WELCOME!

The Computational Interaction and Robotics Lab is a research laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. We are also associated with the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERC-CISST). We are interested in understanding the problems that involve dynamic, spatial interaction at the intersection of vision, robotics, and human-computer interaction.

The lab is directed by Dr. Gregory D. Hager. We are located in the New Engineering Building on the lovely Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University. Please click on the people link in the navigation menu for members of the CIRL Lab. Current members include faculty, faculty collaborators, and graduate students.

For information regarding current research projects, please click on the research link. The research page also details the past projects in the lab and also potential projects in the lab.

The publications page lists in backwards chronology the papers authored by members of this lab that have or will be in publication. Note that this might not be a complete list. Please contact Dr. Hager or a member of this lab if you are looking for a specific paper not listed.

The XVision is the Johns Hopkins open source visual tracking software developed by Dr Hager and his graduate students. The media page contains pictures, movies, presentations, data sets and further information.

Please feel free to contact any member of this lab if you have any questions or comments!

Recent News:

Jan 1, 2007 - Tiffany Chen has joined the lab as a Biomedical Engineering Master's Student. Welcome!

Oct 1-6 - Sharmi, Maneesh and Dr. Hager went to the 2006 MICCAI in Copenhagen. Sharmi had a poster, "Real-Time Endoscopic Mosaicking". Maneesh had a CVII workshop presentation, "Robust Image-Based Motion Tracking for Coronary MR Angiography".

Oct 1 - Carol Reiley and Dan Abretske have joined the lab as first year PhD students. Welcome!

Sept 1 - Dan Mirota and Ioana Fleming have joined the lab as first year PhD students. Welcome!

Summer 2006 - There are two Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer in the CIRL Lab. David Mayhew will be mentored by Maneesh. Elia Junco will be mentored by Henry. Welcome!

Summer 2006 - Sharmi spends her summer in Colorado as an intern for Medtronic.

April 7 - Sharmi has been selected as one of 19 winners in the 2006 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding young women completing degrees in the field of computer science. Congratulations Sharmi!

March 15 - Henry has won the Link Foundation Advanced Simulation and Training Fellowship! Thank you to the Link Foundation and the Institute for Simulation & Training at the University of Central Florida. The fellowship is for the 2006-07 academic year. Henry will be continuing his research on surgical modeling. Congratulations Henry!

February 28 - "Towards Optimal Kernel Tracking" paper authored by Maneesh Dewan and Gregory D. Hager accepted for poster presentation in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2006 in New York City. The conference will take place in June.

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