ITNG Conference Photos

Here are a couple of photos we took at the Las Vegas ITNG Conference.

~ Kaitlyn

Post-Vegas Update

The ITNG 2012 conference in Vegas was quite a learning experience. Yang did a great job presenting our Wavelet paper.

Kate and I attended one session each day of the conference, including ours (Image and Audio Processing Applications), Information Security and Privacy, and Social Computing. While most of the presentations were interesting, I feel we learned another lesson from the presenters: what not to do during a presentation, and what not to wear. Dr. Zheng told us the dress code was business professional, so it was kind of funny to see some of the presenters wearing jeans.

We had our last official meeting of the semester today. Our final report for CREU is due May 4, so Kate and I will get that done this weekend. Dr. Zheng also informed us of his research proposal for next semester. I'm not sure I'll be able to do it, what with Senior Design and the potential of working 20 hours a week looming.

Jacqui

Progress Update

The past few weeks have been really busy.  
Jacqui and I finished writing the code for three color features.  The opponent histogram, the rghistogram, and the transformed color distribution.  The first color feature, the opponent histogram, has been tested.  It works fairly well, however, we need to continue to adjust some of the parameters in order to get more accurate results.

Jacqui and I have also been working on getting ready for the Student Research Symposium (SRS).  We went to a workshop to get tips on writing an extended abstract.  We then worked on a draft for the extended abstract.  Each of us worked on separate sections within the abstract.  I worked on the introduction and methods sections and Jacqui worked on the results and discussion and conclusion sections.  Once we finished the draft both Yang and Dr. Zheng reviewed it and suggested changes.  We finalized the document and turned that in.

The SRS was held yesterday, Friday April 13, 2012.  Jacqui and I presented our poster, which turned out very well.  We had many viewers.  Many also seemed intrigued with the research we were doing.  Some official reviewers came by to view our presentation.  The head of the SRS said we would be receiving the critiques from these reviewers sometime after the symposium.

We are headed to Las Vegas, Nevada tomorrow.  We are attending a conference.  Dr. Zheng said our main presentation will be held on Monday around 10am.  Jacqui and I will also be attending some of the seminars there.


~ Kaitlyn

Progress Update

Last week Jacqui and I went to the poster workshop.  So that we could get ideas for creating out poster for the Student Research Symposium.  They also said there would be more workshops to attend and we could go to the Writing Center for help.

We had a meeting on Friday.  Zheng told us that Jacqui and I would be going to the Grace Hopper conference in Baltimore.  He said we should start looking into and setting up reservations.

While programming the color feature, I ran into a few problems.  My code refused to compile once I added a color photo to the project. I changed the path to the photo within the code, however, syntactically the path was written wrong for the linux operating system.  Once this was fixed we also determined that the rest of the program wouldn't accept the color feature code due to the fact that the color features are based on 3D instead of the 2D that the grayscale photos are based on.

Yang was able to change the code so that it would work for the color feature.

~ Kaitlyn

Update

I have been working on the color feature implementation.  I have the formulas implemented.  Next, I need to implement how the values that I receive from the formulas will be used in order to extract the feature.  I am going to try to meet with Yang later this week in order to go over this.

There is also a poster workshop that Jacqui and I will be attending on wednesday so that we can get help and ideas for creating our poster for the Student Research Symposium.


~Kaitlyn

Progress Update

Upon submitting the form for the Student Research Symposium here at NMT, I was informed that we would be able to complete a poster presentation.  There are going to be certain times that we can go to get help organizing and creating our poster.

During the meeting with Yang, I was able to better understand what I needed to do in order to implement the code for the color features.  I am currently in the middle of implementing the code, there is just a few more things I need to figure out in order to finish one of the color features.

~Kaitlyn

Student Research Symposium

Kate and I have submitted our application for New Mexico Tech's Student Research Symposium, with my abstract as part of the submission. We're planning on doing a poster presentation. The poster is due March 23, and the extended abstract is due April 2. The Symposium itself will be held on Friday, April 13.

The meeting today with Yang went well. We'll start working more intensively on the color features.

Jacqui