Meeting Agenda

Date:	May 14, 2007
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Craig Kaplan

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Nobody (thanks!)
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	May 21, 2007	June 4, 2007	June 11, 2007	June 18, 2007
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Ed Lank	Andrew Lauritzen	Vladimir Levin	Yi Lin
Technical Presentation:	Gabriel Esteves	Craig Kaplan	Ed Lank	Andrew Lauritzen

4. Technical Presentation

Elodie Fourquet	Title : An experiment on billboard rotation Abstract: In realistic art, multiple perspectives in a single image are not exceptional deviations, but are common. Renaissance artists often used a collage of carefully rendered object-by-object perspectives, the non-unity of which is not noticed by most viewers. Imitating the cartoon-based compositional practices of Renaissance artists with the added advantage of three dimensional manipulation, we are investigating how an image can contain rotated billboards that approximate object rotation, treating billboards as flexible modelling primitives. An experiment measures how perceptible are distortions from billboard rotation and identifies key object features.

Elodie Fourquet

Title : An experiment on billboard rotation

Abstract:
In realistic art, multiple perspectives in a single image are not exceptional deviations, but are common. Renaissance artists often used a collage of carefully rendered object-by-object perspectives, the non-unity of which is not noticed by most viewers. Imitating the cartoon-based compositional practices of Renaissance artists with the added advantage of three dimensional manipulation, we are investigating how an image can contain rotated billboards that approximate object rotation, treating billboards as flexible modelling primitives. An experiment measures how perceptible are distortions from billboard rotation and identifies key object features.

5. Discussion Items

Transportation to GI
Next week's meeting
New (?) time slot for lab meeting

6. Action Items

June 29th lab open house

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

# 2007 May 16, 10:30 � Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar
Abram Hindle, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Release Pattern Discovery via Partitioning: Methodology and Case Study

# 2007 May 16, 13:30 � Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Bala Ravikumar, Computer Science Department, Sonoma State University
Two applications of Benford Distribution - in Formal Languages and Combinatorial Game Theory

# 2007 May 16, 15:30 � Scientific Computation Group PhD Seminar
Simon Clift, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Numerical Solution of Two Factor, Jump Diffusion Models for Option Valuation (Part II): Stochastic Volatility with Jumps

Also see other Math and CS postings.