Meeting Agenda

Date:	September 15, 2016
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	10:30
Chair:	Andrew Tinits

1. Acceptance of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

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

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 22, 2016	September 29, 2016	October 6, 2016	October 13, 2016
Location:	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30	DC 1331 10:30
Chair:	Omar Zarifi	Christopher Batty	JC Chang	Bill Cowan
Technical Presentation:	Dan Vogel	Omar Zarifi	Christopher Batty	JC Chang

4. Technical Presentation

Andrew Tinits	Title : Adaptive Polynomial Rendering Abstract: I will be presenting the above paper from SIGGRAPH 2016, which claims to contain "a new adaptive rendering method to improve the performance of Monte Carlo ray tracing, by reducing noise in rendered images while preserving high-frequency edges. The method approximates an image with polynomial functions and minimizes reconstruction error by robustly estimating an optimal order of each polynomial function."

Andrew Tinits

Title : Adaptive Polynomial Rendering
Abstract:
I will be presenting the above paper from SIGGRAPH 2016, which claims to contain "a new adaptive rendering method to improve the performance of Monte Carlo ray tracing, by reducing noise in rendered images while preserving high-frequency edges. The method approximates an image with polynomial functions and minimizes reconstruction error by robustly estimating an optimal order of each polynomial function."

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

For the purposes of CGL scheduling, Ryan and Yipeng should be considered unavailable/inactive during S16 (internships).

7. Lab Events

Let's consider planning a group trip to CTRL-V, possibly in conjunction with the HCI lab.

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 15 September 2016, 2:30PM - Computer Science (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Group), DC 1302: Valerie Steeves: -- What Hello Barbie Can Tell Us About Behavioural Targeting
Friday, 16 September 2016, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Computer Science), DC 1302: Pascal Poupart: -- Leveraging Data Science to Directly Learn Tractable Models for Probabilistic Inference and Decision Making
Friday, 16 September 2016, 3:45PM - Computer Science (Computer Science), DC 1302: Michael Godfrey: -- Does your mother know you're here? Understanding software artifact provenance
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 10:30AM - Computer Science (Computer Graphics Research Group), DC 2310: Boris Kravchenko: -- Balancing Fidelity and Performance in Iridal Light Transport Simulations Aimed at Interactive Applications
Thursday, 22 September 2016, 12:00PM - Computer Science (Scientific Computation Group), DC 2310: Amir Memartoluie: -- Computational Methods in Finance Related to Distributions with Known Marginals
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 3:30PM - Computer Science (Computer Science), DC 1302: Gail Murphy: -- Human-Centric Software Development Tools

Also see other Math and CS postings.