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

• 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

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Jadrian

1. Incorporate committee's comments into my proposal by 2009-10-15
2. Make a list of papers to spawn from the proposal by 2009-10-15
3. Decide with dhl on the role of animal models in the proposal
4. Finish clustering code sufficient for an initial version of the backsolving system
5. Find or build implementations of a more sophisticated tractography technique (Q-ball or Gordon's multi-tensor)
6. Work with Ed Walsh, dhl, and wzhou to settle on some HARDI parameters
7. Take one HARDI scan by 2009-11-24
8. Get DifSim (the MCell-based UCSD diffusion simulator) installed and working here

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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. Deploy existing visualization tools by Oct 15 (in Labs and in CVS - Protein-version2, Clustering apps)
2. Migrate BrainApp functionality to the new framework by Nov 1 (help from Cagatay and Eni)
3. Test usefulness of the QT vis framework (on Cagatay); if useful deploy by Nov 1
4. Advance Immgen
   1. Write report for next year
   2. Daphne-data vis prototype by Nov 1
   3. Genome-google maps operation by Oct1
   4. Broad display operational
   5. Paper on analyzing and disseminating large visualizations?
5. Gather vis tools usage data
6. Proposal
   1. Gather, read and summarize cogsci and linked visualization literature
7. 2D interaction on stream-tubes study? Paper?
8. Successful Vis talk

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Trevor

1. Research comps!
2. Review and address EuroVis reviews for cell paper.
   1. Submit to PacVis?
3. Research comps work --> i3d submission.
4. Narrow long term focus.
5. Foster collaborations:
   1. Paul Kulesa
   2. Trey Crisco
   3. Sharon Swartz
6. Finish course requirements.

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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
• 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

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