Plans and Goals

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 Monday.

• 2:00 - asf
• 2:10 - jadrian
• 2:20 - radu
• 2:30 - Brad
• 2:40 - dtr
• 2:50 - trevor
• 3:00 - wzhou
• 3:10 - Eni
• 3:20 - cad
• 3:30 - Steve

Current Plans and Goals (Fall '09)

Andy

1. mri/wrist
   1. tools
      1. registration, classification, distance-field calculation, bone proximity calc.
      2. graphical visualization/verification?
   2. modeling?
2. $G (nightly tests, architecture, outside test-case = ADVISER)
3. future funding candidates
   1. volume data visualization/analysis
   2. flow visualization w/ leopold/GK
   3. other?

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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.

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Çağatay

1. Incorporate feedback from the committee into the proposal.
2. Start working realizing the finalized proposal.
3. Submit the histogram embedding work to ISMRM.
4. Submit the surface deformation work to SIGGRAPH.

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David

1. improve group infrastructure: sw, data, dissemination, tools (with help from bb, asf)
2. wrist progress; dynamics; proposal submission?
3. harvard stuff moving; read Janeway?
4. four dissertation proposals in progress
5. support PhD progress
6. refine 5-year funding/sabbatical plan – outline some proposals
7. minimize professional service
8. successful Dagstuhl
9. vis2011 sited, early committee defined

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Eni

• work some more on the metrics & submit a paper
• work with Andy on cartilage growing & wrist simulation tools
• think of a problem I might want to work on once I start grad school

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Jadrian

1. Assemble a thesis committee and submit my proposal to them by 2009-06-15
2. Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-07-15
3. Work with Win and dhl to figure out the b matrices for the new acquisition protocol
4. Get Mark Bastin's scans processed by 2009-06-30
5. Make a list of papers to spawn from aims A and B of the proposal
6. Finish clustering code and implement a couple other curve similarity measures for comparison
7. Find or build implementations of some more sophisticated tractography techniques
8. Work with Steve's group to get a HARDI acquisition
9. Start working on aim I of the proposal (diffusion simulation in a detailed microstructure model)

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Jian

1. Papers / work:
   1. Finish the camber measurement paper ( first draft of the results section - by May 28)
   2. Finish the presence paper (accepted, by May 30)
   3. Finish the book chapter (accepted, by May 30)
   4. Finish the visualization paper whatever the result will be (by July 31st)
   5. Finish the display paper and submit it to TVCG (July 31st)
   6. Prepare the VR paper with a student at TJU (due in September, lead)
   7. Work on the vision paper (with the student + faculty at TJU) (invited)
2. Career development:
   1. write up career goals and learning goals for the next 90 days and the next five years.
   2. Direct one student to work on the architecture project (for the VR paper)
   3. Direct one student to work on 3D interaction (get him to USM)
   4. inform others I will be moving
   5. improve time management / learn roles faculty to play
   6. Plan ahead for the new post (campus visit, lab space, facilities, collaborators)
3. Travels:
   1. (maybe) ISBI (http://www.biomedicalimaging.org)
   2. SIGGRAPH (August 3-6)
   3. Campus visit (the end of June or the beginning of July)
   4. Leave the last week in July
4. Learning:
   1. Shape
   2. continue to learn visualization + hci issues
   3. X3D
5. Code:
   1. Work with Brad to get the measurement code accessible / reusable by other people
   2. Work with Brad to get other code bases tested before I leave

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Radu

1. Proposal draft and committee by June 15
2. Revise Draft by July 15
3. Multiple views framework done by June 15
4. Multiple views framework deployed for Immgen July 1
5. Protein vis into multiple views framework by July 15
6. Comparative analysis of clustering ready for evaluation by September 1
7. Plan for proposal paper 6 (annex 1) by September 1
8. Cogsci literature review done by September 1

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Trevor

1. Distortion correction paper.
   1. Finalize content and evaluation.
   2. Submit to TMI? Consider where this will have the most impact.
2. Work toward Vis submission on interaction histories, collaborative scientific visualization.
   1. Explore possible applications.
   2. Develop evaluation criterion.
   3. Consider software model as a contribution.
3. Research comps proposal. (Interaction histories?)
   1. Draft complete by mid-February. (by February I mean April)
   2. Practice talk at SciVis meeting February 24th.
4. Evaluate eye-tracking systems available at Brown.
   1. Develop webcam-based eye-tracking?
5. Continue to explore and evaluate intern opportunities.
6. Get through classes.
   1. CS224, CS295-J, Reading and Research.
7. Improve time management.
8. Improve writing.
   1. Explore opportunities for short submissions.

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Wenjin

• Finalize 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 < 0.4 micrometer
  • estimation with clinically achievable acquisitions
  • build and evaluate 4-compartment model with water exchange vs. 2-compartment
• Finalize optimal imaging parameters on Brown 3T scanner
• submit to ISMRM in Nov or MICCAI in March
• prepare for MRM/TMI journal submission

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

• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08