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
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

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 (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
Readings for next class

9/16/99

NSF KDI call for proposals
3D Free-Form Models for Geometric Recovery and Applications to Archaeology, Cooper, Joukowsky, Kimia, Laidlaw, Mumford, KDI proposal
NSF reviews of proposal. (paper)
"Research issues in vector and tensor field visualization," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 14(2): 76-79
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

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.
Request for Proposals

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.
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)
Deliver by noon: title and participants on your proposal. (3:00)

9/28/99

NSF CAREER award guidelines
Interrante proposal
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''

11/04/99

``Evaluating Stereo and Motion Cues for Visualizing Information Nets in Three Dimensions'', Ware, TOG 15(2), 1996.

``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.

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.

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.

11/16/99

``Ray Tracing Volume Densities,'' James T. Kajiya and Brian P. Von Herzen, SIGGRAPH '84, 165-174.

``Volume Rendering,'' Robert A. Drebin and Loren Carpenter and Pat Hanrahan, SIGGRAPH '88, 65-74.

``Display of Surfaces From Volume Data,'' Marc Levoy, CG\&A 8(3), 1988, 29-37.

11/18/99

"Vestibular Cues and Virtual Environments", Harris et al, Proc. of IEEE VRAIS '98.

``Marching Cubes: A High Resolution 3D Surface Construction Algorithm,'' William E. Lorensen and Harvey E. Cline, SIGGRAPH '87, 163-169.

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.

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.

``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.

``Visualizing 3D Flow,'' Victoria Interrante and Chester Grosch, CG\&A 18(4), 1998.

12/07/99

``Visualizing second-order tensor fields with hyperstream lines,'' Thierry Delmarcelle and Lambertus Hesselink, CG\&A 13(4), 1993.

``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.

``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.

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