In the Four Eyes Lab our research focus is on the "four I's" of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. The lab is directed by Profs. Matthew Turk and Tobias Höllerer, and includes several graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs and visitors.

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UCSB Four Eyes Lab
Imaging, Interaction, and
Innovative Interfaces

Announcements:

• "An Immaterial Depth-Fused 3D Display" by C. Lee, S. DiVerdi, and T. Höllerer received the Best Student Paper award at ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2007.

• Cha Lee was selected Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Computer Science for 2006-07 by graduating seniors in the department. Congratulations, Cha!

• The Four Eyes Lab's FogScreen Project was prominently featured in the Discovery Channel's show, "2057: The World of Tomorrow". Read more about the appearance here.

• The Four Eyes Lab had another successful Open House on Thursday, October 26, 2006, for everyone interested in finding out about our research activities in detail. Read more about the projects we presented here.

• The ACM Multimedia 2006 conference took place in Santa Barbara on October 23-27. Matthew Turk was a general chair for the conference.

• The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mobile Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2006) took place in Santa Barbara on October 22-25. Tobias Höllerer was a general chair for the conference.

• An overview talk (streaming video and PPT slides) about some of the lab's research is available here.

• The Four Eyes Lab was recently featured in an article in the Santa Barabara News-Press. The article is available here for download.

• The Four Eyes Lab had an Open House on Wednesday, March 16, 2006, for everyone interested to find out about our research activities in detail. The projects presented are listed here

• The Fogscreen project, directed by Tobias Höllerer and Ismo Rakkolainen, was covered in BBC's GoDigital radio program from December 12, 2005. The two-sided interactive Fogscreen display is tried out by BBC reporter Molly Bentley, who interviews Prof. Höllerer "through the screen". The radio piece, which also covers a new computer vision interface from Microsoft Research, starts at about 8:27 in the program and is 4 1/2 minutes long. An MP3 file containing the UCSB segment can be found here; the whole show can be found on BBC's GoDigital web site.

• The FourEyes Lab presented the Interactive FogScreen at SIGGRAPH 2005's Emerging Technologies. We demoed our latest project for five straight days and appeared on multiple international news broadcasts!

• In preparation for SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies, the FourEyes Lab held an informal Demo Session / Open House on Tuesday, July 26th, to show off the new Interactive FogScreen. We had a great turnout!

• The Four Eyes Lab held an Open House on Wednesday, January 12, 2005, for visitors and colleagues to find out about our research activities in more detail. The projects presented are discussed here.

• Steve Diverdi won the best paper award at the Doctoral Colloquium of the joint International Conferences on Wearable Computers and Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISWC and IEEE/ACM ISMAR). Steve's prize consists of a full-fledged wearable computer, complete with clip-on head-worn display, donated by Xybernaut.

• Doctoral student Mathias Kölsch and Professor Matthew Turk received the best paper award at the IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI 2004) in Washington, DC. The paper, "Fast 2D Hand Tracking with Flocks of Features and Multi-Cue Integration," describes a system to reliably and robustly detect and track a user's hand in an augmented reality environment using a small, head-worn camera, used as an input modality for HCI in a mobile computing environment.

• The Four Eyes Lab held a lunch-time student Happy Hour on Sept. 8th, 2004. This open event introduced about 60 undergrad and graduate students from different departments to our research, offering the opportunity to evaluate some of the interface technologies we are working on.

• The Four Eyes Lab gave a workshop for MESA and Los Ingenieros Science and Technology Day on April 24th, 2004. The workshop introduced 80 junior and senior high school students to our research in vision and interaction.

• The Four Eyes Lab had an Open House on Friday, October 24th, 2003, for visitors and colleagues to find out about our research activities in more detail. Here is the brochure describing the projects that were discussed.