Meeting Agenda

Date:	June 2, 2011
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Edgar- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Volunteers?
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	June 9	June 16	June 23
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Edgar Bering	Eugene Green	Tiffany Inglis	Cr(aig Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Xinling Chen	Bill	Elodie Fourquet	Edgar Bering

4. Technical Presentation

Zainab AlMeraj	Title : Towards ground truth in geometric textures Abstract: Two-dimensional geometric texture synthesis is the geometric analogue of the field of raster-based texture synthesis. An absence of conventional evaluation procedures in recent synthesis attempts demands an inquiry into the visual significance of synthesized results. The goal of this work is to emphasize the importance of visual preferences in the process of deciding geometric texture similarity. To this end, our research provides a firm perceptual foundation from which future geometric researchers can develop and subsequently assess their algorithm's success.

Zainab AlMeraj

Title : Towards ground truth in geometric textures
Abstract:
Two-dimensional geometric texture synthesis is the geometric analogue of the field of raster-based texture synthesis. An absence of conventional evaluation procedures in recent synthesis attempts demands an inquiry into the visual significance of synthesized results. The goal of this work is to emphasize the importance of visual preferences in the process of deciding geometric texture similarity. To this end, our research provides a firm perceptual foundation from which future geometric researchers can develop and subsequently assess their algorithm's success.

5. Discussion Items

Network stuff.
Philippe

6. Action Items

Poster update: "no update is good update" (inspired from "no news is good news") Actually from Cherry via email

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

GD/SPM11

Upcoming Deadlines

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Scientific Computation Group PhD Seminar
Iterative Methods for Solution of the Singular Control Formulation of a 
GMWB Pricing Problem,
Yiqing Huang, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton
School of Comp.  Sci., Univ. Waterloo
4 p.m.; DC 1331

Friday, June 3, 2011
Artificial Intelligence Seminar
``3D Pose Tracking of Walker Users' Lower Limb with a Structured-Light 
Camera on a Moving Platform''
Richard Hu, David R. Cheriton
School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
11:30 a.m. (DC 2306C AI Lab)

2011 Jun 07, 15:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Dr. Bruno Averbeck, NIH/NIMH, Bethesda, USA
Action selection and action value in frontal-striatal circuits

2011 Jun 08, 14:30 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar
Umar Farooq Minhas, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
A Bayesian Approach to Online Performance Modeling for Database Appliances using Gaussian Models

2011 Jun 10, 11:30 - Artificial Intelligence Lab Seminar
Pascal Poupart, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Closing the Gap: Improved Bounds on Optimal POMDP Solutions

Thursday, June 16, 2011
        Distinguished Lectures Series
        Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University
        4:30 p.m.; DC 1302

Also see other Math and CS postings.