ECE516: Intelligent Image Processing

Schedule		Labs		Philosophy		Opportunities		20-Year ECE516 History

Schedule for January 2025

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Note: Prof. Mann has received the IEEE Consumer Electronics Award for 2025 (joining the ranks of Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple, the 2021 Award recipient, Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux the 2018 Award recipient, and Marty Cooper, inventor of the cellphone 2015 Award recipient), and will miss 2 lectures to be at the Awards Ceremony Jan 9-14 at CES / IEEE ICCE presenting XR. Your highly capable TAs will fill in these 2 lectures.

There are three 1-hour lectures each week, and Ravi has indicated the new website for checking most up-to-date timetable is:
ttb.utoronto.ca

Lectures and labs are in BA3165 (room 3165 on the 3rd floor of Bahen building).

Tue. 1pm lecture, starting 2025 January 7th; Wed. 1pm lecture; Fri. 9am lab (Every other week, starts Jan 17); Fri. 1pm lecture. The intro assignment is due Fri. Jan 24th (interleaved to avoid lab dates). Office hours take place in Bahen building, immediately after each lecture, or by arrangement. Professor Mann is also available for an informal Fireside Chat on Saturdays 1:30pm to 3:30pm at Ontario Place, Trillium Park Firepit (join, if you like, for a cold-water swim ... why? ... and warm up by the fire afterwards).

Here's a nice ASCII-art graphical/tabular layout of the schedule:
Time Mo Tu We Th Fr 9h ECE516lab 10h ECE516lab 11h ECE516lab 12h 13h ECE516lec ECE516lec ECE516lec 14h Office hr. Office hr. Office hr.
During the pandemic, lectures were posted online as videos, so you might like to subscribe to my YouTube user Hydraulist and look at some previous lectures under the ECE516 playlist of YouTube user Hydraulist.

Lab Schedule:

Please note that lab schedule is for demo+grading and we teach students to think and work independently by doing the labs prior to the lab presentation and grading.

There are 5 lab presentation and grading days, and they occurr on these dates in 2025:

Jan 17, 31;
Feb 14, 28;
Mar 14, + Mar 28th is the end-of-term Symposium.

Here a nice ASCII art table showing lab presentation and grading days in curly {brace brackets}:

first day of classes Jan6; first ECE516 class Jan7; first ECE516 lab Jan 17:
                            2025
      January               February               March          
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa  
          1  2  3  4                     1                     1  
 5  6  7  8  9^10CES   2  3  4  5 *6* 7  8   2  3  4  5  6  7  8  
12-13-14^15 16{17}18   9 10 11 12 13{14}15   9\10/11 12 13{14}15  
19 20 21 22 23*24*25  16  Reading Week  22  16 17 18 19 20 21 22  
26 27 28 29 30{31}    23 24 25 26 27{28}    23 24 25 26 27{28}XRcode Symposium (link)
                                            30 31                 
       April
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1  2  3  4  5
 6  7. 8  ExamsBegin
13 14 15 16 17 GoodFriday=UniversityClosed.
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30

The intro assignment due Jan 24 and Feb. 6 is indicated as "*24*" and *6* in the ASCII art table above. The intro assignment is our way of getting to know each of you. The assignment involves reading the earliest known written work on XR:
"Extended Reality", by Mann, S., and Wyckoff, C.
as well as a more recent (33 years later) article on XR:
"Advancing Technology for Humanity and Earth".

Your objective is to summarize these 2 papers and add in some of your own thoughts. By Jan 24th, please have a rough point-form list or sketch of key points. We'll review and discuss these points, and then you'll complete the summary by Feb. 6th. We're offering some flexibility in how you wish to present your summary, e.g. it can be in HTML (markup), or MD (markdown), Gitlab, or as a contribution to Wikipedia, or instead of text, it can take the form of graphics or drawings, e.g. Inkscape or Blender, e.g. it could be an animation summarizing and showing the concepts. We prefer free open source programs accessible to anyone.

Here's a more full list of relevant papers but you're only required to read the first 2 items on this list; the others are provided for anyone wishing to dig a bit deeper:

[1] Extended Reality, Mann, S and Wyckoff, C, MIT 4-405, 1991, also available at http://wearcam.org/xr.htm
[2] Mann, Steve, Martin Cooper, Bran Ferren, Thomas M. Coughlin, and Paul Travers. "Advancing Technology for Humanity and Earth (+ Water+ Air)." arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00074 (2024), also available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00074
[3] Khan, Samiya. "Extended reality: bringing the 3Rs together." In Extended Reality for Healthcare Systems, pp. 1-13. Academic Press, 2023.
[4] Uğurluer, Simge, and Mert Seven. "A bibliometric analysis of extended reality research trends in communication studies written in English: Mapping the increasing adoption of extended reality technologies." Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences 66 (2024): 147-181.
[5] Pell, Sarah Jane, Steve Mann, and Michael Lombardi. "Developing WaterHCI and OceanicXV technologies for diving." In OCEANS 2023-Limerick, pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2023.
[6] Heemsbergen, Luke. "Reality after the Metaverse." Digital Frontiers-Healthcare, Education, and Society in the Metaverse Era: Healthcare, Education, and Society in the Metaverse Era (2024): 3.
[7] Foster, Sophie, Larissa Barth, and Zaryab Chaudhry. "Virtual Gathering Platforms in Academic Teaching: Potential and Applications." Electronic Journal of e-Learning 22, no. 3 (2024): 124-140.
[8] Mueller, Florian ‘Floyd, Maria F. Montoya, Sarah Jane Pell, Leif Oppermann, Mark Blythe, Paul H. Dietz, Joe Marshall et al. "Grand challenges in WaterHCI." In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-18. 2024.
[9] Hoffmann, Peter. "Das Verschmelzen von Welten und… versen." In Next Generation Internet: Die Verschmelzung von Realität und Virtualität im Metaversum, pp. 27-86. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2024.

ECE1724:

A related course, ECE1724, is not offered this term, but can be taken next academic year 2025/2026.

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