15-869 COMPUTER GRAPHICS SEMINAR

TR 3:00pm-4:20pm EDSH (Smith Hall) 236

INSTRUCTORS
Yaser Sheikh (coordinator) Stelian Coros Keenan Crane Kayvon Fatahalian Jessica Hodgins Burak Kara Srinivas Narasimhan Nancy Pollard

BREAKING NEWS: Provide feedback to the debate teams!

SUMMARY
This seminar course introduces the frontiers of computer graphics research. The goal is to encourage the ability to think critically and constructively about active research topics.

DESCRIPTION
The course lectures are divided into three categories:

1. "How to..." Talks

"How to give a talk" by Kayvon
"How to read a paper" by Yaser
"How to write a paper" by Jessica
"How to pitch a project" by Nancy

2. Paper Debates
Each paper will be assigned to two teams of two, debating the statement:

This paper makes a lasting impact on computer graphics

The affirmative team will build the case for the contributions of the paper and justify its limitations. The improvement team will constructively challenge the contributions and highlight the failures and limitations of the paper.

The debate will be 40 minute long:
15 minutes opening statement of contributions (affirmative team)
5 minutes of opposition questioning (improvement team)
10 minutes of limitations statement (improvement team) 
5 minutes of opposition questioning (affirmative team)
5+ minutes of audience questions

During the debate, the participants will be expected to cover the SIGGRAPH review questions, with useful reviewer instructions here.

3. Paper Pitches

Each student will submit a written pitch of a project in the SIGGRAPH format. This pitch will be an idea that you are excited about pursuing for SIGGRAPH; preliminary results are encouraged but not required. Each student will present a pitch to the class followed by discussion of the idea in the class. All students will enter a SIGGRAPH style review of the paper pitch as feedback for the student.

SCHEDULE