CS295-5 Assignments
David Laidlaw
Brown University
Fall 1999
Assignments for each class. Note that some handins are due by noon
the day of class to allow for review before class. Time estimates for
each item are in ()'s. Please let us know if they are out of line.
Please also respect the grant proposals you will be reading. They are
not published documents and should not be circulated outside of
class. Please make sure that you return copies of those documents
when you are finished with them for class.
9/9/99
E-mail by noon: personal background
NSF Grant
Proposal Guide (1995), NSF
- (text version is easiest to navigate)
- Skim: whole thing
- Read: I.B, II.D.2-6, II.D.8-11, III(intro), III.A, III.C-D,
VII.G (0:30)
Computer Graphics Tools for Understanding Tensor-Valued Volume Data: A
Painting Metaphor, Laidlaw (paper)
``Visually Representing Multi-valued Scientific Data Using Concepts
from Oil Painting,'' with David Kremers, Eric T. Ahrens, Matthew
J. Avalos, SIGGRAPH '98 Visual Proceedings (Sketch #249), August,
1998.
``Visualizing Multivalued Data from 2D Incompressible Flows Using
Concepts from Painting,'' R. Michael Kirby, H. Marmanis, D. Laidlaw,
Visualization '99 Proceedings, October 1999.
Readings for next class
- Skim so we can go over
definitions or topics that you don't understand. (0:20)
9/14/99
Whitaker pre-proposal guide, Whitaker Foundation. Check out other
grant programs, if you're interested. Remember, this is a
pre-proposal, and so will be much less detailed than a corresponding
proposal. The reading also does not include a c.v., the career goals
of the PI, or information on facilities, so ignore evaluations
dependent on those items.
Whitaker preproposal, Ahrens
- Read: (0:25)
- E-mail by noon: own review.
Follow Whitaker criteria from above (0:35)
(0:10)
``Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Images of the Mouse Spinal Cord,''
Laidlaw, Ahrens, Kremers, Avalos, Readhead, Jacobs, Visualization '98
Proceedings, October 1998.
``MR Microscopy of Transgenic Mice that Spontaneously Acquire
Experimental Allergic
Encephalomyelitis,'' Ahrens, Laidlaw,
Readhead, Brosnan, Fraser, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine,40(1), July
1998. (paper)
Visualization open problems, Hibbard
- Read and consider when thinking about topics (0:20)
Readings for next class
- Skim so we can go over
definitions or topics that you don't understand. (0:20)
9/16/99
NSF KDI call for
proposals
- Read (0:30)
- Remember that the same NSF guidelines are in effect -- the KDI
information is on top of that.
3D Free-Form Models
for Geometric Recovery and Applications to Archaeology, Cooper,
Joukowsky, Kimia, Laidlaw, Mumford, KDI proposal
NSF reviews of proposal. (paper)
- Read (0:15)
- Add any discussion questions in your review above. (0:20)
"Research issues in vector and tensor field visualization," IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications, 14(2): 76-79
- Read (0:20)
- E-mail by noon: review (0:20)
- Consider while thinking about project topics.
E-mail by noon: list of topics. A sentence or two about each of at
least 5 topics you might be interested in pursuing for your
project. (2:00)
Readings for next class
- Skim so we can go over
definitions or topics that you don't understand. (0:20)
9/21/99
Research Issues in Scientific Visualization (CG&A 14(2) again), intro
(pp. 61-63), Volume Graphics (pp. 63-67), Perception and User
Interfaces (pp. 67-69), one more section of your choice (pp. 70-76,
80-85).
List of research project ideas suggested by various faculty.
- Read and consider for your project (0:30)
Request for Proposals
- Read (0:20)
- Evaluate your project ideas given the project proposal criteria
(0:40)
- Evaluate the project ideas of the person following you on the
grade list and e-mail your evaluation to them (0:40)
- Modify and augment your project list based on your own evaluation
and feedback and put together your research team. Note that project
titles and teams are due 9/23. Use the faces
page to help find folks with complementary interests. (1:00)
9/23/99
NIH guide to proposals -- read the interesting and relevant
parts.
