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Weekly Group Meetings

April 20, 2007

Reports:

• alex/andrew: demoed xvid app w/1 camera
• andrew: porting to sage is next
• karen: osg shader example won't work on lab machines
• alex/karen: glsl sample code won't work on lab 620s, but on windows
• leo: getting 500mbit/s w/UDT; contact venkat at evl because he got 9 gbit out of 10gbit network: installed svn server
• philip: helped daniel w/calit2 loader plugin; worked w/sendhil on pdbseq display
• daniel: got calit2 plugin working; will set default to real size
• vinh: has put superbrowser URLs in config file; using gtkhtml
• michael: working on socket communication

Action items:

• need more chairs -- done
• send wiki instructions and request project summaries -- done
• osg and covise updated, stereo not working yet: fix -- done

Demos next week: alex, philip

April 27, 2007

Reports:

• karen: stereo query in osg doesn't work
• philip/chih: posters for siggraph due today
• leo: prism gets max 2gbit/s to jpeg server: work with qian to fix
• alex: demoed 2 video windows in sage; next is bayer conversion shader, then support for 3-4 streams
• andrew: working on changing bitrate for multiple cameras
• vinh: next week image map will be ready

Demos next week: daniel (complete 1st floor), michael: socket communication

Action items:

• buy 1-2 more pcs for the lab w/linux from Rincon funds -- not going to happen, no funds remaining
• put 4th camera in lab -- done

May 3, 2007

Action item:

• Send back siliconimaging, couldn't get video to show up - silicon imaging's demo software reported bad frames for every frame, were able to connect to it using SDK, but weren't able to pull frames from it -- no funds left, investigate warranty situation

Demos next week: daniel and michael

May 11, 2007

Reports:

• philip: simage not accessible in coin3d; added marker for pdbsequencedisplay
• leo: first work with bplayer
• vinh: fixed bug by rewriting rendering routine
• karen: creating two shaders for depth person looks at, and process other images; fixed problem with texture getting used in opencover
• alex: fixed bug in tile library: now rendering both hd images

Demos next week: vinh, andrew

Action items:

• check for gfx card in both boxes, one needs nvidia -- done
• daniel needs occlusion culling code -- done
• wiki pages missing for: philip -- done

May 18, 2007

• power outage saturday 7-10am, all systems get powered down by 7pm friday

Reports:

• Karen: one shader working; goal for next week: change focal depth by turning dial
• Philip: met w/Sendhil about PDBSequenceDisplay; needs to meet w/Sendhil again to move on; helped TungJu get Wanda ball to work; image plugin: add xray/visible light data set 2.5D
• Daniel: split building in layers: outside w/o bear, cleanroom area, new media arts wing; todo: coin/simage fix w/philip
• Vinh: fixed segfaults, problem: unsynchronized pages when clicking on links
• Alex: fixed tile rendering, showed demo w/andrew on tiled wall
• Leo: got UDT to stream into bplayer, hopes to have demo ready by wednesday night

Demos next week: karen, leo

Action items:

• move vista pc to camera table -- done
• install kvm on camera table -- done
• move two new dells to open spots on tables -- done
• wiki pages missing for: leo, vinh -- done

May 25, 2007

Projects:

• Vinh: webbrowser: testing on tiled display wall, working on multi-window browsing
• Michael: working on integrating time and date into protocol, writing test receiver
• Daniel: will work on culling, working on loading layers separately
• Andrew/Alex: added benchmarking to camera encoding: xvid encoding is bottleneck; next: documentation, meeting w/javier and raj
• Philip: meets w/sendhil about seq display fri noon; implementing zoom w/screwdriver function; generalize joystick implementation in covise

Action items:

• meet w/javier and alex/andrew to discuss Javier's camera access solution - done

Demos next week: jurgen (Geofusion)

June 1, 2007 (Quarter Week 9)

Projects:

• Leo: file corruption problem on jpeg2kserver has persisted w/Reiser FS; deadlock w/UDT in bplayer app
• Daniel: working on culling, simage has not been fixed yet
• Karen: has setNodeMask problem: can't make node invisible and intersectable
• Alex/Andrew: tried COM object method for Silicon Imaging cameras but need older driver; will install on one pc
• Philip: working on image plugin's new interaction
• Vinh: completed webbrowser plugin modifications for varrier, test successful

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

Demos next week: Philip (new image interaction)

June 8, 2007 (Quarter Week 10, last week of classes)

Projects:

• Leo: fixed deadlock problem with bplayer streaming, can now playback bplayer
• Michael: had busy week w/meetings with Swartz center, will try to have log file recording done by next friday
• Philip: PDBSequencedisplay works now with PDBPlugin, starting implementing UI changes
• Tung-Ju: started working on web browser based on activex
• Karen: moved temporary shader code into drawimplementation, works but needs to fix some bugs
• Alex, Andrew, Vinh: no update, were busy with final class projects

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

Demos next week: Vinh, Karen

June 15, 2007 (Quarter Week 11, finals week)

Not attending: Philip

News:

• project changes: Leo at Google, Andrew Calit2 scholar, Alex research intelligence project

Projects:

• Daniel: worked on culling, meet w/jurgen on monday at noon to look at culling problem
• Andrew, Alex: worked on documentation, meet w/jurgen on thu at 10:30am to wrap up Rincon project
• Vinh: got wget working, problem w/imagemaps, next week is last week, meet end of week
• Leo: wrote documentation, did some testing
• Karen:

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• order 3ds max and polytrans for the lab
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras

June 22, 2007

Projects:

• Vinh: fixed imagemaps, links work now on varrier
• Alex: met to wrap up Rincon project; started on research information project; found open source library for treemaps
• Andrew: met to wrap up Rincon project; starts next week as Calit2 scholar
• Daniel: still working on culling; needs covise 3ds max exporter for version 9

Action items:

• create login for vinh on vellum -- done
• order 3ds max -- done

June 29, 2007

Projects:

• Karen: clicking on image responds in real time now, almost done
• Andrew: started on new scholarship project
• Iman: got 10k particles to render at 45fps on entire vellum, no scaling issues
• Philip: was out, remodeling kitchen
• Praveen: started on maurizio's
• Michael: worked on communication software for neuroscience project

Action items:

• get simage to work in Coin3D
• talk to rincon/silicon imaging about warranty for broken HD camera
• summer jobs for Michael and Daniel
• build rig for Rincon cameras
• order polytrans for the lab