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== Current Schedule ==
== Current Schedule ==
Meetings are on Tuesdays.
Meetings are on Wednesdays.  The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.


* 1:50 - jadrian
== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '19) ==
* 2:00 - wenjin
* 2:10 - eni
* 2:20 - jadrian
* 2:30 - bb
* 2:40 - dtr
* 2:50 - trevor
* 3:00 - cad
* 3:10 - steve
* 3:20 - radu


== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '10) ==
=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===


=== [[User:Brad Berg|Brad]] ===


Projects
=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===


* Support the ongoing projects including collaborators.  Active projects are wrist, brain, adviser, and protein.
* Text Resolution Experiment
** Run within-subject experiment on 20 participants
** Submit to Vis'19 - End of March


* Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
* IEEE VR
** Presentation in Osaka - End of March


* Contribute to the design and development of the new cave.  This includes integrating g3d, vrpn and hosting vrg3d.  Once the software is running simplify the configuration and provide a quick start path for student projects.
* VT Study resubmit
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript


* Set up a distribution of diffusion imaging data.
* DinoTracker
** Add interactive UI
** Complete refactoring
** Release as open-source


Infrastructure
* Thesis


* Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===


* Continue setting up external software for students to use. Current imported packages are:  blitz, cg, g3d, qt, camino, dtk, vrpn, glut, and sdl.


* Finish extending make files for local installs and kits for source and binary distributions.


* Continue to make improvements to the make files so they are easier to use.
=== [[User: Fumeng Yang|Fumeng]] ===


* Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3.


* Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.
== Current Plans and Goals (Summer '19) ==


=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===




* Finish integrating the new version of the Nag libraries.
=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===


* Text Resolution Experiment
** Submit to TVCG


Knowledge
* VT Study resubmit
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript


* Learn more about the cave; particularly vrg3d software development.
* DinoTracker
** Finish Release Version


* Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.
* Thesis
** Complete by End of July


* Learn how to manage a project using Source Forge.
* Graduate


----
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===
=== David ===
#get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed
#wrist proposal submission (check with Trey?)
#support 5 phd students' + trevor's progress
#write a plan for HCI modeling work
#minimize professional service
 
----
=== [[Jadrian]] ===
 
* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal original 2009-06-22.pdf‎|Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22]]
* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal rev2 2009-10-15.pdf|Proposal second revision, prepared 2009-10-15]]
 
# Further refine the thesis proposal in response to new information
# Create a list of papers to spawn from the proposal
# Present the proposal formally to the department
# Implement a macrostructure model and derive it from diffusion data (by clustering or otherwise, with possible manual adjustment)
# Create a 3D surface rendering of a macrostructure model instance
# Continue working with Ed Walsh, et al. to settle on some HARDI parameters
# Take at least one HARDI scan, even if parameters have not been finalized
# Get preliminary histological data of some kind, either by doing it in-house, working with collaborators, or outsourcing
# Continue working with DifSim/MCell developers to get source access and a working install here
# Derive a minimal set of microstructure measurements from histological data
# Make a plan for a future summer industry or academic internship
# Make a plan for completing the outside minor requirements
 
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# Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-10-15
#* Revision complete 2009-10-15
# Make a list of papers to spawn from the proposal by 2009-10-15
#* {{red|Incomplete}}
# Decide with dhl on the role of animal models in the proposal
#* Histological "wetwork" will play an important role in the research; significant planning and collaboration-building took place this semester
# Finish clustering code sufficient for an initial version of the backsolving system
#* {{red|Incomplete}}
# Find or build implementations of a more sophisticated tractography technique (Q-ball or Gordon's multi-tensor)
#* DTK &amp; Trackvis installed and working with current data as of 2009-11-04
# Work with Ed Walsh, dhl, and wzhou to settle on some HARDI parameters
#* {{red|Scan parameters have not been decided}} but ongoing work with Steve's group is teaching us all more about parameter tradeoffs
# Take one HARDI scan by 2009-11-24
#* {{red|No new scan was acquired this fall}}, pending a decision about scan parameters
# Get DifSim (the MCell-based UCSD diffusion simulator) installed and working here
#* {{red|Not installed}} due to ongoing license issues, but I'm in communication with the developers and confident that it'll work out
-->
 
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=== Radu ===
#deploy my current work (as application or google maps) to: Christophe, Hardy, Art, and Neuroscience
#gather structured feedback from the above mentioned labs
#write "Related Work" section of dissertation and updated thesis proposal.
#submit to Vis:
#*one paper on large map-like visualizations to InfoVis (100% submission probability),
#*one on comparing clusterings to VAST (50% submission probability)
#*one on 2D brain visualizations with Cagatay to Vis (25%).
#finalize my course requirements
 
