minutes for August 28, 2008
Jie Xu
Location: DC 1304
Time: 1:30
Chair: Jie Xu
Jie Xu
0. Attendence: Richard, Marshall, Craig, Ed, Steve, Jamie, Ryan, Martin,
Mike, Jie
1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
Coffee hour last week:
Steve- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:
Jie
Coffee hour next week:
Jeff
3. Forthcoming
Date: September 4, 2008 September 11, 2008 September 18, 2008
September 25, 2008
Location: DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304
1:30
Chair: Jeff Dicker
Jeff Dicker Gabriel Esteves
Gabriel Esteves Elodie Fourquet
Elodie Fourquet Richard Fung
Richard Fung
Technical Presentation: Bill Cowan
Bill Cowan Jeff Dicker
Jeff Dicker Gabriel Esteves
Gabriel Esteves Elodie Fourquet
Elodie Fourquet
4. Technical Presentation
Martin Talbot
Martin Talbot Title : Tracing Invisible Boundaries of Objects for Better
Orientation
Abstract:
Every obstacle avoidance technology designed to help blind travelers in
their mobility conveys the distance of obstacles using sound or vibrations
feedback. The crude output presented is enough for the detection of
obstacles, but the nature of the obstacles encountered stays oblivious to
the blind traveler.
Sighted persons can recognize 2D objects just by looking at their
outlines. Blind persons can do the same by touching embossed outlines. The
boundaries of objects, which are detectable by current technologies, share
the properties of outline drawings. Hence, out-of-reach obstacles can
potentially be turned into landmarks, provided that we can 'substitute'
the information normally carried by the cutaneous mechano-receptors in the
fingers by another modality. Promoting unlabeled obstacles into landmarks
will increase the number of things to choose from during mobility. Blind
travelers are normally taxed with a quite limited choice of landmarks.
Increasing their number and their 'quality' will ease orientation. I will
present four sound encodings designed to address this problem. A demo will
be shown.
5. Discussion Items
* None so far...
6. Action Items
* CSCF is about to replace a switch on the CGL network, which may
interrupt the services. Time of interuption is unknown.
7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues
Recent Additions
* Bridges 2009
* CAe09
* SIGGRAPH 2009
* GI2009
* GRAPP2009
* Eurographics 2009
* I3D 2009
* VISAPP 2009
Upcoming Deadlines
* Sep 01, 2008: CASA 2008 Conference
8. Directors' Meeting
9. Seminars and Events
2008 Sep 05, 11:30 DC 2306C - Artificial Intelligence Lab PhD Seminar
Tyrell Russell, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
An Application of Constraint Programming to Superblock Instruction
Scheduling
2008 Sep 08, 14:00 DC 2305A - Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar
Wiliam Wong, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci.,
Univ. Waterloo
Developing a Kernel Methodology for an inverse-Quantitative
Structure-Activity Relationship using the Vector Space Model
2008 Sep 08, 14:30 DC 1304 - Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar
Robert Wisniewski, Manager Blue Gene Software Team, IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center
Blue Gene: Achieving Ultrascalalbility with Low Power
2008 Sep 10, 13:30 DC 1304 - Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD
Seminar
Peyman Afshani, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
On Dominance Reporting in 3D
2008 Sep 17, 13:30 DC 1304 - Algorithms and Complexity Group PhD
Seminar
Maxwell Young, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo
The Bad Santa Problem & Power Savings in Radio Networks
2008 Sep 19, 09:30 DC 1331 - Networks and Distributed Systems PhD
Seminar
Maxwell Young, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo
The Bad Santa Problem & Power Savings in Radio Networks
Also see other Math and CS postings.
10. Lab Cleanup