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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 (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), Vinh (web browser on varrier)