Johnson proposal (paper). This proposal is 10 years old, so the work
is not current. It does show an excellent example of a successful
non-clinical NIH grant proposal. Non-clinical work is often quite
difficult to get funded by NIH.
- Skim: whole thing (0:20)
- Read: four sections starting with Specific Aims (1:20)
- Deliver by noon: your review (0:40).
partial list of resulting papers
R.S. MacLeod, C.R. Johnson, and M.A. Matheson. Visualization of
bioelectric fields. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,
pp. 10-12, July 1993. (paper)
- Read (0:20)
- Add discussion questions/topics to grant review (0:20)
Deliver by noon: title and participants on your proposal. (3:00)
9/28/99
NSF CAREER award
guidelines
Interrante proposal
- Read (1:20)
- Deliver by noon: your review.
- Read reviews: augment your grant review discussion questions.
Conveying the 3D Shape of Smoothly Curving Transparent Surfaces via
Texture, Interrante, Fuchs, Pizer.
Continue to work on your proposals and prepare for class
presentations. We'll talk about presentations in class on Tuesday.
9/30/99
No readings for this class. Continue to work on your proposals and
prepare for class presentations.
If possible, attend Felice Frankel's CS colloquium talk at 4pm.
10/5/99
Proposals due by noon. Hand in to the assignments directory in PDF
format. Follow instructions in RFP.
Please bring a paper copy of your proposal to class for the writing
fellow. Follow the guidelines handed out the second class. In
particular, the draft should be double space.
Review proposals. See the proposal
review assignments. Bring review notes/comments/questions to class
for discussion. Each reviewer will be called on after the relevant
presentation.
10/7/99
Review proposals. Bring review notes to class for discussion. Each
reviewer will be called on after the relevant presentation.
Schedule Writing Fellow meeting.
10/12/99
Review proposals. Bring review notes to class for discussion. Each
reviewer will be called on after the relevant presentation.
Hand in (to assignments directory) all proposal reviews by end of day
and e-mail or deliver to the proposal author.
10/14/99
Revise draft proposals. Due 10/19.
Meet with writing fellow
to discuss comments on your proposal.
10/19/99
Finish revising draft proposals. Be sure to consider 1) reading
fellow input, 2) written critiques from fellow students, 3) comments
from professor, and 4) suggestions made during your presentation.
Hand in final proposals to asgns directory.
10/21/99
Review the same three proposals that you reviewed drafts of. In
addition, choose 2 more proposals and review them as well. Hand in,
by noon, all five written reviews -- cut, paste, and fill in the online review form. Name the review
pi_by_you.txt (e.g., LaViola's review of Laidlaw's proposal would be
"laidlaw_by_laviola.txt"). Bring hardcopy of your reviews to class.
You are the primary reviewer for a proposal if your name is first on
the reviewer list. For the proposal you are primary on, bring printed
copies of all reviews to class. Tabulate the average overall score
for the proposal and be prepared to provide it.
10/26/99
Bring reviews from last class.
By noon: hand in 3 top choices for papers to present in class. Choose
from the list of suggestions. You may add
additional papers not on
the suggested list, but please be sure that 3 choices are from the
list. You will be responsible for presenting 1 of your choices in
half of one of the remaining class periods. Scheduling will be
announced in class.
10/28/99
NO CLASS!
11/02/99
{\em Visual Explanations}, Tufte, chapter 4,
``The Smallest Effective Difference''
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Beard will present.
11/04/99
``Evaluating Stereo and Motion Cues for Visualizing
Information Nets in Three Dimensions'', Ware, TOG 15(2), 1996.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Walsky will present.
``Comparing Depth From Motion With Depth From Binocular
Disparity,'' Durgin et al., Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Human Perception and Performance, 21(3), 1995, 679-699.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Huttson will present.
11/09/99
``Multiresolution Sampling Procedure for Analysis and Synthesis of Texture
Images'', De Bonet, Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series (ACM SIGGRAPH),
pp. 361-368, 1997.
Christopher Healey (1998) "Building Perceptual Textures to Visualize
Multidimensional Datasets", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '98, pp.
