Four Eyes Lab is featured in an episode of Innovation Nation, a science show which currently airs on Discovery Science and SCN in Canada.  Watch clips online!
  • [Dec 2011] Ph.D. Defense: Jonathan Ventura also defended his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "Wide-Area Visual Modeling and Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality". Congratulations!
  • [Nov 2011] Ph.D. Defense: Brynjar Gretarsson successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis -- congratulations, Brynjar!
  • [Aug 2011] Paper at IWMV 2011: Our Paper "Automatic text detection for mobile augmented reality translation" by Marc Petter, Victor Fragoso, Matthew Turk and Charles Baur has been accepted at the IWMV 2011.
  • [Aug 2011] SIGGRAPH 2011 Poster: Daniel Vaquero presented a poster on "The Composition Context in Point-and-Shoot Photography" at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference in Vancouver. Daniel's work was a Semi-Finalist at the ACM Student Research Competition.
  • [Aug 2011] Paper at LBS 2011: Our ongoing work  "Seems familiar: An algorithm for automatically inferring spatial familiarity" by Saiph Savage, Wendy Chun and Tobias Höllerer was  accepted in the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services.
  • [Jul 2011] Paper at LBS 2011: Our paper  "I'm Feeling LoCo: A Location Based Context Aware Recommendation System" by Saiph Savage and Tobias Höllerer was conditionally accepted in the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services. It will be published in a special volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Cartography and Geoinformation.
  • [Jul 2011] Poster at ISMAR 2011: Our work entitled "Outdoor Mobile Localization from Panoramic Imagery," by Jonathan Ventura and Tobias Höllerer, has been conditionally accepted at the ISMAR 2011 poster session.
  • [Jul 2011] ISMAR 2011 Paper: Our paper, "Evaluating the Impact of Recovery Density on Augmented Reality Tracking", was accepted as a full paper at ISMAR 2011.
  • [Jul 2011] Ph.D. Defense: Christopher Coffin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Augmented Reality Panoramas as User-Contributed Content."  Congratulations, Chris!