Date: Every Thursday
Time: starting at 12:30
Place: 4th floor kitchen and SmallTalk Room
Faraday Tower
Computer Science Department
Swansea University
SA2 8PP
Coordinator(s):
Robert S. Laramee and
Tony McLoughlin
If you have a talk you'd like to give or an event
you would like to take place in conjuction with the
Visible Lunch then please contact a coordinator!
Group Link:
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facebook
as well.
Poster:
Check out the new
Visible Lunch poster!
Feel free to hang it up.
Related Events:
VLunch, Cardiff, Cardiff School of Computer Science,
a Visible Lunch spin-off
Past Events:
Visual Computing Day, 2007
Visual Computing Day, 2009
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Announcement
The Visible Lunch event aims to bring together researchers
at Swansea University (and surroundings) with a common interest
in visual computing, i.e., visualization, computer graphics,
computer vision, and related topics.
This event encourages informal discussion, open exchange,
and personal interaction in order to foster both
research directions in visual computing and a sense of
local community.
Note that this is the only research oriented seminar in
the Computer Science Department targeted specifically at
students and staff alike.
In fact, the majority of the talks are given by Masters
and PhD students.
The Visible Lunch gives students the (unusual) opportunity
to practice their presentation skills.
Another unusual feature of the Visible Lunch are the post-talk
questions and discussions.
The question and discussion period following a presentation is not
constrained to the strict five or ten minutes imposed by typical
conferences, workshops, or other more formal seminars.
The post-presentation discussions at the Visible Lunch often last much
longer, e.g., an hour or more, and allow time for a true debate.
In fact, this is the only open, uncensored discussion forum
offered in the computer science department.
We also note that the presentation content is of very high
quality.
Six practice talks featured at the Visible
Lunch have already presented contributions that were chosen
as best papers (They are indicated in the program below.).
A seventh paper was shortlisted for best paper.
The Visual Computing Group Photo, July 2009
Link to more Visible Lunch Photos
The Visual Computing Group Photo, March 2007
Aims
Maybe you are a postgraduate student researching a topic
in visual computing and would like to discuss it with
your colleagues.
Maybe you are working on a problem and would like to find
out if anyone else has seen or worked on the same problem.
Maybe you have an idea for a new research direction and
would like to get someone else's opinion on it.
Maybe you have new results you'd like to show your
colleagues.
Perhaps you have a talk coming up and you'd like to
give it a practice run.
Or maybe you would just like to find out what other projects
colleagues are currently working on.
The goal of this event is to provide a regular, casual forum
for such discussions and meetings.
Topics for discussion include (but are not limited to):
visualization including scientific and information
visualization
computer graphics and computer vision
new (or old) research ideas
papers and other research literature
problem solving
research results
conferences and journals
dissertations and vivas
research proposals
presentations
special events
programming tools
Who Should Attend?
Although the meeting is targeted at researchers in the Visual and
Interactive Computing Group, post-graduates and staff,
the event is open to anyone.
For example, undergraduates who are thinking about
writing an MRes or PhD in visual computing may want to
attend in order to get an idea of what writing such a
degree is like.
A theoretical computer scientist might want to attend
in order to come up with a visual representation of
their idea(s).
There are certainly mathematicians doing visualization.
HCI researchers might discover one of the many human-centered
research topics in visual computing.
Indeed some of the world's most famous HCI researchers
attend the premier visualization conferences every year.
Why Lunch?
No one has the time to attend yet another seminar, lecture,
or similar event, however, every sensible, healthy person
finds the time to eat lunch.
Therefore the Visual Lunch event attempts to combine
the interests of: (1) eating, (2) research, and (3) time
management.
Please remember to bring your lunch with you.
