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CSE 456/556
Introduction to Visualization Fall 2010 Instructor: Dr. Yun (Raymond) Fu Course Webpage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/course/CSE456,556_Fall2010.htm Course Syllabus: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/course/Syllabus-CSE456-556-Fall2010.pdf Times: Tuesday and
Thursday 5:00pm-6:20pm Location: 17 CLEMEN HALL Office Hours: Wednesday 2pm¡ª4:30pm by appointment Office Hours Location: Bell Hall 241 Course
Overview Introduction
to relevant topics and concepts in visualization, including computer
graphics, visual data representation, physical and human vision models,
numerical representation of knowledge and concept, animation techniques,
pattern analysis, and computational methods. Tools and techniques for
practical visualization. Elements of related fields including computer
graphics, human perception, computer vision, imaging science, multimedia,
human-computer interaction, computational science, and information theory.
Covers examples from a variety of scientific, medical, interactive
multimedia, and artistic applications. Hands-on exercises and projects. Prerequisites CSE250, basic programming skills, knowledge of
fundamental data structures and algorithms. Grading Students will be graded on participation (at most
two times absence), four homeworks, a mid-term examination, and a final
project and presentation. The final grade will be composed as follows: Class Participation................. 10%
Homework............................. 30% Reference Books (Not required to purchase) Class lecture slides will be provided by the
instructor for each student before each class, either printout or electronic
file. Students will be asked to find more self-learning content from Internet
resource. Recommended textbooks are: 1.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(2nd edition), Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, ISBN 0961392142. 2.
Visualizing Data, Ben Fry, O'Reilly
(2007), ISBN: 0596514557. 3.
Show Me the Numbers, by Stephen Few, Analytics
Press, ISBN: 0970601999. 4.
Data Visualization (principles and practice),
Alexandru C. Telea., A K Peters, Ltd. 5.
Information Visualization (perception for
design) (2nd Edition), Colin Ware, Elsevier Press. Course Topics and Schedules
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* One or two guest lecturers will be invited to
present some topics if funding is available for honoraria or expenses. * Courtesy of Prof. Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard
University. Final Project The final project has two options: visualization
demo design or software tool design. The basic idea of the two directions is
the same which is to collect some scientific data and visualize them. The
demo design mainly focuses on the visual animations, 2D/3D graphics, video
making, and computer vision based visualization techniques. The tool design
is mainly to design and implement a visualization tool that can analyze the
data with any kind of visualization concepts or formats, summarize some
useful results/conclusions, answer questions, and provide suggestions or
comments. The data should be real data, which can be either collected by
individual or borrowed from somewhere (with permission and acknowledgement).
Students can use any API or programming language they like. Students can work
on the project by themselves or team up with other students in the class. The
team members cannot be more than two. To grade the final project, three aspects will
be considered. 1) proposal presentation (20%) on Oct. 26; 2) final project presentation (30%) on Dec. 2 and 7; 3) final project report
and software package (50%) on Dec. 9.
Late submission without instructor¡¯s permission may not be considered.
Typically, we do not anticipate that the grades for each team member will be
different. However, we reserve the right to assign different grades to each
team member if the efforts or contributions they make are apparently
different and unbalanced. Bonus points may be earned if the project shows
significant novelty and large potentials for real-world applications. Those
projects may get our guidance for further paper publications. Proposals and Reports Please consider following contents when you
prepare for your proposals and final reports:
Submission The presentation slides, the final report and
software package should be submitted to yunfu@buffalo.edu
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