Gerard Lacey
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Lacey has an international research track record using sensors and computers to embed intelligence into everyday devices thereby creating new types of human-machine interaction. He has 37 publications including journals, conferences, patents, book chapters, and is co-editor of one book. The majority of this research has been in the healthcare domain with technical contributions in Image Processing, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction. In 2000 Dr. Lacey founded Haptica Ltd, a company that develops and sells Augmented Reality surgical training products to hospitals and universities around the world. From 2000 to 2005 he was CEO and CTO of the company. In November 2005 he returned to TCD as a lecturer. He remains as a director and scientific advisor to Haptica. His main research area is sensor driven human-machine interaction. The best know output of this research has been a novel robotic walking frame for the elderly. This research won several best paper awards and was featured on Tomorrows World 1999 and was the subject of a New Scientist article 1999. His main research topics are Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Robotics and Decision Making in Uncertainty. In his academic carrier he has managed international EU research Projects (3), Enterprise Ireland Projects (2). In 1998-2000 he was leader of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Group which comprised Post Docs (3), PhD Students (5), MSc Students (7) and visiting professors. His has been a reviewer for Enterprise Ireland 1999-2002, on the scientific review panel for SIRS, IROS, IMVIP, EAAI, RESNA, and reviewed papers for IEEE Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and the International Journal of Robotics Research. He has been a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Field and Space Robotics Lab (1999) and the University of Edinburgh, Dept of AI (1995).
Research Interest
Augmented Reality; Computer Vision and Image Processing; Computer vision and robotics; Decision Making in Uncertainty; Human computer interactions; Imaging and Computer Vision; Medical Image Processing ; Multimedia; Robotics; Virtual Reality; Wireless Sensor Networks
Publications
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D.F. Llorca, F. Vilarino, Z. Zhou and G. Lacey, A multi-class SVM classifier ensemble for automatic hand washing quality assessment, British Machine Vision Conference, Warwick, September 2007, 2007, pp10 pages
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Rozenn Dahyot, Fernando Vilariño, and Gerard Lacey, Improving the Quality of Color Colonoscopy Videos, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing , Volume 2008, (Article ID 139429), 2008, p7 pages
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Gerard Lacey and Fernando Vilariño , TCD, A sytem and method for measuring quality in Colonoscopy , 2008
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Gerard Lacey and Diego Rodriguez-Losada, The Evolution of Guido, IEEE Robotics and Automation , Vol 15, (No 4), 2008, p75 - 83
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Fernando Vilariño, Stephan Ameling, Gerard Lacey, Anarta Ghosh, Stephen Patchett, Hugh Mulcahy, Eye tracking search patterns in expert and trainee colonoscopists: A novel method of assessing endoscopic competency?, Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2009, Chicago, USA, May 30 - June 4, 2009, pp1 - 2
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Mirko Arnold, Anarta Ghosh , Stephen Patchett, Hugh Mulcahy, Gerard Lacey, Indistinct Frame Detection in Colonoscopy Videos, 13th IMVIP conference, Dublin, 2009, pp47 - 52
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Fernando Vilarino and Gerard Lacey, QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN COLONOSCOPY New challenges through computer vision-based systems , 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, Porto, Portugal, January 2009, 2009, pp1 - 2
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Stefan Ameling, Stephan Wirth, Dietrich Paulus, Gerard Lacey, Fernando Vilarino, Texture-based Polyp Detection in Colonoscopy , BILDVERARBEITUNG FÃœR DIE MEDIZIN 2009, Heidelberg, 22. - 25. March 2009, 2009, pp1 - 2
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I. Parra, D Fernandez, M.A. Sotelo, M. Marrón, M. Gavilán, G. Lacey,, A vision-based system for automatic hand washing quality assessment, Machine Vision and Applications, 2, 2009
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Gerard Lacey and David Fernandez Llorca, TCD, A hand washing monitoring system, 2009, EP2015665