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Special Visible Lunch Events
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| [84]
| Thurs 1 April 2010
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Dan R. Lipşa, Visualization of Foam Rheology,
Practice Talk
for the Visual Computing Gradauate School 2010,
Swansea University, Wales, UK, 6-9 April 2010
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| [83]
| Thurs 25 March 2010
|
David Chisnall, Object Planes,
Work-in-Progress Talk
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
|
| [82]
| Thurs 18 March 2010
|
Hui Fang, Title Forthcoming,
Work-in-Progress Talk
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
|
| [81]
| Thurs 11 March 2010
|
Nick Croft, Simulation of Green Energy Devices:
What Do We Want to See?,
Invited Talk
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
Dr. Nick Croft
is a guest speaker from the School of Engineering
at Swansea University
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| [80]
| Thurs 4 March 2010
|
Ben Daubney, Computer Vision: Getting Computers to
Understand the Visible World,
State-of-the-Art Report
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
|
| [79]
| Thurs 25 Feb 2010
|
Ed Grundy, Video Visualization for Snooker Skills Training,
forthcoming in EuroVis 2010,
Bordeaux, France, 8-11 June 2010
|
| [78]
| Thurs 18 Feb 2010
|
Matjez Bone, Multi-Colored Marching Squares and Cubes,
Work-in-Progress Report
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
|
| [77]
| Thurs 11 Feb 2010
|
Max Wilson, Studying and Encouraging More Exploratory
Forms of Search,
Practice Invited Talk
for the Computer Science Department, University
College London
Abstract: Not all forms of Information Seeking can be solved
nicely with one or more searches on Google. The study of
Exploratory Search aims to investigate scenarios where users may:
be in an unfamiliar information space, have complicated
requirements, need to learn a little on the way, and/or be
searching in multiple sessions over time (even a whole lifetime!)
This talk will cover two strands of research: on-going work
into how we can design and evaluate more exploratory search
interfaces, and the other aimed at developing our understanding
of these more exploratory scenarios through analysing a large
Twitter corpus.
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| [76]
| Thurs 4 Feb 2010
|
Robert S Laramee, Bob's Open-Source, Object-Oriented,
OpenGL Source Code,
Tutorial Talk
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University,
Wales, UK
|
| [75]
| Thurs 28 Jan 2010
|
Mark Jones, Distance Fields, An Introduction,
Tutorial Talk
for the Computer Science Department, Swansea University
|
| [74]
| Thurs 21 Jan 2010
|
Dan R. Lipşa, Dyanmic Chunking for Out of Core Volume
Visualization Applications, Conference Talk for
Advances in Visual Computing, Proceedings of the 5th
International Symposium (ISVC 2009), pages 117-128,
November 30-December 2, 2009. Las Vegas, NV, published in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS, Volume 5876, Springer
|
| [73]
| Thurs 14 Jan 2010
|
Tony McLoughlin, Software Demonstration of
VoReen.org, an open source volume rendering engine
which allows interactive visualization of volumetric data sets
with high flexibility when integrating new visualization
techniques. It is implemented as a multi-platform (Windows,
Linux, Mac) C++ library using OpenGL and GLSL for GPU-based
rendering, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.
|
| [72]
| Thurs 10 Dec '09
|
Mark Jones-Spatio-Temporal Analytics
and
Min Chen-Transfer Function Design
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part V,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
|
| [71]
| Thurs 3 Dec '09
|
Ben Daubney, Hui Fang, and Xianghua (Jason) Xie
Conference Report for
ICCV 2009, the 12th IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision,
Kyoto, Japan, 29 September-2 October 2009
Please see the link to the
IEEE ICCV 2009 Conference Web Site.
|
| [70]
| Thurs 19 Nov '09
|
Edward Grundy-Medical and Molecular Visualization and
Analysis and
Matjez Bone-Surface Descriptors
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part IV,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
|
| [69]
| Thurs 12 Nov '09
|
Farhan Mohammed-Evaluation Methods
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part III,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
|
| [68]
| Thurs 5 Nov '09
|
Matt Edmunds-Medical and Molecular Visualization and
Analysis (cancelled!)
and
Deyu Gai-BioInformatics Visualization
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part III,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
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| [67]
| Thurs 29 Oct '09
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Zhao Geng-Multidimensional Visualization
and
Zhenmin Peng-Visually Supported Analysis,
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part II,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
|
| [66]
| Thurs 22 Oct '09
|
Robert S Laramee-Graph Visualization and
Tony McLoughlin-Particle Systems and Flow Visualization
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Report:
Part I,
Atlantic City, NJ,
11-16 Oct 2009.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2009 Conference Program.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
Note: This is the first stage of multi-part Visible Lunch Event.
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| [66]
| Thurs 8 Oct '09
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Zhenmin Peng,
Mesh Driven Vector Field Clustering and Visualization,
Practice Talk for the Computer Science Department,
Swansea University, 8 Oct 2009
|
| [65]
| Thurs 1 Oct '09
|
Robert S Laramee,
Debugging Visualization: Guidelines for Eliminating Bugs
in Visualization Software, Practice Talk for
the ReVisE (Refactoring Visualization from Experience) Workshop,
in Atlantic City, NJ, (held in conjunction with
IEEE VisWeek 2009)
12 October 2009
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| [64]
| Thurs 24 Sep '09
|
Ravi P. Kammaje, Software Demonstration of
Investigating Ray Tracing Algorithms and Data
Structures in the Context of Visibility.
Ravi is going to blow the audiance away with a live
software demonstration of the application he wrote
for his PhD thesis.
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| [63]
| Thurs 17 Sep '09
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Ben Daubney,
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation using Sparse Motion
Features, Practice Talk
for
Themis 2009 - (IEEE International Workshop
on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image
Sequences)
- Held in conjunction with ICCV 2009, the IEEE
Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan,
3 October 2009
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| [62]
| Thurs 10 Sep 09
|
Farhan Mohamed-User Studies and Interaction,
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part VI,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
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| [61]
| Thurs 27 Aug 09
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Simon Robinson,
Sweep-Shake: Finding Digital Resources in Physical
Environments, Practice Talk
for
MobileHCI 2009, the 11th International Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services,
Bonn, Germany, September 15-18, 2009
(Recipient of the Best Paper Award)
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| [60]
| Thurs 20 Aug 09
|
Mark W Jones-Graph Visualization
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part V,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
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| [59]
| Thurs 6 Aug 09
|
Matthew Edumunds-Volume Rendering and Hardware Acceleration
and
Matjaz Bone-Biomedical Visualization
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part IV,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
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| [58]
| Thurs 30 July 09
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Zhao Geng-Scatter Plots and Parallel Coordinates
and
Professor Min Chen-Volume Rendering,
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part III,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
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| [57]
| Thurs 23 July 09
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Tony McLoughlin-Flow Visualization
and
Zhenmin Peng-Text Visualization,
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part II,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
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| [Excursion]
| Thurs 16 July 09
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Special Event: Visual Computing Away Day
Please see the link to the
Visual Computing Away Day web page.
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| [56]
| Thurs 9 July 09
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Professor Daniel Weiskopf, Texture-Based Vector Field
Visualization,
Invited Talk for the Department of Computer
Science at Swansea University.
Daniel is Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Stuttgart, Germany in the Visualization Research Center,
University of Stuttgart (VISUS) in the
Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS)
Historical Note: This is the first Visible Lunch
talk given by a professor from another university.
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| [55]
| Thurs 2 July 09
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Ed Grundy-Multidimensional Data
and
Robert S Laramee-Applications,
EuroVis 2009 Conference Report:
Part I,
Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009
Please see the link to the
EuroVis 2009 Conference Program.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
Note: This is the first stage of multi-part Visible Lunch Event.
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| [54]
| Thurs 25 June '09
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Tony McLoughlin,
Conference Report for Computer Graphics International
(CGI '09), May 26-29, 2009, Victoria, Canada
Zhenmin Peng,
Conference Report for Theory and Practice of Computer
Graphics (TPCG '09), 17-19 June 2009, Cardiff, UK
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| [53]
| Thurs 4 June '09
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Zhenmin Peng,
Higher Dimensional Vector Field Visualization: A Survey,
Practice Talk for Theory and Practice of Computer
Graphics (TPCG '09), 17-19 June 2009, Cardiff, UK
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| [52]
| Thurs 28 May '09
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Ed Grundy,
Visualisation of Sensor Data from Animal Movement,
Practice Talk for EuroVis 2009,
The Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE
VGTC Symposium on Visualization, Berlin, Germany,
10-12 June, 2009 (Recipient of the Best Paper Award)
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| [51]
| Thurs 21 May 09
|
Ed Grundy-GPU (Full Papers)
and
Matjaz Bone-Paper Session To Be Announced,
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Report:
Part III,
Munich, Germany,
31 March - 3 April 2009.
Please see the link to the
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Program.