----
 
=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
# Staying on track for candidacy
## Complete programming comp (late January)
## Complete research comp proposal and presentation to committee (mid April)
## Do well in courses
# Research goals
## Explore current research in HCI related to creativity, and user interaction modeling
## Identify significant, well-scoped research project in this area for the research comp proposal
## Develop research skills, including paper reading/analysis and learning to communicate effectively
# Other academic goals
## Work on collaboration skills (finding and communicating with colleagues in or outside of CS)
## Work on time management and project planning
## Learn what working with DHL is like, his expectations, etc.
## Plan for the summer
----
 
=== [[User:Trevor O'Brien|Trevor]] ===
 
# I3D poster & demo
## Revised abstract: January 29
## Conference: February 19th (poster complete by February 17)
# Vis Papers - Iterate often
## Abstract: March 21
## Full paper: March 31
### Gene visualization paper
### Confocal microscopy paper
# Genome Research paper
# Grad TA for CS224
# Paper with Paul Kulesa
## Define goals contributions from Vis perspective
# Look for themes between work with Paul, Trey, and maybe Ben
## Coordinate spaces? (Tensor invariances?)
## Morphometrics? (Non-dimensionalization)
## Other feature detection?
# Organize code, papers, tools, other resources to be backed up, handed off


----


=== Wenjin ===
# Submit to MICCAI (March 11th) + good collaboration with Matt
# Prepare histology data - do homework about the right path to choose, acquire, and prepare the tissue
# Derive and test optimal double-PGSE imaging on Brown 3T scanner
# Propose by 10/15
# Submit MRM/TMI journal paper


== Current Plans and Goals (Fall '09) ==
=== [[User: Fumeng Yang|Fumeng]] ===


=== Çağatay ===
# Incorporate feedback from the committee into the[[:Image:Çağatay's_thesis_ideas.pdf | proposal]]
# Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
# Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
# Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.
----


=== [[User:Andy Forsberg|Andy]] ===
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# mri/wrist
## tools
### registration, classification, distance-field calculation, bone proximity calc.
### graphical visualization/verification?
## modeling?
# $G (nightly tests, architecture, outside test-case = ADVISER)
# future funding candidates
## volume data visualization/analysis
## flow visualization w/ leopold/GK
## other?


