Seminar on Scientific Soft Skills (NPGR024)
summer 2011/2012

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Taught by Jaroslav Křivánek | Thu 9:00-10:30 in S1 (Malá Strana, 4th floor) | SIS


Purpose

This seminar is for students who want to improve their scientific soft-skills in the English language. The attendees will:

Organization

Paper Assignement

Student Paper
1. Jan Beneš Galin et al., Authoring Hierarchical Road Networks, Pacific Graphics 2011
2. Ján Dupej Combes et al., Automatic symmetry plane estimation of bilateral objects in point clouds, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2008.
3. Ondřej Karlík Lafortune & Willems, A 5D Tree to Reduce the Variance of Monte Carlo Ray Tracing, EGWR 1995.
4. Agata Kleczek Delong & Gerrard, Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection for a Non-life. Insurance Company, Mathematics and Economics, 2008.
5. Martin Šik Bowers et al., Parallel Poisson disk sampling with spectrum analysis on surfaces, SIGGRAPH Asia 2010.
6. Zdeněk Trávníček Lang et al., Nonlinear Disparity Mapping for Stereoscopic 3D, SIGGRAPH 2010
7. Peter Tylka Bober, MPEG-7 visual shape descriptors, IEEE TCSVT.
8. Jiří Vorba Peter & Pietrek, Importance Driven Construction of Photon Maps, EGWR 1998.
9. Aleš Zita Mehdi et al. Blind Source Camera Model Identification, International Conference on Image Processing, 2004.
10. Louis Hache Rosin & Lai, Towards Artistic Minimal Rendering, NPAR 2010.

Presentation revision work groups

Class Schedule

Date Program Slides Attendance
02/23/2012 Introduction. English self-evaluation test. Paper assignment. pdf | pptx
03/01/2012 English grammar. Paper assignment. Lecture 1. pdf | pptx 1
03/08/2012 Student presentations. English grammar. Lecture 2. 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 3
03/15/2012 Paper presentation: Jan Beneš 1 | 3 | 1 - Rd Networds 4
03/22/2012 Student presentation: Agata Kleczeck | Paper presentation: Peter Tylka 4 | 7 - MPEG-7
03/29/2012 Student presentation: Louis Hache | Paper presentation: Agata Kleczek 10 | 4 - Non-life insurance
04/05/2012 Paper presentation: Ondřej Karlík
Paper review due.
AK, PT
04/12/2012 Paper presentation: Zdeněk Trávníček
Paper review discussion.
04/19/2012 Paper presentation: Aleš Zita
04/26/2012 Paper presentation: Martin Šik, Louis Hache
05/03/2012 Paper presentation: Ján Dupej, Jiří Vorba
05/10/2012 Presentation revision: Agata Kleczeck
Written summary due.
05/17/2012 --- (no seminar)
05/24/2012 "Intl. Soft Skills Conference" (= 2nd round of paper presentations): Session 1 & 2