2017 / IEEE ISMAR — Best Paper Award
SonifEye
Sonification of visual information using physical modeling sound synthesis: an earlier research lineage connected to SoniXense’s scientific foundations.
Research image: Roodaki et al. · SonifEye, Fig. 3Co-founder profile / CSO / Co-Founder
Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Medical XR, Robotics & Surgical Intelligence
An internationally recognized pioneer in computer-assisted medical procedures and medical augmented reality.
01 / Foundational contribution
Medical XR & Surgical Intelligence
Decades of research connecting imaging, navigation and computer-assisted medical procedures with new ways to support clinicians.
02 / Biography
Nassir Navab is Professor of Computer Aided Medical Procedures at TUM. His research group develops technologies linking medicine and computer science to improve medical interventions, with work spanning augmented reality, imaging, surgical navigation and intelligent systems.
He completed his doctorate at INRIA / Paris XI, followed by postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Laboratory. Before joining TUM as a full professor in 2003, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton.
His long research trajectory in computer-assisted intervention and medical XR provides a clinical and computational foundation for the auditory interaction research behind SoniXense.
03 / Selected awards & recognition
HundredsScientific publications
04 / Selected highlights
Computer-assisted medicine
TUM chair connecting medical procedures and augmented reality
Scientific leadership
MICCAI Society board member from 2006; editorial service for IEEE TMI, Medical Image Analysis and Medical Physics
Research trajectory
INRIA / Paris XI · MIT Media Laboratory · Siemens Corporate Research · TUM
05 / Work & contribution
Medical augmented reality
Research in imaging and navigation for medical procedures
CAMP research group
Computer-assisted medical procedures and augmented reality at TUM