AGENDA FOR WEEK 8 (Subject to change) Monday July 12: 9:30am Check in meeting RI 104 12:00pm IBM Visit (leave campus) 5:30pm IBM Visit Return to campus Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. http://csam.montclair.edu/~robila/imagine/ No. 4, 2010 July 11, 2010 imagine REU Site in Image Processing and Computer Vision is a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Site funded by the Department of Defense, Assure Program through a National Science Foundation REU Grants No: CNS-1004447 and IIS- 0648814 Magine Update is a publication of the Imagine REU site. The main purpose is to inform the Site participants and contributors of the current activities and events. Various other materials could be published as warranted. All rights reserved imagine NSF REU 2010. The quote under the logo is attributed to Carl Sagan. Publication contact: Dr. Stefan Robila Department of Computer Science RI 301 Montclair State University Montclair, NJ 07043 PHONE: (973) 655-4230 / (973) 655-4166 FAX: (973) 655-4164 EMAIL: robilas@mail.montclair.edu, nsfreu@mail.montclair.edu Thursday July 15: 9:30am Check in meeting 10:00am Online and paper based surveys 11:00am Peer leader discussion Friday July 16 9:30am Check in meeting RI 104 10:00am Final Presentations RI 104 12:00pm Mentor meeting (RI 105 mentors only) 1:00pm Exit Interviews (room TBA) 3:00pm Submission of all required materials 3:30pm Official end of the site. Saturday July 17 Departure from Village on your own times Please see the rest of the update for details Need Your Photos! Many of you have taken photos during our group activities or during your informal outings. Please provide a copy of these photos to me. IBM Visit! Monday July 12 Th, 12:00pm imagine Update 2010 page 1 of 8
imagine NSF - Participating Students Name Institution Contact Nisha D Amico University of Maryland, College Park bballgoddess6221@yahoo.com http://www.umd.edu/ Leila Zilles Bryn Mawr College lzilles@brynmawr.edu http://www.brynmawr.edu/ Tanya Papazian Montclair State University papaziant1@mail.montclair.edu http://www.montclair.edu Cynthia Sanchez Rutgers University, Newark cysanche@yahoo.com http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/ John Klingner Cornell College jklingner12@cornellcollege.edu http://www.cornellcollege.edu Daniel Jackowitz University of Scranton jackowitzd2@scranton.edu http://matrix.scranton.edu/ Christopher Smith The College of New Jersey smith324@tcnj.edu http://www.tcnj.edu Marco Chang *Peer Mentor Montclair State University http://www.montclair.edu changreynam1@mail.montclair.edu imagine Update 2010 page 2 of 8
Name Office Location Participating Faculty and Staff Role Stefan Robila RI 312 Project Director Mentor (Marco Chang, Nisha D Amico) Contact robilas@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-4230 http://csam.montclair.edu/~robila Jerry Fails RI 309 Mentor (Leila Zilles) failsj@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-4289 http://netdrive.montclair.edu/~failsj/ Bogdan Nita RI 243 Mentor (Christopher Smith) nitab@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-7261 Jing Peng RI 309 Mentor (Tanya Papazian, John Klingner) Aparna Varde RI 305 Mentor(Daniel Jacowitz, Cynthia Sanchez) James Zimmerman 139B Sprague Library Site Evaluator http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~nita/ pengj@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-7975 vardea@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-4292 https://netdrive.montclair.edu/~vardea/ zimmermanj@mail.montclair.edu 973-655-3134 http://www.montclair.edu/academy/zimmerman.html Sanjeev Wahi RI 320 Industrial Advisor wahi@ads-pica.com George Antoniou Beverly Macaluso (973) 655-4093 RI 306 Participating Faculty george.antoniou@montclair.edu (973) 655-4250 http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~antoniou/ RI 301 Department Assistant macalusob@mail.montclair.edu (973) 655-4166!!!Please Complete the following evaluation survey!!! Please access the surveys below and provide your feedback. Thank you. Graduate School https://surveys.montclair.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1278294755522 Company Site Visits https://surveys.montclair.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1278796194953 Overall imagine REU Evaluation https://surveys.montclair.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1278796660144 Pwd: reu10 imagine Update 2010 page 3 of 8
Keep in Touch! Dear Chris, Cynthia, Daniel, John, Leila, Marco, Nisha, and Tanya, I cannot believe that eight weeks are quickly getting to a close! It feels like only few days aho it was May 23 rd and I met each of you when you were making your way to the Village at Little Falls flying, driving or being driven and you were checking in. I want to thank you for all your hard work and enthusiasm shown while at Montclair. I certainly hope that you found this Research Experience worthwhile and that you are leaving with a renewed understanding of research in imaging, signals or vision, as well as computing sciences in general. We have come a long way, travelling close to 300 miles to see research in action at various companies and we have worked hundreds of hours towards completion of the projects. We are now in the last week of the summer program. However, this is not it! I will continue to interact with you on a regular basis. Each semester you will receive an email from you asking about the current status: what have you been up to, if you have done any presentations or if you have moved towards a new degree or a new job. I kindly request that you timely answer the questions, and I promise to keep them brief. I also know that I will see may of you at professional events. The REU program provides funding for you to travel to conferences and present your work. Please start searching for venues where your project can be presented. One more time, thank you for choosing our site, thank you for your effort and keep in touch! Thank you, Stefan Robila Schedule of Activities: Week 8 I hope you had a pleasant and relaxing weekend. This message describes the requirements for the last week of the program. Required components from you In accordance with the REU imagine goals, your research project work will have to be summarized in a report and in a presentation. The following is a checklist of the activities you must complete before leaving campus: a) You have to submit the final version of the presentation to me no later than 10am on Friday July 16. You should also post a copy of your presentation on your website. Please prepare a 15 minute / person presentation that includes enough details on the problem you imagine Update 2010 page 4 of 8
worked on as well as your contribution. It is advisable to clearly indicate which parts (if any) were your individual contributions vs which parts were done as a research team or as a discovery work. Most of the faculty mentors will be present at your presentation. I also anticipate that the department's chair and the college's dean will also attend the presentation. b) You have to submit a completed report to me no later than 1pm on Friday July 16. The report has to be very explicit in describing the problem you worked on, the methods you used, and the progress you made. Please include every reference you used, printed or online. If any code was also generated, please submit a copy of the code as an archive to me. If need additional help with formatting it, please request it ASAP. c) You must send the presentation and report drafts to your mentor and request feedback. Please do not do this on Wednesday night, as the time will be too short. d) Your personal webpage must be complete on Thursday evening. The webpage should contain the project description, list of papers and literature used, weekly blog, final presentation, as well as any additional materials you find fit. Note that last week I sent individual messages indicating that some of the pages seem out of date. Today, most of them have not been updated. e) The main imagine webpage is not finalized. No photos were added and a link to Dominik s page was not created. This is in fact weeks behind schedule. I request that you complete this page no later than Thursday evening (July 15). Note that there are four people in the web team. f) Complete ALL three online surveys no later than Thursday evening (July 15). g) Complete the ATGS survey and other paper based surveys on Thursday July 15 at 10am (RI 104). This will be provided to you. h) Complete the exit interview with Dr. James Zimmerman by Wednesday July 14 (by /online). i) Deliver the presentation on Friday July 16 (RI 104). Time was set aside between 10am and noon. j) Attend the peer leader round table on Thursday July 15 at 11:00am. In this activity you are asked to discuss your summer experience and provide feedback on your participation. Summarize this feedback and communicate this to Marco. Marco must provide a 1-2 page summary by end of Friday July 16. k) Create a zip file of your work that includes the presentation, report, and any code and data. Copy the zip file in the folder REU2010 available on the flash drive marked REU2010 and provided by me. Do this no later than Friday July 16 at 1pm. imagine Update 2010 page 5 of 8
l) Copy your photos. Collect the photos that you took during your stay at Montclair and put them in a folder with your name in the in the folder REU2010 available on the flash drive marked REU2010 and provided by me. Do this no later than Thursday July 15 at 8pm. m) Submit company visits reports. IBM Research Chris/Leila you are required to submit a visit report no later than Friday July 24 at 1pm. n) Clean up your work environment. Please ensure that the computer that you used is being returned in good order. Throw away any trash or unwanted materials. Return all books or other materials to their owners. Do this no later than Friday July 16 in the evening. o) Return the digital projector to the lab by Thursday July 15. p) Attend the final exit