Meeting Agenda

Date:	July 16, 2015
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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3. Forthcoming

Date:	July 23, 2015	July 30, 2015	August 6, 2015	August 13, 2015
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1304 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Ryan Goldade	Craig Kaplan	Marta Kryven	Egor Larionov
Technical Presentation:	Vinicius Azavedo	Christopher Batty	Dustin Biser	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Yipeng Wang

Title : Introduction to Machine Learning for Computer Graphics Abstract: Computer Graphics is increasingly using techniques from Machine Learning. The trend is motivated by several factors, but the difficulties and expense of modelling is a major driving force. Here "modelling" is used very broadly to include models of reflection (learn the BRDF of a real material), animation (learn the motion of real objects), as well as three-dimensional models (learn to model complex things). Building around a few examples, we will explore the whys and hows of Machine Learning within Computer Graphics. The ideas are illustrated using examples drawn from previous SIGGRAPHs: help non-artists to draw, animate traffic flow from sensor data, and model moving trees from video.

5. Discussion Items

1. Lab meeting on July 30 in DC1304.
2. Time for lab meetings next term?
3. State of Linux machines.
4. Lab computing.

6. Action Items

7. Lab Events

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Friday, 17 July 2015, 10:00AM - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Lab), DC 2306C (AI Lab) [Newish]
    Han Zhao: -- Self-Adaptive Hierarchical Sentence Model
     
Friday, 17 July 2015, 2:00PM - Applied Mathematics , MC 6496
    Shaun Sawyer: -- Gain-Scheduled Control of a Quadcopter UAV
     
Friday, 17 July 2015, 3:30PM - Combinatorics and Optimization (Tutte Colloquium), MC 5501
    Gabriel Coutinho: -- Connections between complex lines and distance-regular graphs

Monday, 20 July 2015, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 2568 [Newish]
    Adam Roegiest: -- Impact of Surrogate Assessments on High-Recall Retrieval
     
Monday, 20 July 2015, 2:30PM - Computer Science (Information Retrieval Group), DC 2568 [Newish]
    Gaurav Baruah: -- Evaluating Streams of Evolving News Events
     
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 9:30AM - Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), DC 1331
    Adam Fourney: -- Web Search, Web Tutorials & Software Applications: Characterizing and Supporting the Coordinated Use of Online Resources for Performing Work in Feature-Rich Software
     
Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Bioinformatics Group), DC 2310
    Abhishek Singhi: -- Lyrics Matter: Using Lyrics to Solve Music Information Retrieval Tasks

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup