Progress Report

March 21^st, 2006

Overview

• ISBI Poster
• BMVC - template, CVPR re-use, needed discussion
• MIUA, Manchester - theme is similar to that of the ISBI paper, placeholder is ready
• Form 12
• Thesis structure
• Organisational activities
• Departure from Manchester Computing

Form 12 Meeting - Subsequent Work

• Re-written a thesis outline, merely from the ground up
• Much 'cleaner' than that previous plan, which was a draft
• There is still refinement work to be done before it becomes coherent
• Re-wrote the text in Form 12
• It complies with what you suggested during the meeting

Tasks Left Ahead

• Various notes on remaining tasks
• Normalisation reading
• Milstones: 3-D efficiency, entropy-based normalisation, 3-D experiments
• Occasional submissions

Poster for ISBI

• Made some good progress with the poster
• Produced using L^AT_EX
• Before going any further, need to know if the general layout looks reasonable
• The content seems less relevant at this early stage
• Some content only serves as a placeholder
• Still working on the text of the poster

BMVC 2006 Submission

• Had a first go at the BMVC paper (see attachment in E-mail)
• BMVC submission will be re-use of the rejected submission to CVPR
• Paper due before leaving for ISBI
• Deadline is the 10^th, which means we must submit before departing for ISBI
• Textual content attached and bound to template
• Deadline date: April 10^th

MIUA 2006 Submission

• MIUA is due by the 24^th, so plenty of time to spare
• Put together a good starting point for an MIUA submission

Complete Form 12

• A chance to look at the modification made to form 12 and the new thesis outline
• 6 Reference need more space (second page to fit properly)
• Agree on date for thesis submission or reconvene

Technical Milestones Ahead

• Work on pseudo-entropy in graphs
• Literature on the topic - papers on fitting, estimate and understand the behaviour, take account of data, dimensionality, set sizes, etc.
• Mockup data, random training sets, synthesis
• 10,000 synthetic images overnight?
• Unsubmitted paper, which was intended for MICCAI, still worth completing
• 3-D data from Kola, optimisations to code, and experiments

Work Department and Other Activities

• MCC - I resigned, last Thursday was last day
• More time to concentrate fully on the Ph.D.
• Organisation matters: travel, communication, backups