interview on Friday July 17 (after 1:00pm). q) Return the lab swipe cards / ID cards and parking hagtags to Marco no later than Saturday morning (July 17). Marco should return the cards to me in the same day. r) Check out from the Village no later than noon on Saturday July 17. Please do this directly through the Village office. Make sure the rooms and the entire apartment are left in the same way you found them with all the furniture in its right place. Make sure the linen provided is returned. Also, ensure all keys and the access card are returned. Failure to do so will result in financial penalties. s) Confirm your arrival. Upon your return home, please send me a quick message confirming your safe arrival. Please understand that all items above are essential to the program's well being and that I am counting on you to pull this last effort. Failure to complete the tasks above will result in the last check being held. imagine Update 2010 page 6 of 8
Summary of Activity: Visit to Vision Research (report provided by Leila and Daniel) On June 23, 2010, we visited the headquarters of Vision Research, located in Wayne, NJ. The company was founded by Charles and Marjorie Jantzen in 1950 under the brand Photographic Analysis Company (PAC). PAC began as a service-oriented business that provided service and maintenance to high-speed photography equipment. In 1988, PAC bought a high-speed camera manufacturing company and, now run by the founders son Andy, entered the realm of sales. However, prior to the 1990s, the high-speed photography industry was moving very slowly, with the average length of each generation of cameras being about 25 years long. This changed drastically with the advent of digital photography in the early 90s, when the physical limitations of advancing film disappeared. The company sold its last film camera in the year 2000 and is now, only 10 years later, an aggressive player in the high-speed digital photography industry. Their customers span a very wide spectrum their cameras are used in academic research, by the military, in the entertainment industry, and more. To satisfy the needs of this diverse customer base, the company produces a number of different models of cameras, most notably their Phantom line. Cameras on the high end of this line, which can cost up to $200,000 before accessories, are able to capture up to 1.7 billion pixels per second, a number which has been steadily increasing for the past decade. Further advancement in the manufacturing of high speed cameras, however, faces three main obstacles speed, resolution, and sensitivity. Building a better camera involves striking a balance between these three factors, and Vision Research is always pushing forward to stay ahead of the competition. Our visit began with a brief presentation on the company s history and overview of some of the current applications of their technology. Then, we proceeded to take a tour of the facilities and had the opportunity of witnessing the production of their cameras up close. We began on the bottom floor and received a detailed explanation on how we are able to fit so much computational power into smaller and smaller devices. Thanks to surface-mount technology, capacitors and other components have been shrinking rapidly in size, allowing the devices they compose to shrink as well. The first capacitor we were shown was roughly the size of a peanut, while the last one (about five generations later) was hardly differentiable from a speck of dust. We also saw much of the equipment used to screen print and imagine Update 2010 page 7 of 8
assemble the circuit boards and witnessed the extensive testing process that the engineers put the hardware through throughout production. After our tour of the facilities, we were shown some high speed videos filmed with Vision Research cameras. A few of these videos were created by Vision Research employees simply for the purpose of demonstrating the functionality of the cameras, but most were filmed by customers and contained actual footage from commercials and documentaries. Finally, to wrap up the visit, we received a firsthand demonstration of a high speed camera in action as various objects were filmed bouncing off of a table and then played back in slow motion. The results were surprising, to say the least, and perfectly illustrated the value of high speed cameras for truly understanding the finer details of the everyday phenomena that we sometimes take for granted. Task Leaders Chosen The following are the task leaders for each trip. NJ school of Conservation - June 1st, Marco & Tanya - COMPLETE DE Shaw Research - June 7Th, John and Chris - COMPLETE Vision Research - June 23Rd, Daniel, Leila - COMPLETE Videobank - June 22Nd, Nisha, Cynthia - COMPLETE Sarnoff, June 28Th, John, Daniel - COMPLETE Siemens, Tanya, Marco WILL NOT DO THIS YEAR Sterling Hill Museum - Cynthia and Nisha WILL NOT DO THIS YEAR IBM Research, July 12Th, Chris, Leila- PLEASE SUBMIT REPORT imagine Update 2010 page 8 of 8