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Group Meeting Schedule - Summer & Fall '08

All meetings are in TH S 307 (the lab). For Fall 2008, we will meet Fridays from noon to 1:00pm. If you like, you can bring a small brown bag lunch and eat quietly during the meeting. (Note: for Summer 2008, we met on Wednesdays)

May 30 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussions: (1) Darklights by A. Glassner from Graphics Gems III, (2) Faster Ray Tracing Using Scanline Rejection by T. Mo"ller from Graphics Gems V (Dr. Newman and Cuilan Wang, leaders)
June 4 12:00pm-1:00pm
Cuilan Wang: Introduction to Tomography
June 11 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussion: Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention by Fisher from IEEE T-VCG, Nov. 2007
June 18 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussion: Web Mash-ups and Patchwork Prototyping: User-driven Technological Innovation with Web 2.0 and Open Source Software by Floyd et al. from IEEE HICSS 2007 (Mehdi B., leader)
June 25 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussion: Learning 3-D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image by Saxena et al. from ICCV Workshop on 3D Rep. for Recog. 2007 (B. Wood, leader)
July 2 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussion: Near-Optimal Hashing Algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor in High Dimensions by Andoni and Indyk from CACM, Jan. 2008 (X. Zhang, leader)
July 9 12:00pm-1:00pm
Paper discussion: Partial surface and volume matching in three dimensions by Barequet and Sharir from IEEE PAMI 1997 (Chun Dong, leader)
July 16 12:00pm-01:00pm
Jake Lee: On Efficient Opacity Correction for Over-sampled Volume Ray Casting Visualization
July 23 12:00pm-01:00pm
Vasu Pasumarthi: Breakthrough Technologies in Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard
July 30 12:00pm-01:00pm
Cuilan Wang: On Accuracy of Marching Isosurfacing Methods (VG'08)
August 22 12:00pm-01:00pm
Fall'08 Kick-Off. Paper discussion: Accelerating Volume Raycasting using Occlusion Frustums by J. Mensmann et al. from VG'08 (Cuilan Wang, leader)
August 29 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Simulating Knitted Cloth at the Yarn Level by J. M. Kaldor et al. from SIGGRAPH'08 (Elaine Acree, leader)
Sep 5 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Procedural Urban Modeling in Practice by Watson et al. from May 2008 IEEE CG&A (Dr. Newman, leader)
Sep 12 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Legible Simplification of Textured Urban Models by Chang et al. from IEEE CG&A special issue (May 2008) (Dr. Newman, leader)
Sep 19 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Harmonic Colormaps for Volume Visualization by L. Wang and K. Mueller from VG'08 (Manil, leader)
Sep 26 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Color Harmonization by Cohen-Or et al. from SIGGRAPH '06 (Sussan: leader)
Oct 1(Wed) 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Geometric formulation of classical color harmony by Moon et al. from Journal of the Optical Society of America
Oct 10 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Layers for Effective Volume Rendering by Raman et al. from VG '08
Oct 17 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: 1. Bringing VR and Spatial 3D Interaction to the Masses through Video Games by J. LaViola, IEEE CG&A; 2. The Need for Verifiable Visualization by R. Kirby and C. Silva, IEEE CG&A
Oct 24 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: On the Registrability of two CT volumes by Fiorin et al. from ISBI '08 (Chun Dong, leader)
Oct 31 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by J. Dean and S. Ghemawat from Comunications of the ACM (Jan 2008) (Sreenivas, leader)
Nov 7 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: Size Functions for Comparing 3D Models by S. Biasotti et al. from Pattern Recognition (Xiang Zhang, leader)
Nov 14 12:00pm-01:00pm
Ram Kandimalla: The Tao Framework
Sussan Einakian: Evaluating Color Harmony's Role in Map Labeling
Nov 21 12:00pm-01:00pm
Paper discussion: New Techniques for Efficient Sliding Thin-Slab Volume Visualization by Turlington and Higgins from IEEE T-MI
Nov 28 --
Thanksgiving Break (no meeting)
Dec 5 12:00pm-01:00pm
Last meeting of Semester


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