Dr Stephen Laycock
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
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| Lecturer |
S dot Laycock at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3795 |
Environmental 2.12 |
Career
Stephen was appointed as a Lecturer in January 2005 and is part of the Graphics, Vision and Speech Lab.
Stephen's research interests include Collision Detection, Deformable objects, Real-time rendering and haptic interfaces. He is also interested in the application of new graphics techniques to Cultural Heritage, scientific visualisation and virtual training simulations. His research into haptic rendering led to a book chapter on the subject included in the book titled "Haptic Rendering: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications" edited by Ming Lin and Miguel Otaduy. His research in this area continues with the development of novel haptic rendering algorithms suitable for Molecular Graphics. Software based on these algorithms is available for download from http://www.haptimol.co.uk. For more details on his research and publications please click on the research box above.
PhD Projects
Academic Background
Stephen gained a First Class degree in Computing Science in 2001 from the School of Information Systems (now known as the School of Computing Sciences), UEA. He was awarded a PhD titled "The Haptic Rendering of Tools in a Virtual Environment" from the School of Computing Sciences, UEA in 2005.
Key Research Interests
Stephen Laycock is part of the Computer Graphics Group.
Stephen's research focuses on haptic rendering, geometric algorithms and real-time rendering. He is particularly interested in using haptic feedback devices for education and training. Research projects include using haptics within medical and dental training and the use of haptics to aid in the understanding of the mechanical properties of proteins. Software has been released for interacting with biomolecules using a haptic device (http://www.haptimol.co.uk). Stephen is also interested in the application of new graphics techniques to the fields of Cultural Heritage, Scientific Visualisation and Virtual Training Simulations.
Publications
Tam, M.D., Laycock, S.D., Bell, G.D. and Chojnowski, A., 3-D printout of a DICOM file to aid surgical planning in a 6 year old patient with a large scapula osteochondroma complicating congenital diaphyseal aclasia, Journal of Radiology Case Reports, 6(1), 31-37, 2012.
Asque, C.T., Day, A.M. and Laycock, S.D., Haptic Assisted Target Acquisition in a visual point-and-click task for computer users with motion-impairments, To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2011.
Reynolds, D.T., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., Remodelling of Botanical Trees for Real-time Simulation, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Warwick, September, 2011.
Applegate, C.S., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., A sketch-based system for highway design, Proc. Of the eigth Eurographics symp. On Sketch-based interfaces and modelling, August, 2011. DOI=10.1145/2021164.2021175
Applegate, C.S., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., A sketch-based algorithm for generating roads, Proc. Of the eigth Eurographics symp. On Sketch-based interfaces and modelling, August, 2011.
Laycock, S.D., Brown, P.G., Laycock, R.G. and Day, A.M., Aligning archive maps and extracting footprints for analysis of historic urban environments, Computers & Graphics, 35(2), 242-249, 2011.Stocks, M.B., Laycock, S.D. and Hayward, S., Applying forces to elastic network models of large biomolecules using a haptic feedback device, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 25(3), 203-211, 2011.
Applegate, C.S., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., Real-Time Traffic Simulation Using Cellular Automata, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, pp. 91-98, Sheffield, UK, 2010.
Molnos, M.R., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., Using the Discrete Fourier Transform for Character Motion Blending and Manipulation - a Streamlined Approach, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, pp. 207-214, Sheffield, UK, 2010.
Laycock, S.D., Stocks, M.B. and Hayward, S., Navigation and exploration of large data-sets using a haptic feedback device, ACM Siggraph: Posters, 2010.Dorgham, O, Fisher M., Laycock, S.D., Vinall, A.J. and Holmes-Smith, W., Fast 2D/3D Image Registration using Accelerated Generation of Sparsely Rendered Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Volume 5, Supplement 1, pp. S68, June 2010.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D., Haptic Rendering Algorithm for drilling into datasets, WSCG 2010, February, 2010.
