Dr Stephen Laycock
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
S dot Laycock at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3795 |
Sciences 2.12 |
Career
Stephen was appointed as a Lecturer in January 2005 and is part of the Graphics, Vision and Speech Lab. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2012.
Stephen's research interests include Haptic Rendering, Collision Detection, Deformable objects and Real-time rendering. 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. The latest features of HaptiMOL ISAS are shown in the video. 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 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). The latest features of HaptiMOL ISAS are shown in the video. Stephen is also interested in the application of new graphics techniques to the fields of Cultural Heritage, Scientific Visualisation and Virtual Training Simulations.
Selected Publications
Asque, C.T., Day, A.M. and Laycock, S.D., Cursor Navigation using Haptics for Motion-Impaired Computer Users, Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility and Communication, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Eurohaptics Proceedings), 2012, 13-24
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Applegate, C.S., Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., A Sketch-Based System for Highway Design with User-Specified Regions of Influence, Computers & Graphics, 36(6), 685-695, 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, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 5(2), 2012, 120-130.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Laycock, S.D. and Day, A.M., A Survey of Haptic Rendering Techniques, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 50-65, 2007.
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., Recent Developments and Applications of Haptic Devices. Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page(s) 117-132, 2003.
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Teaching Interests
Article
Laycock, S, Bell, GD, Mortimore, DB, Greco, MK, Corps, N and Finkle, I (2013) Combining X-ray micro-CT technology and 3D printing for the digital preservation and study of a 19th century cantonese chess piece with intricate internal structure. Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 5 (4). 13:1-13:7.
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
Applegate, CS, Laycock, SD and Day, AM (2012) A sketch-based system for highway design with user-specified regions of influence. Computers & Graphics, 36 (6). pp. 685-695. ISSN 00978493
Asque, CT, Day, AM and Laycock, SD (2012) Haptic Assisted Target Acquisition in a visual point-and-click task for computer users with motion-impairments. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 5 (2). pp. 120-130.
Dorgham, O, Laycock, S and Fisher, M (2012) Fast reconstructed radiographs from Octree compressed volumetric data. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. pp. 1-10.
Dorgham, O, Laycock, S and Fisher, M (2012) GPU Accelerated Generation of Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs for 2D/3D Image Registration. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59 (9). pp. 2594-2603.
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.
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
Bailey, S, Powell, C, Laycock, S and Day, A (2012) Interactive Exploration of Historic Information via Gesture Recognition. In: International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), September 2012, Milan.
Brown, P, Laycock, S and Day, A (2012) Vectorising Building Footprints from Historic Maps. In: The 13th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Brighton, UK.
Asque, C, Day, A and Laycock, S (2012) Cursor Navigation using Haptics for Motion-Impaired Computer Users. In: Eurohaptics, 2012, Finland.
Hulse, M, Tam, M, Isherwood, S, Scrase, C, Laycock, S, Mortimore, D, Patman, J, Short, S and Bell, D (2012) Production of 3-D printer-generated radiotherapy shells using DICOM CT, MRI or 3-D surface laser scan – Acquired STL files: Preclinical feasibility studies. In: NCRI Cancer Conference, November 2012, Liverpool, UK.
Powell, C, Laycock, S, Day, A, Bailey, S, rodziewicz, J, Gregory, J and Williamson, T (2012) HistOracle: Consolidation and Dissemination of Heritage Information. In: International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), Milan.
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.
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.