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| [50]
| Thurs 14 May '09
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Tony McLoughlin, Easy Integral Surfaces: A Fast, Quad-based
Stream and Path Surface Algorithm,
Practice Talk for Computer Graphics International
(CGI '09), May 26-29, 2009, Victoria, Canada
|
| [49]
| Thurs 7 May 09
|
Professor Harold Thimbleby,
Enjoying and Getting Research Degrees Reliably,
Editorial Talk for
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
(
slides,
slides-extended
version
)
|
| [48]
| Thurs 30 April '09
|
Robert S Laramee-Some Interesting Education Papers
and
Zhenmin Peng-Fluids and Beyond (Full Papers),
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Report:
Part II,
Munich, Germany,
31 March - 3 April 2009.
Please see the link to the
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Program.
|
| [47]
| Thurs 16 April 09
|
Benjamin Spencer-Caustics and Scattering (Full Papers)
and
Tony McLoughlin-Rendering (Short Papers),
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Report:
Part I,
Munich, Germany,
31 March - 3 April 2009.
Please see the link to the
EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Conference Program.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
Note: This is the first stage of multi-part Visible Lunch Event.
|
| [46]
| Thurs 26 March '09
|
Professor Rory Wilson,
Ten Trendy Ways to Find Out About Your Cat's Night
Life Using Case Studies from Sharks, Condors, Penguins,
and Armadillos,
Tutorial Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
The speaker is currently Head of the Institute of Environmental
Sustainability (IES), a professor of Aquatic Biology and
post-graduate admission officer for biology.
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| [45]
| Thurs 19 March '09
|
Benjamin Spencer,
Into the Blue: Better Caustics through Photon Relaxation ,
Practice Talk
for EUROGRAPHICS 2009 (EG '09) ,
the annual conference
of the European Association for Computer Graphics,
30 March - 3 April 2009, Munich, Germany
(Shortlisted for Best Paper Award.)
|
| [44]
| Thurs 12 March '09
|
Robert S. Laramee,
How To Write a Visualization Research Paper: The Art and
Mechanics,
Practice Talk
for EUROGRAPHICS 2009 Education
Papers (EG '09),
the annual conference
of the European Association for Computer Graphics,
30 March - 3 April 2009, Munich, Germany
(Selected as one of the two best Education Papers)
|
| [43]
| Thurs 5 March '09
|
Parisa Eslambolchilar,
Encourage Me I Want to Be Green: Shape Physical Activity
Behaviour with Personal Mobile Displays ,
State-of-the-Art Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
|
| [42]
| Thurs 26 February '09
|
Professor Min Chen,
Visualization in Flatland,
Keynote Talk for
WSCG 2009 -the 17th International Conference on
Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2009,
2-5 February, 2009, Plzen, Czech Republic
|
| [41]
| Thurs 19 February '09
|
Robert S Laramee and Tony McLouglin,
Over Two Decades of Geometric Vector Field Visualization,
Practice Talk
for EUROGRAPHICS 2009, State of the Art Reports
(EG '09) ,
the annual conference
of the European Association for Computer Graphics,
30 March - 3 April 2009, Munich, Germany
|
| [40]
| Thurs 12 February '09
|
Emily Shepard,
Time for Energy Expenditure: Understanding the Underwater
Behaviour of the Imperial Cormorant,
Practice Talk for the
36th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group,
18-26 February, 2009, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
The speaker is from the Institute of Environmentantal
Sustainability at Swansea University.
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| [39]
| Thurs 5 February '09
|
Fernando Loizides,
Document Triage Data ,
Tutorial Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
|
| [38]
| Thurs 22 January '09
|
Matjaz Bone,
What is Ontology-Based Visualization? ,
Tutorial Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
|
| [37]
| Thurs 18 Dec 08
|
Ed Grundy,
Clustering and Visualization Methods for Scalar Data,
Tutorial Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
Abstract:
Ed teaches us what clustering methods he used in his
masters thesis, Detecting Patterns in Waveform Data Produced
by Tracking Devices, and how they work.
