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CSE 456/556
Visualization Fall 2011 Instructor: Dr. Yun (Raymond) Fu Course Webpage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/course/CSE456,556_Fall2011.htm Times: Tuesday and
Thursday 12:30PM - 1:50PM, Alternative Tuesday
12:00pm - 2:10pm Location: Bell Hall 242 Office Hours: Wednesday 1pm - 2pm by appointment Office Hours Location: Bell Hall 241 TA: Dingcheng Ren, dingchen@buffalo.edu 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. 27; 2) final project presentation (30%) on Nov. 29, Dec. 1, 6, and 8; 3) final project report and software package (50%) on 5pm Dec. 8. 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:
Project Presentations PPT or PDF
slides and demos can be used for final project presentations. Schedule: 1. Bojan Dec.
1 2. Mahmoud 3. Yinnan 4. Lei & Xin 5. Qinglin 6. Wei & Ming Dec.
6 @ 12:00pm 7. Qiwen & Jingyu 8. Sean & Thomas 9. Julian 10. Xuhui & Zhi 11. John 12. Liangyue & Peng 13. Nathan 14. Xiaojiang & Yiming Dec.
8 @ 12:00pm 15. Ravi & Rathin 16. Anthony 17. Zhongqi & Lu 18. Yalei & Darwin 19. Xu & Tong 20. Raghavendran 21. Mi & Longfei 22. Yuan & Juehui Submission The presentation slides, the final report and software
package should be submitted to dingchen@buffalo.edu on time, 5pm on Dec. 8. Policy: If submitting latter than 5pm without permission, we will reduce the
score with a penalty of 20%. If submitting after midnight of today without permission,
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Last Update: 12-08-2011, Copyright 2004~2011,
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