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USC SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Screening
Mon, Oct 02, 2006 @ 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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USC Siggraph Kick Off: Dinner and Outdoor Screening of SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre 2005 Come get some free food, meet your fellow members, and watch some cool animations. All are welcome!More info on USC SIGGRAPH at http://imagine-it.org/uscsiggraph/
Location: Fine Arts Lawn
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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USC CS Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 05, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Tanya Berger-WolfUI, ChicagoTitle:A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks Abstract:
Finding patterns of social interaction within a population has wide-ranging applications including: disease modeling, cultural and information transmission, phylogeography, conservation, and behavioral ecology. Social interactions are often modeled with networks. A key characteristics of social interactions is their continual change. However, most past analyses of social networks are essentially static in that all information about the time that social interactions take place is discarded. I will present a new mathematical and computational framework that enables analysis of dynamic social networks and that explicitly makes use of information about when social interactions occur. I will discuss several algorithms for obtaining information about the structure of dynamic social networks in this framework and pose many open questions.The research is joint work with J. Saia (UNM), D.I.Rubenstein, S. Sundaresan, and I. Fischoff (Princeton) Bio:
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research is in applications of algorithmic and data mining techniques to population biology, both human (epidemiology) and animal, from genetics to social interactions. Dr. Berger-Wolf has received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) in 1995 and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She has spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico working in computational phylogenetics and a year at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) doing research in computational epidemiology. Hosted by Prof. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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USC CS Colloquium Series
Tue, Oct 10, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Victor Zordan
UC, RiversideTitle: Animating Characters Using Motion Capture and Simulation Abstract:Automatically creating humanlike animation for characters is difficult, especially in applications such as video games and online environments where the characters must move realistically, respond to unpredicted events, and remain controllable at a high level by the users of such virtual worlds. In this talk, I describe several techniques for generating realistic character motion using examples recorded from humans and physically based models, focusing primarily on controllable, responsive characters that combine dynamic simulation and recorded data. My research relies on human examples to dictate movement style and on simulation to create physically plausible motion including interactions with the environment and other simulated characters. Emphasis will be placed on generating believable unpredicted responses within a motion capture dependent animation system as well as on using both motion capture and simulation alone as mechanisms for generating high fidelity movement for humans. The talk will close with a brief discussion about the role of physics in generating games and online motion that is beyond the scope of applications seen today. Bio:Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Riverside, Dr. Victor Zordan received his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. Professor Zordan's research interests fall in several areas of computer animation including human motion, physically based modeling, interactive virtual environments, behavior control, and interface design. He has published numerous papers on the control of human and humanlike characters as well as on several other topics including anatomical modeling, procedural approaches, and video-based animation. http://graphics.cs.ucr.edu/projects/mocsim/mocsim.htmlHosted by: Prof. Karen Liu
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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CS Colloquium Series
Thu, Oct 12, 2006 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
Prof. Trevor DarrellMIT CSAILTitle:Visual Recognition and Tracking for Perceptive InterfacesAbstract: Devices should be perceptive, and respond directly to their human user and/or environment. In this talk I'll present new computer vision algorithms for fast recognition, indexing, and tracking that make this possible, enabling multimodal interfaces which respond to users'
conversational gesture and body language, robots which recognize common object categories, and mobile devices which can search using visual cues of specific objects of interest. As time permits, I'll describe recent advances in real-time human pose tracking for multimodal interfaces, including new methods which exploit fast computation of approximate likelihood with a pose-sensitive image
embedding. I'll also present our linear-time approximate correspondence kernel, the Pyramid Match, and its use for image indexing and object recognition, and discovery of object categories. Throughout the talk, I'll show interface examples including grounded multimodal conversation as well as mobile image-based information retrieval applications based on these techniques.Hosted by: Gerard MedioniLocation: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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JavaScript, XML, & AJAX Workshop
Wed, Oct 18, 2006 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Student Activity
We'll be covering basics of Javascript and XML, as they pertain to AJAX, a common technique used for creating fast-response & dynamic web2.0 apps.Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and the DOM. You can check our website for notes from the previous workshop on those topics.First come, first served. (We will not be taking RSVPs)Upsilon Pi Epsilon
USC Computer Science Honors Society
http://pollux.usc.edu/~upe/Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 127
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
