## Michael Gleicher
## Activity Report 1/1/05-12/31/05

# A. Writing

Co-authors noted as (s)are students under my direction (p) for
post-docs under my direction, (o) are students and post-docs under the
direction of other senior colleagues.

## A.1 Books and Book Chapters (appeared)

+ Michael Gleicher. "Curves" in _Fundamentals of Computer Graphics_
  by Shirley et. al. 2005, AK Peters. pages 301-346.

  Chapter in an Introductory Textbook

## A.2.1 Refereed Publications - Appeared

+ Vidya Setlur(o), Saeko Takagi(o), Ramesh Raskar, Michael Gleicher,
  and Bruce Gooch. Automatic Image Retargeting. International
  Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2005. Selected
  as one of the 3 best papers at conference. Acceptance rate 32%.
  (submitted June, 2005)

+ Feng Liu(s) and Michael Gleicher. Automatic Image Retargeting with
  FisheyeView Warping. Proceedings of UIST 2005.  (acceptance rate
  31/159) 
  (submitted April 2005)

+ Mankyu Sung(s), Lucas Kovar(p), and Michael Gleicher. Fast and
  accurate goal-directed motion synthesis for crowd. 2005 Symposium on
  Computer Animation. (acceptance rate 35/100)  
  (submitted April 2005)

+ Michael Gleicher and Lucas Kovar. Methods for Motion Databases:
  Automated Search and Parameterization. 2005 Game Developers
  Conference. March 2005. (acceptance rate 125/800)  
  (submitted Fall, 2004)

+ Michael Wallick(s), Rachel Heck(s), and Michael Gleicher. Chalkboard
  and Marker Regions. Proceedings of Mirage 2005. March 2005.  
  (submitted November 2004)

Note: the following appear as short paper / abstracts. All were
refereed.

+ F. E. Pollick, V. Lestou, Z. Kourtzi, L. Kovar(p), M. Gleicher,
        J. Vangeneugden, R. Vogels. Using movement blends to study
        action recognition. Program No. 390.20.2005. Society for
        Neuroscience.  
	(submitted summer 2005)

+ F. E. Pollick, Y. Ma, J. Vangenuegden, Z. Kourtzi, L. Kovar(p),
        M. Gleicher. Perceptual Catgeorization of Movement
        Blends. 2005 Symposium on Computer Animation Poster
	Session.  
  	(submitted April, 2005)

+ Michael Wallick(s) and Michael Gleicher. Magic Boards. SIGGRAPH 2005
  Posters.  
  (submitted May, 2005)

+ Michael Gleicher and Lucas Kovar(p). _Automated Construction of
  Parameterized Motions from Motion Databases_. 2005 SAE Digital Human
  Modeling For Design and Engineering Symposium, June 14-16, 2005.  
  (submitted November 2004)

## A.2.2 Refereed Publications - Accepted, but not Appeared

+ Thomas Brunet (s), K. Evan Nowak(s), and Michael
  Gleicher. Integrating Dynamic Deformations into Interactive Volume
  Visualization. Proceedings EuroVIS 2006, the Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC
  Symposium on Visualization. May, 2006.  
  (submitted December 2005, Accepted Jan 2005, To Appear May 2006)

## A.2.3 Refereed Publications - Submitted, but not Accepted (yet)

Papers under review:

+ Rachel Heck(s), Michael Wallick(s) and Michael Gleicher. Virtual
  Videography. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing,
  Communications, and Applications.  
  (submitted November 2005)

Other papers submitted:

+ Hutchinson, E.B.(o), Jochman, K.A.(o), McElwee, M.(o), Brunet,
  T.(s),  Tanty, K.(o), Nowak, K.E.(s), Gleicher, M., and Lahvis, G.P. 
  Emergence of Microvascular Heterogeneity during Maturation of the
  Juvenile Mouse Brain.
  Submitted to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  (submission in October 2005)

+ Vidya Setlur(o), Saeko Takagi(o), Ramesh Raskar, Michael Gleicher,
  and Bruce Gooch. Automatic Image Retargeting. Submitted to SIGGRAPH
  2005. (submission in Jan 2005)

