MEETING-DATE:March 31, 2016
MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1331
MEETING-TIME:11:30
MEETING-CHAIR:Omar Zarifi
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COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:None (Good Friday)
COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Andrew
COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers?
FORTH-DATE1:April 7, 2016
FORTH-DATE2:April 14, 2016
FORTH-DATE3:April 21, 2016
FORTH-DATE4:April 28, 2016
FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1331 11:30
FORTH-CHAIR1:Dan Vogel
FORTH-CHAIR2:Christopher Batty
FORTH-CHAIR3:Bill Cowan
FORTH-CHAIR4:Ryan Goldade
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FORTH-TP1:Omar Zarifi
FORTH-TP2:Christopher Batty
FORTH-TP3:Dan Vogel
FORTH-TP4:Bill Cowan
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TPNAME:Andrew Tinits
TPTITLE:The Structural Similarity Index
TPABSTRACT:The Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index is a method for measuring the similarity of two images.  It can be viewed as a quality measure of one of the images, provided the other image is regarded as of perfect quality.  SSIM is designed to improve on traditional methods such as peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and mean squared error (MSE), which have proven to be inconsistent with human visual perception.  The first version of SSIM, called the Universal Quality Index (UQI), or Wang-Bovik index, was developed by Zhou Wang (now at the University of Waterloo) and Al Bovik in 2001.  It was modified into the current version of SSIM in a 2004 paper entitled "Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity”.  The 2004 SSIM paper has been cited more than 10,000 times, making it among the highest cited papers in the image processing field.  It was accorded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2009, and the inventors of SSIM were each accorded an individual Primetime Engineering Emmy Award in 2015.
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SEMINARS:<DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160231-1530.20765">Thursday, 31 March 2016</A>, 3:30PM - Applied Mathematics  , MC 5479 <DD> Manuele Santoprete: -- <EM> Canonoid and Poissonoid Transformations, Symmetries and bi-Hamiltonian structures </EM><BR> <BR>  <DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160301-1430.5523">Friday, 1 April 2016</A>, 2:30PM - Computer Science  (<em>Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group</em>), DC 1304 <DD> Seda Gurses: -- <EM> PET Sematary: Privacy's return from the dead and the rise of Privacy Engineering </EM><BR> <BR><DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160304-1030.17738">Monday, 4 April 2016</A>, 10:30AM - Computer Science  , DC 1304 <DD> Dr. Florian Kerschbaum: -- <EM> Secure Cloud Databases </EM><BR> <BR>   <DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160305-1300.2399">Tuesday, 5 April 2016</A>, 1:00PM - Computer Science  (<em>ISS4E</em>), DC 1331  <DD> Alimohammad Rabbani: -- <EM> Practical Systems for Personal Thermal Comfort </EM><BR> <BR> <DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160307-1000.1898">Thursday, 7 April 2016</A>, 10:00AM - Computer Science  (<em>Software Engineering Research Group</em>), DC 1304<DD> Pavel Valov: -- <EM> Transferring Performance Prediction Models </EM><BR> <BR> <DT><A HREF="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~wnotice/notice_prgms/wreg/list_full.pl?20160307-1430.10800">Thursday, 7 April 2016</A>, 2:30PM - Computer Science  (<em>Computer Graphics Research Group</em>), DC 2310  <DD> Tyler Nowicki: -- <EM> A heuristic approach for computing the frame-to-frame spacing of features in animation </EM><BR> <BR>