Zhenmin Peng,
Clustering of Vector Field Data,
Work-in-Progress Report
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
Abstract:
Peng presents the preliminary results (flash animations) of
a vector field clustering algorithm.
|
| [36]
| Thurs 11 Dec 08
|
Matjaz Bone-Medical Visualization I
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part VI in
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [35]
| Thurs 4 Dec 08
|
Lloyd Williams-Systems
and
Mark Jones-Volume Rendering and Modeling II,
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part V in
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [34]
| Thurs 27 Nov 08
|
Professor Min Chen-Volume Rendering and Modeling I
and
Ed Grundy-Visualization in the Physical Sciences,
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part IV in
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [33]
| Thurs 20 Nov 08
|
Zhenmin Peng-Multivariate and Multifield Visualization
and
Robert S. Laramee-Topology and Tensors,
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part III in
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [32]
| Thurs 13 Nov 08
|
Farhan Mohamed-Information Visualization
and
Darius Garnham-Perception,
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part II in
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [31]
| Thurs 6 Nov 08
|
Tony McLoughlin-Flow Visualization
and
Ravi P. Kammaje-Meshes and Surfaces,
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Report:
Part I,
Columbus, Ohio,
19-24 Oct 2008.
Please see the link to the
IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference Program.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
Note: This is the first stage of multi-part Visible Lunch Event.
|
| [30]
| Thurs 30 Oct 08
|
Benjamin Spencer,
Evenly-Spaced Streamlines for Surfaces: An Image-Based
Approach,
A research paper report
in
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), forthcoming
and
Zhenmin Peng,
VMV Conference Report
of the
The 13th International Fall Workshop on Vision,
Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2008,
8-10 October 2008,
Constance, Germany
|
| [29]
| Thurs 16 Oct 08
|
Rita Borgo,
Functional Streaming: Visualizing Data Through Functional
Pipelines
,
Invited talk from Leeds University
Abstract:
This talk introduces a new way of thinking about visualization
algorithms and systems. Functional
programs are concise, high level, problem oriented descriptions.
The lazy evaluation model underlying languages such as Haskell
supports a novel idiom for implementing visualization algorithms,
through demand driven streams.
Using Haskell, we have reconstructed several fundamental
visualization techniques, with encouraging results both in
terms of novel insight and performance.
(Historical Note: This was the first ever external speaker at
the Visible Lunch.)
|
| [28]
| Thurs 2 Oct 08
|
Temesghen Kahsai,
Testing a Jet Engine Starting System
Internship Talk for Rolls-Royce, Derby, England,
5 Aug 2008
|
| [27]
| Thurs 25 Sep 08
|
Zhenmin Peng,
Vector Glyphs for Surfaces:
A Fast and Simple Glyph Placement Algorithm
for Adaptive Resolution Meshes
Practice Talk for
The 13th International Fall Workshop on Vision,
Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2008,
8-10 October 2008,
Constance, Germany
|
| [26]
| Thurs 18 Sep 08
|
Xianghua (Jason) Xie,
Statistical Inference of Visual Primitives,
Tutorial Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
Abstract:
We will review three sets of important techniques in Computer
Vision to extract primitive entities, texton, epitome, and texem.
|
| [25]
| Thurs 11 Sep 08
|
George Buchanan,
Improving Placeholders in Digital Documents,
Conference Talk for the European Conference
on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark,
14-19 September, 2007
(Recipient of the Best Paper Award, again)
|
| [24]
| Thurs 28 August 08
|
Ed Grundy,
Detecting Patterns in Waveform Data Produced by
Tracking Devices,
Practice MRes Thesis Talk
as part of the MRes Degree in Visual Computing
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
|
| [23]
| Thurs 21 August 08
|
Simon Robinson,
Point-to-GeoBlog: Gestures and Sensors to Support User
Generated Content Creation, Practice Talk
for
MobileHCI 2008, the 10th International Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2-5 September 2008
|
| [22]
| Thurs 14 August 08
|
Mark New,
Independent Typing Rules for Basic Programming Constructs,
Colloquium Talk at the
24th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science
(BCTCS) 2008, Durham University, 7-10 April 2008
(Historical Note: The first ever theory talk at the Visible Lunch)
|
| [21]
| Thurs 7 August 08
|
Jonathan Harvey,
Starting Your Own Business: A Case Study-Practice and Experience
from Industry,
Industry Talk
for the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
(Historical Note: The first ever industry talk at the
Visible Lunch)
Abstract:
This presentation will overview of some of the ways that one can
set up a business, including the translation of ideas from an
academic context into a commercial/industrial environment.
