Plans and Goals/Summer 2016

On this page the members of the VRL record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which dhl will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

Past Plans and Goals (Summer '16)

Connor

Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.

Dissertation

• By 29 July: Init dissertation github repo that contains a compilable TeX document, concatenating all previous papers
• By 8 August: send DHL an updated dissertation skeleton with chapter names and contributions
• By end of summer: complete first draft of dissertation through present completed work

Color

• By 22 July: Complete Colorgorical web app load balancing + last remaining bug fixes
• By 22 July: submit travel funding to the graduate school
• By 29 July: Toggle the Github repo for Colorgorical to public
• By 1 August: submit camera-ready to Precision Conference

Genomics Case Study

• By 5 August: e-mail David a revised TVCG manuscript wrt VAST reviewer comments
• By end of summer: submit revised manuscript to TVCG

BLADE

• By 29 July: Complete BLADE interaction log mining user study
• By 5 August: e-mail David and Jeff the complete study results
• By 12 August: email relevant committee members the new MAGI feature to implement/evaluate based on BLADE interaction log study results
• By 12 August: send skeleton of eventual paper to David and Jeff
• By 26 August: Complete (1) related work, (2) BLADE interaction log mining user study results + discussion
• By end of summer: demo completed new feature to relevant committee members

Job hunting

• Update personal website with new publication + job-seeking-geared information
• Update resume _and_ C.V.
• Compile list of companies to apply to in LA and elsewhere

Hua

• ThoughtFlow submission to VIS
  • Jan. 22: First round user feedback collected and design improvement plan finalized
  • Feb.25: Design improvements implemented based on first round user feedback
    • Paper thumbnails and citation pattern vis prototyped (Feb.15)
    • Proposal keyword selection implemented (Feb.22)
    • Citation pattern backend implemented (Feb.22)
    • Citation pattern vis and paper thumbnails design refined (Feb.29)
    • Get feedback from Steven S
  • March 7: Second round user feedback collected
  • March 21: abstract due
  • March 31: paper submission
• Flyingsessions submission to VIS
  • March 21: abstract due
  • March 31: paper submission
• ThoughtFlow post-VIS work
  • Interface redesign
    • Write a plan on how it ties into interaction modeling work (Apr.8)
    • Sketch out the design for literature exploration view (Apr.15)
    • Implement literature exploration view
  • Interaction modeling
• Dissertation Writing
  • Draft abstract and introduction

Ryan

• Grants
  • Renewals
    • SMART2 - July 5?
    • SA/AIDS - Sept 14
  • Career dev
    • NIH: F32, K99/R00, etc?
• Papers
  • Tractography eval
    • multi vs single
    • bundle selection mechanisms
  • Diffusion model eval
    • relate parameters of more complex models to tensors
    • atlasing with multiple diffusion models
  • Collabs
    • Bipolar imaging with Dan
    • Something with Ani?
    • Ongoing work with RP group
• Training of incoming phd students
  • Test suite and shared repo of brain tools
  • Clean interface for novice users

David (for sabbatical)

• yurt
  • color calibrated within a few JND's by end of June
  • seams calibrated within a few mm's by end of June
  • application(s) (re)submitted for some fidelity-based research
  • application(s) submitted for some collaboration-based research, perhaps with Gatesy/Francois/Josh/Johannes
  • wiki "how to" for creating a yurt app, perhaps w/Johannes, before cs237 for sure!
  • scientific VR software tools review document by end of summer, from developer to non-programming user
    • maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
  • paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of summer
• VT
  • seam experiment
  • submit TTTS manuscript
• orthopedics
  • tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
    • get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
  • maybe pursue diffusion imaging in joints
• diffusion MRI
  • two renewal grants with Rob Paul and Ryan over summer and fall
    • Sept 14, SA/AIDS
    • sooner, SMART/Aging
  • Dickstein paper and maybe proposal
  • tractography comparison paper with Ryan during summer
• keep all advisees moving along appropriately
  • prepare for incoming triplet: brains, hands, yurt

Wesley

• CAVE/YURT
  • Complete or nearly complete user study with Johannes
  • Help out with Demos when needed
  • Add new applications for use in YURT

• Fitts' Law
  • Work on paper with HCI seminar group

• Third Person Perspective
  • Make plans for future of 3PP project or something derivative

• Hospital
  • Discuss potential projects with Derek

Johannes

• Cave/Yurt
  • Complete user study with Wesley
  • Design next experiment for VT project
  • Work on VR volume visualization (3D Visualizer/CaveVOX/...)
  • Get more concrete collaboration with students of Robbert Creton or Kristi Wharton
  • Help out with Demos when needed
  • Explore use of VTK in VRG3D

• CS137
  • Set up clean development branch for CavePainting
  • Get acquainted with the sourcecode
  • Fix some bugs if possible

• Fitts' Law
  • Work on paper with HCI seminar group

• Thesis Project
  • Restart discussions with Derek and Kristi
  • Explore collaborations for genome folding visualizations
  • by December: Create Thesis proposal draft

Bruce

• Funding
  • Raise funding to support Visiting Scientist position for 2016
  • Submit proposals to STAC, NSF ITEST, and ONR by end of 2015
  • Create ten-page white paper for Jan 31, 2016 to send to other funding organizations

• Cave/Yurt
  • Axial Seamount application:
    • Implement Animation controls by Dec 31, 2015
    • Implement Grab and Manipulate interaction by Jan 30, 2016
  • Create Plan for 2016 work by Jan 30, 2016 (promote here):
    • Continuous overall contribution: Useful Temporal Interaction GUIs
    • Prioritize other COVE (http://cove.ocean.washington.edu) features integration
    • Pursue Python interpreter integration unless other Yurt methods pan out
    • Anticipate STAC/ITEST programming needs for Yurt
    • Continue to pursue possible student participation

• CS 137
  • Continue to attend and revisit notes from UW INDE 543
  • CG&A Art on Graphics column to layout by February 15, 2016

• Distributed Cognition
  • Create updated mind map (with bibliography) by Dec 31, 2015
  • Create d-cog metric and test plan to support VIS/VAST paper by Jan 15, 2015
  • VIS/VAST paper abstract ready by March deadline

• Personal Development
  • Continuous: Improve research process effectiveness including a better parallel writing process
  • Continuous: Improve conciseness in e-mail and research-related writing
  • Continuous: Improve at sketching ideas

Josh

• Research Comps
  • Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
  • Continue work on implementation
  • Communicate better with Steve

• Summer Project
  • Determine what to work on as continuing from VT work
  • Do said work (To be expanded on soon)

• General Yurt
  • Continue to give demos as needed
  • Continue to improve knowledge of working in/with the Yurt

Wallace

• Finish experiment and write IEEEVR paper

• Finish VR volume renderer
  • last changes: added another kernel for gpu pre processing, copying one PBO to another in the GPU. Simple kernel (just remove part of the dataset)
  • Issues: Interaction pass takes a long time on CPU
  • Options: add spatial structure, perform interaction on GPU
  • Other improvements: 1) reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage 2) remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, 3) change to splatting 4) refactor code

• Reimplement Volume Cracker like interaction
  • Implement on VR
  • Develop hardware

• Finish new interaction technique
  • Finish design
  • Implement software
  • Implement technique on VR