----
----
=== [[User:Brad Berg|Brad]] ===
Projects
* Support the ongoing projects including collaborators.  Active projects are wrist, brainapp, adviser, and protein.
* Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
* Contribute to the design of the new cave.
Infrastructure
* Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
* Continue setting up external software for students to use. Current imported packages are:  blitz, cg, g3d, qt, and xerces
* Extend make files for local installs and kits for source and binary distributions.
* Continue to make improvements to the make files so they are easier to use and to provide Windows support.
* Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3.
* Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.
* Integrate the new version of the Nag libraries.
Knowledge
* Learn more about the cave; particularly software development.
* Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.
----
=== Çağatay ===
# Incorporate feedback from the committee into the[[:Image:Çağatay's_thesis_ideas.pdf | proposal]]
# Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
# Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
# Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.
----
=== David ===
#figure out software and data dissemination and get implemented with bb's help [some progress, more next semester]
#wrist proposal submission [not sure where this went with Trey]
#harvard stuff moving; read Janeway? [good meeting in Boston]
#support 6 phd students' progress [all proposals done!]
#write a plan for HCI modeling work (draft by 10/23, rev by 11/20) [not enough structure]
#minimize professional service [less successful than hoped]
#vis2011 sited, early committee defined after Vis by 10/16 [contract signed, delaying committee]
----
=== Eni ===
*submit tract integrity vs. cognitive tests abstract and histograms abstract to ismrm
*possibly write a paper on the wrist comparison study (old/new subjects)
*while working on different wrist problems, think of a problem I might want to focus on
*do well in the courses I'm taking
----
=== [[User:Jadrian Miles|Jadrian]] ===
[[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal original 2009-06-22.pdf‎|Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22]]
# Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-10-15
#* Revision complete 2009-10-15
# Make a list of papers to spawn from the proposal by 2009-10-15
#* {{red|Incomplete}}
# Decide with dhl on the role of animal models in the proposal
#* Histological "wetwork" will play an important role in the research; significant planning and collaboration-building took place this semester
# Finish clustering code sufficient for an initial version of the backsolving system
#* {{red|Incomplete}}
# Find or build implementations of a more sophisticated tractography technique (Q-ball or Gordon's multi-tensor)
#* DTK &amp; Trackvis installed and working with current data as of 2009-11-04
# Work with Ed Walsh, dhl, and wzhou to settle on some HARDI parameters
#* {{red|Scan parameters have not been decided}} but ongoing work with Steve's group is teaching us all more about parameter tradeoffs
# Take one HARDI scan by 2009-11-24
#* {{red|No new scan was acquired this fall}}, pending a decision about scan parameters
# Get DifSim (the MCell-based UCSD diffusion simulator) installed and working here
#* {{red|Not installed}} due to ongoing license issues, but I'm in communication with the developers and confident that it'll work out
----
=== Radu ===
# Deploy existing visualization tools by Oct 15 (in Labs and in CVS - Protein-version2, Clustering apps)
# Migrate BrainApp functionality to the new framework by Nov 1 (help from Cagatay and Eni)
# Test usefulness of the QT vis framework (on Cagatay); if useful deploy by Nov 1
# Advance Immgen
## Write report for next year
## Daphne-data vis prototype by Nov 1
## Genome-google maps operation by Oct1
## Broad display operational
## Paper on analyzing and disseminating large visualizations?
# Gather vis tools usage data
# Proposal
## Gather, read and summarize cogsci and linked visualization literature
# 2D interaction on stream-tubes study? Paper?
# Successful Vis talk
# Proposal is [http://cs.brown.edu/people/jr/proposal_jr.pdf here]
----
=== Trevor ===
#  Research comps!
#  Review and address EuroVis reviews for cell paper. 
## Submit to PacVis?
#  Research comps work --> i3d submission.
#  Narrow long term focus.
#  Foster collaborations:
## Paul Kulesa
## Trey Crisco
## Sharon Swartz
#  Finish course requirements.
----
=== Wenjin ===
* Finalize [http://cs.brown.edu/~wzhou/proposal_wzhou.pdf Proposal]: incorporate feedback from committee in NIH format
* Survive NEUR 1650
* Analytical model tested on simulation data to accomplish 1-2 of the following (based on current limitations):
** estimate axon parameter for unknown fiber direction
** recover small axon radii < 4 micrometer
** estimation with clinically achievable acquisitions
** build and evaluate 4-compartment model with water exchange vs. 2-compartment
* Derive and test optimal imaging parameters on Brown 3T scanner
* submit to ISMRM (Nov. 10th) or MICCAI in March
* prepare for MRM/TMI journal submission
=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
Course work
* Explore courses that may be relevant to research interests, or may help me think more outside-the-box
* Use project classes to explore interests in graphics, vis, hci
Research
* Draft R&R plan for spring semester by 11/15
* Start thinking about research comp ideas and proposal by 11/15
* Contribute to the VRL however I can
* Search through past ideas/projects worth investigating more by 10/1
** Online raytracing with voronoi diagrams?
** Interfaces that learn?
Personal
* Get adjusted to Brown, Providence, graduate school
** Work on time management, organization
* Pass programming comp in January


== Past Plans and Goals ==
== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Spring 2018|Spring '18]]
* [[/Fall 2017|Fall '17]]
* [[/Summer 2016|Summer '16]]
* [[/Spring 2016|Spring '16]]
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Spring 2015|Spring '15]]
* [[/Fall 2014|Fall '14]]
* [[/Spring-Summer 2014|Spring-Summer '14]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2013|Summer-Fall '13]]
* [[/Spring 2013|Spring '13]]
* [[/Fall 2012|Fall '12]]
* [[/Summer 2012|Summer '12]]
* [[/Spring 2012|Spring '12]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2011|Summer-Fall '11]]
* [[/Spring 2011|Spring '11]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2010|Summer-Fall '10]]
* [[/Spring 2010|Spring '10]]
* [[/Fall 2009|Fall '09]]
* [[/Summer 2009|Summer '09]]
* [[/Summer 2009|Summer '09]]
* [[/Spring 2009|Spring '09]]
* [[/Spring 2009|Spring '09]]

Latest revision as of 19:53, 14 May 2019

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.

Current Schedule

Meetings are on Wednesdays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

Current Plans and Goals (Spring '19)

David

Johannes

  • Text Resolution Experiment
    • Run within-subject experiment on 20 participants
    • Submit to Vis'19 - End of March
  • IEEE VR
    • Presentation in Osaka - End of March
  • VT Study resubmit
    • find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
  • DinoTracker
    • Add interactive UI
    • Complete refactoring
    • Release as open-source
  • Thesis

Bruce

Fumeng

Current Plans and Goals (Summer '19)

David

Johannes

  • Text Resolution Experiment
    • Submit to TVCG
  • VT Study resubmit
    • find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
  • DinoTracker
    • Finish Release Version
  • Thesis
    • Complete by End of July
  • Graduate

Bruce

Fumeng


Past Plans and Goals