The talk will cover some of the practical considerations, steps
and processes involved; drawing upon the speaker's own experience.
Speaker Bio: Jonathan studied Computer Science at Swansea
University (2002), then completed an MPhil (2005), and then
undertook a PhD in web-based technologies and database systems.
In late 2006, he formed the company Bay View Systems Ltd, which
has now been trading for almost two years.
|
| [20]
| Thurs 31 July 08
|
Ravi P. Kammaje,
Row Tracing using Hierarchical Occlusion Maps,
Practice Talk
for the
IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing,
Los Angeles, California, August 9-10, 2008
Abstract:
A new rendering method that ray traces an entire row of the image
at a time is introduced. This moves some of the ray tracing
computations into a simplified 1D domain and reduces the memory
requirements considerably.
Visibility determination is performed efficiently using Hierarchical
Occlusion Maps and provides faster renderings than packet ray
tracing in general and OpenGL for large scenes. In addition, the
algorithm shows near perfect scaling when multi-threaded and works
very well with kd-trees and octrees, as implementations
demonstrate. Finally, optimal rendering times are reached with
trees that are an order of magnitude smaller than those
required for regular ray tracing.
|
| [19]
| Thurs 24 July 08
|
Professor Harold Thimbleby,
Keeping People Alive with CS & HCI
Abstract:
(a) Connecting for Health (CfH) is spending tens of billions and
failing to get a working NHS - in the largest civilian computing
project in the world.
Yet, CfH are not fools - but they clearly don't know or don't
understand something. Might be CS &/or HCI.
(b) People are dying because programmers don't know CS or HCI.
(c) The problems have little to do with CS or HCI per se, but in
getting good CS & HCI into the right places.
(Historical note: The first talk at the Visible Lunch by a
permanent, non-visual computing staff member)
|
| [19]
| Thurs 10 July 08
|
Visible Lunch at the Beach.
We'll meet at the usual time and place and then head off to the
beach. Rain plans: massive Fussball!
|
| [18]
| Thurs 6 July 08
|
Darius Garnham-User Studies and User Interaction,
Ed Grundy-Parallel Coordinates, and
Professor Min Chen-Visualization for Neurology,
EuroVis 2008 Conference Report: Part V.
This event is a continuation of the presentations and
discussions from the EuroVis '08 Conference Report.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
|
| [17]
| Thurs 26 June 08
|
Mark W Jones-Meshes and Volumes,
Lyndsey Clarke-Applications in Life Sciences, and
Fernando Loizides-Visual Analytics,
EuroVis 2008 Conference Report: Part IV.
This event is a continuation of the presentations and
discussions from the EuroVis '08 Conference Report.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
(Historical Note: This was the first Visible Lunch with
a female speaker.)
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| Thurs 19 June 08
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Benjamin Spencer-Visualization Applications,
Farhan Mohamed-Software Visualization, and
Ravi P. Kammaje-Visualization Tools,
EuroVis 2008 Conference Report: Part III.
This event is a continuation of the presentations and
discussions from the EuroVis '08 Conference Report.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
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| Thurs 12 June 08
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Tony McLoughlin-Flow Advection and Geometry Processing,
Zhenmin Peng-Flow Feature Extraction, and
Robert S. Laramee-Multivariate Visualization,
EuroVis 2008 Conference Report: Part II.
This event is the second part in the multi-part
EuroVis '08 Conference Report.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
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| [14]
| Thurs 5 June 08
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Min Chen-Illustrative and Realistic Volume Rendering
and
Owen Gilson-Graph Visualization,
EuroVis 2008 Conference Report: Part I,
The Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE
VGTC Symposium on Visualization, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
26-28 May 2008.
Please see the link to the
Eurovis 2008 Conference Program.
Please see the
Conference Report Description
at the bottom of this page.
Note: This is the first stage of multi-part Visible Lunch Event.