111-118.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Reitsma will present.
11/11/99
Each PI should be prepared to describe progress on
their project relative to the plan in the proposal. Focus on
accomplishments -- bring pictures, describe preliminary or partial
results. Mention problems and proposed solutions. We'll have 5-10
minutes for each proposal, including feedback from the class, so be
concise.
Colin Ware and William Knight (1995) "Using Visual Texture
for Information Display", ACM Transactions on Graphics, 14(1): 3-20.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Reiter will present.
11/16/99
``Ray Tracing Volume Densities,'' James T. Kajiya and Brian
P. Von Herzen, SIGGRAPH '84, 165-174.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Pramod will present.
``Volume Rendering,''
Robert A. Drebin and Loren Carpenter and Pat Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH '88,
65-74.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Acevedo will present.
``Display of Surfaces From Volume Data,'' Marc Levoy, CG\&A
8(3), 1988, 29-37.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Seguin will present.
11/18/99
"Vestibular Cues and Virtual Environments",
Harris et al, Proc. of IEEE VRAIS '98.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- LaViola will present.
``Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface
Construction Algorithm,'' William E. Lorensen and Harvey
E. Cline,
SIGGRAPH '87, 163-169.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Majzner will present.
Attend Vicki Interrante's talk right after class.
11/23/99
Once again, each PI should be prepared to describe progress on
their project relative to the plan in the proposal. Focus on
accomplishments -- bring pictures, describe preliminary or partial
results. Mention problems and proposed solutions. We'll have 10-15
minutes for each proposal this time.
``Cone Trees: Animated 3D Visualization of Hierarchical
Information,'' CHI '91, 189-194.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- White will present.
11/25/99
Don't eat for two days so that you have plenty of room for
Thanksgiving dinner :-).
11/30/99
``Imaging Vector Fields Using Line Integral
Convolution,'' Brian Cabral and Leith (Casey) Leedom, SIGGRAPH
'93.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Prabhat will present.
``Image-Guided Streamline Placement,'' Greg Turk and David Banks,
SIGGRAPH 96
12/02/99
``Visualizing vector field topology in fluid flows,'' James
L. Helman and Lambertus Hesselink, CG\&A, 11(3), 1991.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Moscovich will present.
``Visualizing 3D Flow,'' Victoria Interrante and Chester
Grosch, CG\&A 18(4), 1998.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Keefe will present.
12/07/99
``Visualizing second-order tensor fields with
hyperstream lines,'' Thierry Delmarcelle and Lambertus
Hesselink, CG\&A 13(4), 1993.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Zhang will present.
``Eigenimage Filtering in MR Imaging,'' Joe P. Windham and
Mahmoud A. Abd-Allah and David A. Reimann and Jerry W. Froelich and
Allan M. Haggar, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 12(1), 1988,
1-9.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Marai will present.
``Partial-Volume Bayesian Classification of Material Mixtures
in MR Volume Data using Voxel Histograms,'' David H. Laidlaw and
Kurt W. Fleischer and Alan H. Barr, IEEE Transactions on Medical
Imaging 17(1), 1998, 74-86.
- Read.
- Deliver by noon: your
review.
- Han will present.
Read three final abstracts of your choice from the
assignments/abstracts directory. Turn in, by noon, your comments for
the authors. Comments should be designed to help the abstract author
improve their abstract and presentation. Think about how the
abstracts could be changed to make you say "wow, what an interesting
idea/result/picture/etc."
12/09/99
We'll build some taxonomies of visualization in class. Look back over
the course and
think about what you would like taxonomies of -- methods, data,
problems, venues, etc. -- and what you would put under each category.
Hand in by noon your draft taxonomies.
Hand in by classtime your 1-page double-column abstract for inclusion
in the class proceedings.
asgns/onepage/example.tex
gives an example of a tex file that produces a
reasonable one-page abstract
. Please put your abstract in this same directory in pdf format.
12/13/99
Prepare final presentations and demos. Each
presentation will be 10 minutes, with a few additional minutes for
questions.
Copyright 1999 David H. Laidlaw