Program May 14th, 2012

Part 1: State-of-the-art and current market overview

8:30-8:45 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab, CAMP

8:45 - 9:45 Optical tracking
Konrad Zürl, CEO Advanced Realtime Tracking GmbH
Potential of optical tracking, limitations and solutions.

9:45 - 10:45 Optical and magnetic tracking
Manfred Schmid, CEO NDI Europe GmbH
Optical vs. electro-magnetic tracking – what is the future?

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 Inertial- and ultrasonic tracking
Ahmad Ahmadi, CAMP
Wide area tracking with inertial and ultrasonic sensors.

11:30- 12:00 RFID tracking
Thomas Jell, ATOS GmbH
RFID for identification and tracking.

12:00 - 12:30 Kinect / depth cameras
Tobias Blum, CAMP
Kinect and other depth cameras and their applications.

12:30 - 13:00 Fiberoptical tracking
Philipp Matthies, CAMP
New fiberoptical sensor technologies allow determination of the shape and position of a fiber by measuring its curvature.

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

Part 2: Interactive hands-on sessions

14:30 - 18:00 Practical applications
parallel hands-on sessions

Optical tracking, ART
ARTTRACK3 system

Magnetic and optical tracking, NDI
NDI Polaris and Aurora

Inertial and ultrasonic tracking, EST
Wireless InertiaCube3 and IS-900 Systeme

RFID, ATOS GmbH
Simulation / demonstration

Magic Mirror, CAMP
Augmented Reality system to visualize anatomy on your own body.

RFID, amedo Smart Tracking Solutions
Real-time RFID locations systems