Madera, F.A., Laycock, S.D., and Day A.M., Detecting Self-Collisions using a hybrid bounding volume algorithm, In proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2010.Stocks, M.B., Hayward, S. and Laycock, S.D., Interacting with the biomolecular solvent accessible surface via a haptic feedback device, BMC Structural Biology, 9:69, 2009.
Dorgham, O, Fisher, M. and Laycock, S., Performance of a 2d-3d image registration system using (lossy) compressed x-ray ct, The Annals of the BMVA, (3), 2009.
Dorgham, O, Fisher, M. and Laycock, S., Accelerated generation of digitally reconstructed radiographs using parallel processing, in Proc. Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2009, Jul. 14-15 2009, pp. 239-243.
Dorgham, O, Fisher, M. and Laycock, S., Accelerated generation of digitally reconstructed radiographs, in Proceedings of the 5th UKRI PG Conference in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics 2009, University of Oxford, UK, Jul. 12-14 2009, pp. 19-20.
Laycock, R.G., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., Reconstruction of large cultural heritage sites from archived maps, VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Malta, 41-48, 2009,
Simnett, T., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., "An Edge-based Approach to Adaptively Refining a Mesh for Cloth Deformation", Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Cardiff, UK, June, pp 77-84, 2009.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D., “A Haptic System for Drilling into Volume Data with Polygonal Tools”, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, June 2009.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D., "The Force-Map Haptic Rendering Algorithm", WSCG 09, February, 2009.
Laycock, S.D., Laycock, R.G., Drinkwater D.M. and Day A.M., "Real-time visualisation of multiple time dependent reconstruction hypotheses for a cultural heritage site", VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Braga, Portugal, December, pp 93-100, 2008.
Stocks, M.B. and Laycock, S.D., "A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Molecular Interaction", Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 37-44, October, 2008.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D., "A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Drilling into Volume Data", EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Manchester, United Kingdom, pp. 155-158, June, 2008.
Basdogan, C. and Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M. and Patoglu, V. and Gillespie, R.B., "Three-Degree-Of-Freedom Rendering", In Haptic Rendering: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications, Edited by Lin, M.C. and Otaduy, M., A.K. Peters, ISBN 978-1-56881-332-5, pp. 351-378, 2008.
Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., "A Survey of Haptic Rendering Techniques", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 50-65, 2007.
Madera, F., Day, A.M., and Laycock, S.D., "Fast Hierarchical Methods to Detect Collisions Between Deformable Objects: A Comparison", In Eurographics Short Papers, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 69-72, 2007.
Madera, F., Day, A., and Laycock, S.D., A Distance Hierarchy to Detect Collisions Between Deformable Objects, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, pp. 53-60, 2007.
Madera, F.A., Day, A.M., and Laycock, S.D., "Collision Detection for Deformable Objects using Octrees", In In Proc. of Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, pp. 115-122, 2006.
Laycock, R.G., Laycock, S.D., and Day, A.M., "Haptic Navigation and Exploration of High Quality Pre-rendered Environments", In 7th VAST06, Cyprus, pp. 17-24, 2006.
Madera, F.A., Day, A.M., and Laycock, S.D., "The use of Tetrahedra to Detect Collisions", In In Proc. of the Third Workshop in Virtual Reality, Interactions and Physical Simulations (VRIPHYS), pp. 121-122, 2006.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M., Incorporating Haptic Feedback for the Simulation of a Deformable Tool in a Rigid Scene. Computers & Graphics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page(s) 341-351, 2005.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M., A Hybrid Collision Detection Approach for the Haptic Rendering of Tools. In Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI), p148-155, 2004.
Lapeer, R.J. and Gasson, P. and Florens, J-L. and Laycock, S.D. and Karri, V., "Introducing a Novel Haptic Interface for the Planning and Simulation of Open Surgery", In Proceedings of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR12) Conference, Newport, California, pp. 197-199, 2004.
Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., "Simulating Deformable Tools with Haptic Feedback in a Virtual Environment", In WSCG, Plzen, pp. 75-81, 2003.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M., "The Haptic Rendering of Polygonal Models involving Deformable Tools". EUROHAPTICS 2003 p176-192, 2003.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M., Recent Developments and Applications of Haptic Devices. Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page(s) 117-132, 2003.
Teaching Interests
Article
Tam, Matthew, Laycock, Stephen, Bell, Duncan and Chojnowski, Adrian (2012) 3-D printout of a DICOM file to aid surgical planning in a 6 year old patient with a large scapular osteochondroma complicating congenital diaphyseal aclasia. Journal of Radiology Case Reports, 6 (1). pp. 31-37. ISSN 1943-0922
Laycock, S, Brown, P, Laycock, R and Day, A (2011) Aligning archive maps and extracting footprints for analysis of historic urban environments. Computers & Graphics, 35 (2). pp. 242-249.
Asque, CT, Day, AM and Laycock, SD (2011) Haptic Assisted Target Acquisition in a Visual Point-and-Click Task for Computer Users with Motion-Impairments. IEEE Transactions on Haptics.
Stocks, Matthew, Laycock, Stephen and Hayward, Steven (2011) Applying forces to elastic network models of large biomolecules using a haptic feedback device. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 25 (3). pp. 203-211.
Dorgham, Osama, Fisher, Mark, Laycock, Stephen, Vinall, A. J. and Holmes-Smith, W. (2010) Fast 2D/3D Image Registration using Accelerated Generation of Sparsely Rendered Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 5 (S1). S68. ISSN 1861-6410
Stocks, Matthew B., Hayward, Steven and Laycock, Stephen D. (2009) Interacting with the biomolecular solvent accessible surface via a haptic feedback device. BMC Structural Biology, 9. p. 69. ISSN 1472-6807
Dorgham, Osama, Fisher, Mark and Laycock, Stephen D. (2008) Performance of 2D-3D image registration using (lossy) compressed X-ray CT. Annals of the BMVA, 2009 (3). pp. 1-11.
Madera, FA, Day, AM and Laycock, SD (2007) A Distance Hierarchy to Detect Collisions Between Deformable Objects. Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics. pp. 53-60.
Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2007) A Survey of Haptic Rendering Techniques. Computer Graphics Forum, 26 (1). pp. 50-65. ISSN 1467-8659
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2005) Incorporating Haptic Feedback for the Simulation of a Deformable Tool in a Rigid Scene. Computers & Graphics, 29 (3). pp. 341-351. ISSN 0097-8493
Lapeer, Rudy J., Gasson, Paul, Florens, Jean-Loup, Laycock, Stephen D. and Karri, Vasu (2004) Introducing a Novel Haptic Interface for the Planning and Simulation of Open Surgery. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 98. pp. 197-199. ISSN 0926-9630
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2003) Recent Developments and Applications of Haptic Devices. Computer Graphics Forum, 22 (2). pp. 117-132.
Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2003) The Haptic Rendering of Polygonal Models involving Deformable Tools. Eurohaptics. pp. 176-192.
Book Section
Basdogan, C., Laycock, S. D., Day, A. M., Patoglu, V. and Gillespie, R. B. (2007) Three-Degree-Of-Freedom Rendering. In: Haptic Rendering: Foundations, Algorithms and Applications. A K Peters, pp. 351-378. ISBN 978-1568813325
Conference or Workshop Item
Applegate, C, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2011) A sketch based algorithm for generating roads. In: ACM/Eurographics: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, August 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
Applegate, C, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2011) A Sketch based system for highway design. In: ACM/Eurographics: Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, August 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
Reynolds, DT, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2011) Remodelling of Botanical Trees for Real-Time Simulation. In: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, September 2011, Warwick, UK.
