[4eyes] [sen-lab] Re: please respond: doodle poll for weekly ML Discussion group (1.5 hours)

Mon Oct 14 23:29:24 PDT 2019

For the paper reading on Friday I'm planning on covering "Selectively
Metropolised Monte Carlo light transport simulation" from Benedikt Bitterli.

The paper proposes a method to combine Metropolis-based rendering
algorithms with regular path tracing in a way that minimizes traditional
Metropolis weaknesses (non-uniform noise, inefficiency on simple transport)
by only using it locally in areas of the image with complex transport-
while remaining fast and unbiased. This involves tweaking the Metropolis
target distribution, some clever use of MIS weights, and leveraging recent
outlier detection work.

Here's the project page:
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/smlt/

And a direct link to the paper:
https://benedikt-bitterli.me/smlt/bitterli19selectively.pdf

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:44 PM Pradeep Sen <psen at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Ah, yes, we should do that.  In fact, given that I haven't seen any of the
> slides
> yet (and this is your second paper talk, right?) we might need a bit of
> time to
> go through your slides and give feedback.  This would be useful for all the
> students to see what to do (and what not to do).
>
> So I suggest that we spend the bulk of the meeting on that and then we can
> discuss updates on individual projects for the rest of the time. Chris, we
> can
> do the paper reading next week.
>
> Best,
>
> -Pradeep
>
> ---
> Pradeep Sen
> Professor
> UCSB MIRAGE Lab
> Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:26 PM Steve Bako <stevebako at ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lingqi,
>>
>> I had signed up to give a practice run of my PG talk in this week's
>> rendering meeting. Could we do that instead or at least allocate a chunk of
>> time for that? The talk is next week, so this would be the only opportunity
>> before that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:39 PM Lingqi Yan <lingqi at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We will have our first rendering group meeting this quarter on* Friday,
>>> Oct 11, from 12PM to 1:30PM, in HFH 5106*.
>>> This time, Chris will be sharing his thoughts on some SIGGRAPH Asia
>>> papers.
>>> Look forward to meeting you there.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -- Lingqi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:31 AM Lingqi Yan <lingqi at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> It was really painful to find a time that suits everyone for our
>>>> Rendering Group Meeting.
>>>>
>>>> After discussion with Pradeep, I propose that we schedule our rendering
>>>> group meeting from *12PM - 1:30PM* (may end earlier) *every Friday*
>>>> (excluding today). Feel free to bring and have your lunch during the
>>>> meeting.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any concerns. If most of us are OK with
>>>> it, I will send out a confirmation soon. Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:39 PM Lingqi Yan <lingqi at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm reusing Ekta's email thread to start another poll on our Rendering
>>>>> Group Meeting:
>>>>> https://doodle.com/poll/yiv2ixcctz9wmus4
>>>>> Please let me know your availabilities as soon as possible, so we can
>>>>> start next week.
>>>>>
>>>>> And feel free to sign yourself up to be the student in charge along
>>>>> with your topic. You will be doing it at least once in this quarter.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12ONLjeRk6cdopLxFXGwF0OO8mnyuJOCsX08JAAfFvoY/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> -- Lingqi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:40 PM Ekta Prashnani <
>>>>> ektaprashnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Apologies for multiple emails: just wanted to clarify since I got a
>>>>>> few queries - ML stands for Machine Learning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a reminder: this is a weekly discussion group to discuss trends in
>>>>>> machine learning, findings and bottlenecks from ongoing machine learning
>>>>>> projects in Mirage and 4Eyes lab, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ekta Prashnani <
>>>>>> ektaprashnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just a reminder: please sign up for the ML discussion group meeting
>>>>>>> time for Fall 2019. (See my email on this thread.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> Ekta
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 9:55 PM Ekta Prashnani <
>>>>>>> ektaprashnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am sending a doodle poll to schedule the Fall 2019 ML Discussion
>>>>>>>> group.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here is the link: https://doodle.com/poll/wdaz6cf5pv455567
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please sign up for all the time slots that work for you and it
>>>>>>>> would be great if we could have the responses soon to get these meetings
>>>>>>>> started.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have set the duration of these meetings to 1.5 hours based on my
>>>>>>>> past experience of how long these meetings tend to go for.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Since some of the lab members would be interested in joining
>>>>>>>> remotely (including myself), one of the on-campus attendees in every
>>>>>>>> meeting would be requested to volunteer for setting up a google meeting.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We would also need to book a room (in case we haven't already), for
>>>>>>>> which I seek help from the attendees present on campus for the Fall quarter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>> Ekta
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ekta Prashnani
>>>>>>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>>>>>>> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>>>>>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>> Personal Homepage: https://prashnani.github.io/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ekta Prashnani
>>>>>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>>>>>> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>>>>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>> Personal Homepage: https://prashnani.github.io/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ekta Prashnani
>>>>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>>>>> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>>>>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>> Personal Homepage: https://prashnani.github.io/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Lingqi Yan*
>>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>>> Department of Computer Science
>>>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lingqi
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Lingqi Yan*
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Department of Computer Science
>>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lingqi
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Lingqi Yan*
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Department of Computer Science
>>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>>> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~lingqi
>>>
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