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:
  • [Apr 2012] Poster at ICCP 2012: Daniel Vaquero presented his research entitled "Composition Context Photography" as a poster at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2012), held in Seattle from April 27-29.
  • [Apr 2012] Paper at MobileHCI 2012: Our work "Integrating the Physical Environment into Mobile Remote Collaboration", by Steffen Gauglitz, Cha Lee, Matthew Turk, and Tobias Höllerer, has been accepted as a full paper to ACM SIGCHI's International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) 2012. (Project page will follow soon.) Join us in San Francisco Sept. 21-24!
  • [Apr 2012] Paper at IEEE ICIP 2012: Our paper "Locating Binary Features for Keypoint Recognition using Noncooperative Games" by Victor Fragoso, Matthew Turk and Joao Hespanha will be presented at IEEE ICIP 2012.
  • [Apr 2012] Talk In The Celebration Of Women in Computing In Southern California (CWIC-SoCal) : Saiph Savage gave a talk about her research in the HCI and AI track at the  CWIC-SoCal 2012 in Santa Ana, California.
  • [Apr 2012] The Celebration of Women in Computing in Southern California (CWIC-SoCal) : Nichole Stockman, Yun Teng and Saiph Savage were awarded scholarships to attend CWIC-SoCal 2012 in Santa Ana. California.
  • [Apr 2012] Invited talk in Hong Kong: Matthew Turk will give an invited talk in May at a workshop on the topic of Embedded Systems for Cyber Physical Systems, to take place at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
  • [Apr 2012] Qualcomm Research talk: Matthew Turk visited Qualcomm in San Diego on April 2 to give a talk on Computational Illumination.
  • [Mar 2012] Poster at IEEE Intelligent Environments 2012: Our work, "Enchantment under the sea: An intelligent environment for user friendly  music mixing", by Rodrigo Savage, Saiph Savage   will be presented at IEEE IE'12 on June 26th Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • [Mar 2012] Paper at IUI2012: Byungkyu (Jay) Kang and John O'Donovan attended ACM International Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces in Lisbon, Portugal.  Jay presented their full paper on "Modeling Topic-Specific Credibility in Twitter" (advised by Tobias Höllerer)
  • [Feb 2012] Poster at IEEE Virtual Reality 2012: Our work, "Examining the Equivalence of Simulated and Real AR on a Visual Following and Identification Task", by Cha Lee, Steffen Gauglitz, Tobias Höllerer, and Doug Bowman will be presented at IEEE VR on March 4th in Irvine, CA.

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