Applegate, CS, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2010) Real-Time Traffic Simulation Using Cellular Automata. In: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 6-8 Sept 2010, Sheffield, UK.
Laycock, S.D., Stocks, M.B. and Hayward, S. (2010) Navigation and exploration of large data-sets using a haptic feedback device. In: ACM Siggraph: Posters.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D. (2010) Haptic Rendering Algorithm for drilling into datasets. In: WSCG February 2010.
Madera, F. A., Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2010) Detecting Self-Collisions using a hybrid bounding volume algorithm. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 10-15 Feb. 2010, Saint Maarten.
Molnos, MRL, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2010) Using the Discrete Fourier Transform for Character Motion Blending and Manipulation - a Streamlined Approach. In: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 6-8 Sept 2010, Sheffield, UK.
Dorgham, Osama, Fisher, Mark and Laycock, Stephen (2009) Accelerated generation of digitally reconstructed radiographs using parallel processing. In: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, 14th-15th July 2009, Kingston University, London.
Dorgham, Osama, Fisher, Mark and Laycock, Stephen (2009) Accelerated generation of digitally reconstructed radiographs for 2D/3D medical image registration. In: Proceedings of PgBiomed, July 2009, University of Oxford.
Laycock, R.G., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M. (2009) Reconstruction of large cultural heritage sites from archived maps. In: VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Malta.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D. (2009) The Force-Map Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Drilling into Volume Data. In: 17-th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2009), February 2 - 5, 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D. (2009) A Haptic System for Drilling into Volume Data with Polygonal Tools. In: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, June 2009..
Madera, F., Day, A. M. and Laycock, S. D. (2009) A Hybrid Bounding Volume Algorithm to Detect Collisions between Deformable Objects. In: Second International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, February 2009, Cancun, Mexico.
Simnett, Timothy, Laycock, Stephen D. and Day, Andy M. (2009) An Edge-based Approach to Adaptively Refining a Mesh for Cloth Deformation. In: Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Cardiff, UK.
Laycock, S.D., Laycock, R.G., Drinkwater, D.M. and Day, A.M. (2008) Real-time visualisation of multiple time dependent reconstruction hypotheses for a cultural heritage site. In: VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Braga, Portugal, December.
Liu, Y. and Laycock, S.D. (2008) A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Drilling into Volume Data. In: EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, Manchester, United Kingdom, June, 2008..
Stocks, M.B. and Laycock, S.D. (2008) A Haptic Rendering Algorithm for Molecular Interaction. In: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine, Delft.
Madera, Francisco, Day, Andy and Laycock, Stephen (2007) Fast Hierarchical Methods to Detect Collisions between Deformable Objects: A Comparison. In: EuroGraphics 07, September 3-7, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.
Madera Ramirez, F, Day, AM and Laycock, SD (2007) A distance hierarchy to detect collisions between deformable objects. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Laycock, R. G., Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2006) Haptic Navigation and Exploration of High Quality Pre-rendered Environments. In: VAST06: The 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Madera, F. A., Day, A. M. and Laycock, S. D. (2006) The use of Tetrahedra to Detect Collisions. In: Proceedings of the Third Workshop in Virtual Reality, Interactions and Physical Simulations (VRIPHYS), 6-7 Nov 2006, Madrid, Spain.
Madera Ramirez, Francisco, Day, Andy and Laycock, Stephen (2006) Collision Detection for Deformable Objects using Octrees. In: EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 20th – 22nd June 2006, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2005) Touching the virtual world. In: Royal Society Summer Exhibition, July 2005, London.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2004) A hybrid collision detection approach for the haptic rendering of deformable tools. In: Proceedings of Computer Graphics International (CGI), 19 June 2004, Crete.
Laycock, S. D. and Day, A. M. (2003) Simulating Deformable Tools with Haptic Feedback in a Virtual Environment. In: 11th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), February 3 - 7, 2003, University of West Bohemia, Campus Bory, Plzen - Bory, Czech Republic.
