My research work focuses on image-guided simulation, augmented reality for deformable objects and 3D shape recovery of non-rigid surfaces with an application to surgery. Take a look at my publications for more details.
Besides my research activities, I used to teach bachelor-level courses in Computer Science at the University of Lille at Polytech'Lille. I was a member of the organization committee of the EuroGraphics workshop VRIPHYS and the conference ISBMS and co-chair during the Medical Robotics session at IROS. I've also been a reviewer for IJCV, CVPR, CVIU, IROS, ICRA, CGI and more.
I've had the chance to work on various projects thourgh many collaborations: on force feedback estimation with Micheal Yip (UCSD), on realistic surgical rehearsal with Dan Stoyanov (UCL), on deformable augmented reality with Dan Goldman (Google), and on image and video editing Matthias Niessner (Stanford/TUM). Do not hesitate to reach out if you have exciting ideas ;)
Some projects in videos
Awrads and Honours
- Harvard Data Science Initiative postdoctoral research grant, 2020
- IEEE Best Poster Award (runner-up) @ ISMAR 2017
- TVCG Top Ranked AR/VR paper 2015 (presented at SIGGRAPH)
- NVIDIA Computer Graphics Prize for Medical Software @ EuroGraphics 2015
- TVCG Top Ranked AR/VR paper 2014 (presented at SIGGRAPH Asia)
- IEEE Best Paper Award (runner-up) @ ISMAR 2013
Software and Code
A large part of my work is based on the open source Sofa framework, an efficient framework dedicated to research, prototyping and development of physics-based simulations.
- Predicted Microscopic Cortical Brain Images for Optimal Craniotomy Positioning and Visualization.
Nazim Haouchine, Parikshit Juvekar, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering MICCAI Workshop 2020.
- Deformation Aware Augmented Reality for Craniotomy using 3D/2D Non-rigid Registration of Cortical Vessels.
Nazim Haouchine, Parikshit Juvekar, William Wells Iii, Stephane Cotin, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention MICCAI 2020.
★ Oral presentation. Rank A (acceptance rate ~5%).
- Deformed Reality.
Antoine Petit, Nazim Haouchine, Frédérick Roy, Dan Goldman, Stéphane Cotin
Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (Eurographics) CGVC 2019
Runner-up, Best poster award ISMAR 2017.
- Calipso: Physics-based Image and Video Editing through CAD Model Proxies.
Nazim Haouchine, Frédérick Roy, Hadrien Courtecuisse, Matthias Nießner, Stéphane Cotin
Visual Computer 2018 (Impact factor: 1.527)
- Vision-based Force Feedback Estimation for Robot-assisted Surgery using Instrument-constrained Biomechanical 3D Maps.
Nazim Haouchine, Winnie Kuang, Stéphane Cotin and Michael Yip
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters RAL 2018 (Impact factor: 3.6)
- Template-based Monocular 3D Recovery of Elastic Shapes using Lagrangian Multipliers.
Nazim Haouchine and Stéphane Cotin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2017 (Rank A+)
- DejaVu: Intra-operative Simulation for Surgical Gesture Rehearsal.
Nazim Haouchine, Danail Stoyanov, Frederick Roy and Stéphane Cotin
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Conference MICCAI 2017 (Rank A)
- Image-guided simulation of heterogeneous tissue deformation for augmented reality during hepatic surgery.
Nazim Haouchine, Jeremie Dequidt, Igor Peterlik, Mario Sanz-Lopez, Erwan Kerrien, Marie-Odile Berger and Stephane Cotin.
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2013. ISMAR 2013
Best paper award ISMAR 2013, Honorable Mention
- Impact of Soft Tissue Heterogeneity on Augmented Reality for Liver Surgery.
Nazim Haouchine, Stephane Cotin, Igor Peterlik, Jeremie Dequidt, Mario Sanz-Lopez, Erwan Kerrien, Marie-Odile Berger.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2014. TVCG 2014
Top ranked TVCG AR/VR paper 2014. Presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. Impact factor: 4.558
- Single View Augmentation of 3D Elastic Objects.
Nazim Haouchine, Jeremie Dequidt, Marie-Odile Berger and Stephane Cotin.
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2014 (Rank A+)
- Monocular 3D Reconstruction and Augmentation of Elastic Surfaces with Self-occlusion Handling.
Nazim Haouchine, Jeremie Dequidt, Marie-Odile Berger, Stephane Cotin.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2015. TVCG 2015
Top ranked TVCG AR/VR paper 2015. Presented at SIGGRAPH 2015. Impact factor: 4.558
- Surgical Augmented Reality with Topological Changes.
Christoph Paulus, Nazim Haouchine, David Cazier, Stephane Cotin.
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions MICCAI 2015.
★ Oral presentation. Rank A (acceptance rate ~5%)
- Surgery Training, Planning and Guidance Using the SOFA Framework
Hugo Talbot, Nazim Haouchine, Igor Peterlík, Jérémie Dequidt, Christian Duriez, Herve Delingette, Stéphane Cotin.
Eurographics 2015 (Rank A)
Dirk Bartz Eurographics Medical Prize (1st prize).
- Patient-specific Biomechanical Modeling for Guidance during Minimally-invasive Hepatic Surgery.
Rosalie Plantefève, Igor Peterlik, Nazim Haouchine, Stéphane Cotin.
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Springer Verlag ABME 2015 (Impact factor: 3.378)