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| [13]
| Thurs 29 May 08
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Darius Garnham,
Incidental Mobile Information and Large Public Displays,
Conference Talk for the
ACM Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI) 2008 Workshop
on Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone-Based Interaction with
Public Displays, 5-8 April 2008, Florence, Italy
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| [12]
| Thurs 22 May 08
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Lloyd Williams,
3D Graphics in Java: A Comparison of Two Popular
3D Graphics APIs (JOGL vs Java 3D),
Practice Talk (Presenting a Project Paper) for
CS_M27/CS_317: Programming and Graphics APIs/Computer
Graphics Laboratory
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| [11]
| Thurs 15 May 08
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Ed Grundy,
Spatial Data Structures for GIS Visualization,
Practice Talk (Presenting a Programming Project) for
CS_M27: Programming and Graphics APIs
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| [10]
| Thurs 8 May 08
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Benjamin Spencer,
Hierarchical Photon Mapping,
A research paper report
in
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics
(IEEE TVCG), forthcoming
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| [9]
| Thurs 1 May 08
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Fernando Loizides,
Investigating Document Triage on Paper and
Electronic Media,
Conference Talk for the European Conference
on Digital Libraries 2007 in Budapest, Hungary,
16-21 September, 2007
(Recipient of the Best Paper Award)
(Historical Note: This was the first ever catered Visible
Lunch. This was also the first Visible Lunch talk given
by an HCI specialist.)
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| [8]
| Thurs 24 April 08
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Owen Gilson,
From Web Data to Visualization via Ontology Mapping,
Practice Talk for EuroVis 2008,
The Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE
VGTC Symposium on Visualization, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
26-28 May, 2008
(Recipient of the Best Paper Award)
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| [7]
| Thurs 10 April 08
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Benjamin Mora,
Are 3D Displays the Logical Continuation of 3D Graphics?,
A research paper report in
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics
(IEEE TVCG), forthcoming
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| [6]
| Thurs 13 Mar 08
| The first Fussball tournament is launched.
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| [5]
| Thurs 6 March 08
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Ravi P. Kammaje,
A Study of Restricted BSP Trees for Ray Tracing,
Research Paper Talk from the
IEEE-
EUROGRAPHICS
Symposium on Interactive Ray-Tracing 2007
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| [4]
| Thurs 28 Feb 08
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Lloyd Williams,
TimeHistograms for Large, Time-Dependent Data,
Practice Talk (Presenting a Research Paper) for
CS_M37: Graphics Surveys and Research Methodology
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| [3]
| Thurs 21 Feb 08
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Robert S. Laramee,
Flow Visualization: The State-of-the-Art,
Practice Invited Talk for
the 19th Conference of Simulation and Visualization (SimVis)
2008, Magdeburg, Germany, 28-29 February 2008
(Historical Note: This was the first official Visible Lunch
talk.)
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| [2]
| Thurs 29 Nov 07
| The Fussball table arrives.
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| [1]
| Thurs 16 Aug 07
| The First Visible Lunch Event takes place.
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Conference Reports
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For a conference report, each speaker shortly presents
(3-5 minutes recommended)
a selection of papers
(3-5 papers recommended)
from a given conference.
Each paper talk discusses:
(1) what the paper is about i.e., what is the goal of the
research work,
(2) results or findings presented, and
(3) the strengths and weaknesses of the paper including the presenter's
own opinion.
If a supplementary video has been provided with the paper, presenters
can save themselves a lot of work by showing the video.
Videos usually give a concise and helpful summary of the paper.
Overall impressions of the conference are also discussed.
The idea behind the conference report is that those who did
not attend the conference can still benefit from those that
did.
Related papers are normally grouped together by sessions at
a conference. Hence, for a conference report, papers are usually
assigned and presented together based on sessions.
Each speaker, along with the title of the session which they are
presenting, is shown in the Visible Lunch special events and talks
listing.
Recommended talk preparation time is approximately two hours.
Most of the preparation time is for reading the papers.
Please let a Visible Lunch coordinator know if you have any
questions.
Also, if you are having trouble with a paper and would like
to discuss it briefly, you are welcome to come and discuss
it with a Visible Lunch coordinator.
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