+ Mankyu Sung(s), Stephen Chenney and Michael Gleicher. Motion
  Collision Detection. Submitted to Computer Graphics International
  (submission in March 2005)

+ Rachel Heck (s) and Michael Gleicher. Splicing Upper Body Motions to
  Locomotions. Submitted to ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer
  Animation. (submission in April 2005)

((SecB))
# B. Research Proposals

## Submitted

+ Gleicher (PI). Example-based Representation of Spaces of Human
  Motion. NSF Division of Computing and Comminications Foundations
  (CCF). $450,000. Submitted June, 2005.

+ Gleicher (PI). SGER: Volume Comparisons. NSF Division of Computing
  and Comminications Foundations (CCF). $55,000. Submitted June 2005.

+ Gleicher (PI). Example-Based Motion Synthesis.
  UW Grad School Research Competition. Submitted September, 2005.

+ Gleicher (PI). Physically-plausible Motion Synthesis. Submitted to
  the Honda Research Initiation Program, April 2005.

## Funded

+ Gleicher (PI). SGER: Volume Comparisons. NSF Division of Computing
  and Comminications Foundations (CCF). $55,000. (Funded September
  2005-2006). 

## Continuing

+ Gleicher (PI), Gooch. Image and Video Retargeting. Submitted to NSF
  Program on Human and Computer Interaction. (Funded Aug 2004-2007) -
  FUNDED $700,000 (approx) - $400K for UW.

# C. Courses Taught

+ Spring 2005: On Sabbatical

+ Fall 2005: CS 559 - Computer Graphics  
  32 students completed class  
  28 students did evaluations  
  Question 8 average = 4.07  
  (1=1, 2=2, 3=4, 4=8, 5-13)

# D. Ph. D. Student Supervision

+ Mankyu Sung - Ph. D. 2005 - Successfully defended  thesis 
  November, 2005  
  Graduated and working for ETRI (Korean National Laboratory for
  electronics and telecomunications)

+ Michael Wallick - passed prelim, December 2005 (passed qual previously)

+ Rachel Heck - will take prelim Spring 2006  (passed qual previously)

+ Tom Brunet - passed Qual Fall 2005

+ Feng Liu - passed Qual Fall 2005

+ Greg Cipriano - passed Qual Fall 2005

# E. Lectures, Colloquia

Note: having a new baby meant limiting my travel

# F. Committees

+ Internal
  - On Sabbitical for 1/2 year
  - Chair, Undergraduate Advising Committee
  - Sole member of Graphics Qualifyin Exam Committee  
    This was a lot of work since I had to prepare the new reading
    list, prepare the exam, and grade the exam for 5 students taking
    it. Lots of extra effort went into making sure it was a fair
    process. 

+ External
  - Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
    Graphics 
  - Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Graphics
  - Symposium on Computer Animation Steering Committee
  - Program Committee NPAR 2006
  - Program Committee ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 2006
  - Program Committee Virtual Crowds 2006
  - NSF Panel: Graphics Career Awards

# G. Reviews
  - ACM Transactions on Graphics (5)
  - SIGGRAPH (3)
  - IEEE TVCG (5)
  - IEEE PAMI (1)
  - V-Crowds (3)
  - I3D (5)

# H. Other

# I. Work In Progress

+ Animation - work continues - 2 papers in process (1 grad student
  still working on animation)

+ Visual Simulation / Games for Training - begun pilot project with
  GAPPS group in Education / UW System. (1 grad student funded by Army
  contract)

+ Virtual Videography - working on engineering issues to make it a
  practical system. (1 grad student, 2 papers in submission)

+ Image and Video Retargeting - developing salience detection methods
  that will serve as the core of automatic editing tools (1 grad
  student) 

+ Visualization for Proteomics - developing tools for visualization
  and analysis of protein shapes. (3 grad students, collaboration with
  George Phillips)

+ Photo collection management - developing tools for automatic
  management of image collections (1 grad students, several
  undergrads)