Welcome LINC Seminar

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Welcome LINC Seminar

• Dr. Ryan Benton
• September 5, 2008

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Agenda

• LINC
• What is LINC
• Resources
• Seminar
• What to expect.
• What is expected.
• Presentation Tips

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LINC
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What is LINC?

• Laboratory for Internet Computing
• Affiliation of CACS faculty
• Research Group
• Computational Resources

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Why Affiliate?

• Believed there were synergies that could be
  exploited.
• Internet ? Heterogeneous Information
• Goal
• Find
• Extract Information
• Summarize
• Utilize
• Pool resources stronger capabilities.

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Current Status

• Faculty - Current
• CACS
• Dr. Vijay Raghavan
• Dr. Henry Chu
• Dr. Kemal Efe
• EECE
• Dr. Michael Pratt

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Current Status

• Research Staff Current
• Dr. Ryan Benton
• Dr. Zonghuan Wu
• Mr. Jayasimha Katukuri

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Current Status

• Students
• Current (some out of state).
• 20 students (doctoral, master (thesis non))

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Current Status

• Collaborators
• CACS Faculty
• Other Departments
• Other Universities
• Industry

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Former Members

• Faculty - Past
• Dr. Jong Pil Yoon
• Dr. Miroslav Kubat
• Research Staff - Past
• Dr. Biren Shah
• Dr. Aladdin Hafez

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Former Members

• Students
• Graduated (1986-current)
• 37 doctoral students.
• 20 Master theses
• Missing Dr. Efes Students

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Linc - Resources
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Linc - Resources

• Administration
• Access
• Lab
• Services
• Data
• Content Management System

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LINC Administration Hierarchy

• Two owners
• Dr. Vijay Raghavan
• Dr. Chee-Hung Henry Chu
• Lab Policy/Managers
• Ryan Benton
• Jayasimha Katukuri

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LINC Accounts

• To obtain access
• You must be working with one of the LINC
  faculty/staff members.
• Have them send me an email.
• Fill out a key request form (if wish room
  access).
• Bring the filled out request form to Ryan Benton
  (if wish room access).

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Lab (Room 216)

• 24 hour access (via keys).
• One Printer
• Windows
• Working on Unix
• Workstations
• 11 Dell PCs - Windows.
• 2 Dell PCs - Linux
• 5 Sun Workstations
• 2 are only accessible via SSH.

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Services - Storage/Database

• Additional Storage Space
• Soft quota of 1 GB at /lincfs/users/yourid
  directory.
• Data undergoes regular backup.
• LINC Database System
• Postgres
• PostGIS enabled

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Services - Software

• Software Version Control repository
• Projects.
• Individuals.
• Web server
• Some other software.

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Data Sets

• Image Archive
• 811 Images of Buildings
• 16 Images of Interior Walls/Floors
• 241 Aerial Images (sequence)
• 525 Pairs of Images with Lidar Data
• 1769 Pairs of Images without Lidar Data

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Data Sets

• TREC Data
• Large Set of Text Documents
• Medical Imagery
• Pet
• MRI
• Landsat Imagery
• Highway Images

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Content Management System

• http//lincweb.cacs.louisiana.edu90
• Contains information about
• Lab
• Projects
• Seminar
• News
• Other

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Overview of Seminar
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Seminar - Basics

• Occurs on Fridays, 900 1030
• Typically a Presentation given by
• Students
• Faculty/Staff
• Guests
• Discussion

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Seminar - Goals

• Exchange Information
• Presentations
• Discussions
• Follow-ups.
• Learn how/how not to present.
• By watching others
• By presenting yourself.

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Seminar - Membership

• Areas of study
• Data Mining/Pattern Recognition/Machine learning
• Information Retrieval
• Image Processing
• Other
• LIDAR
• GIS
• Rough Set

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Seminar Membership, cont.

• Reason for attending
• 6x9/590
• Thesis/Dissertation
• Assistantship
• Interest
• Other
• In other words, the background of the attendees
  vary.

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Your Job - Good News

• Generally,
• Show up couple of minutes early
• Listen
• Ask Questions
• Determine
• Is this of interest to me?
• Could this help me?
• What opportunities exist?

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Your Job Bad News (maybe)

• You will be a presenter.
• Sign-up early.
• You decide (mostly) about what you discuss.
• Current Work
• Papers Read
• Past Work
• Potentially Useful
• Etc.

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Presentation Tips
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Agenda

• Illusion/Acting
• Preparation
• Stylistic (how slides should appear)
• Mannerisms (how you should appear)

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Illusion/Acting

• Similar to good acting
• Looks Easy
• Result of
• Preparation
• Practice

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Illusion, cont.

• Last Minute Presentation Preparation
• Three Possible Cases
• Have a (similar) presentation already done.
• Providing superficial coverage.
• Are deluded.

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Preparation
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5 Questions.

• Who is the audience?
• What is the goal?
• Why am I speaking?
• Where is it being held?
• When is it?

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Content

• Have a Plan.
• Keep it Simple.
• Why are you telling us this?

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How many slides?

• You will likely have to answer questions.
• No Overtime.
• Heuristic
• Estimate 1 slide per minute.

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Stylistic
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Stylistic

• What is nice on a Monitor may not be on a
  Projector.
• Colors
• Effects
• Height/Width

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Stylistic

• Generally, having a lot of text is a very bad
  idea because the audience will either spend the
  time reading (and not listening to you) or they
  will not bother reading, in which case you have
  wasted you time writing the information.
• What about Proofs/Theorems?

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Stylistic

• Use bullets
• Use images.

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Example Table
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(No Transcript)
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Example 2

• Trying to explain impact of most and least
  significant bits in an image.

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Example 2 - Image Bit Planes
Bit plane 7 (most significant bit)
Bit plane 6
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Example 2 - Image Bit Planes
Bit plane 5
Bit plane 4
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Example 2 - Image Bit Planes
Bit plane 3
Bit plane 2
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Example 2 - Image Bit Planes
Bit plane 1
Bit plane 0 (least significant bit)
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Stylistic

• Small font size BAD!
• Note Small for presentations is still larger
  than that for papers.
• This is likely the smallest you want (20 pt)
  Even then, maybe two slides would be better.
• This is a 14 pt font. Is this something you want
  your audience to try to read
• This is 10 pt font.

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Stylistic

• Keep Presentation Clean
• Avoid Special Effects
• Only use when enhances point.

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Mannerisms
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Mannerisms

• Look at Audience
• Eye-contact
• 3 second rule.
• Do not turn your back.
• Do not look down.

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Mannerisms

• Speaking
• Must project voice (not yell).
• Speed control.
• Must have conviction.
• If you make a mistake
• Correct it
• Move on
• Dont apologize.

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Critical

• Prepare Presentation Early.
• Proofread.
• Avoid Changes Day Before.

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Critical

• Practice
• Timing
• Mirror
• Friends
• Get Feedback

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DO NOT

• Read
• Your notes
• Your presentation.
• Lie
• Be scared of questions.

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Last Tips

• Have Fun.
• Thousands of people have presented.
  They all survived.

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Thank-you

• Questions?