ITK/Fall v4 2010 Meeting

The ITKv4 Fall meeting is set.

• Dates: November 8-10, 2010
• City: Iowa City, IA
• Location: Hotel Vetro

We will meet all day on Monday November 8 and Tuesday November 9. A half day finishing around 1pm is scheduled for Wednesday November 10.

Travel Information

The closest airport to Iowa City is the Cedar Rapids / Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) which is about 20 minutes from the hotel.

Airport Shuttle Services

The easiest way to get from the airport to Iowa City is via one of the shuttle services:

• Airport Shuttle Service (Phone: 1-800-725-8460)
• Airport Express (Phone: 319-626-5466)

Both are the same price and easiest to book before travel. The cost is roughly $60 round trip.

Rental Cars

Rental cars are also available from the Airport. The following companies have desks at the airport

• Avis
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-331-1212
  • Local Phone : (319) 366-6418
• Hertz
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-800-654-3131
  • Local Phone : (319) 365-9184
• National and Alamo
  • Website
  • Toll-Free Phone : 1-888-826-6890
  • Local Phone : (319) 363-0249
• Enterprise
  • Website
  • Local Phone : (319) 366-5522

If you have any questions regarding travel, feel free to contact Joe Ekdahl either via e-mail(joe-ekdahl@uiowa.edu) or phone (319-384-3026).

Hotel Information

We reserved a block of hotel rooms at Hotel Vetro at a rate of $139. The group code to get this rate is ITK-V4. These rooms will be held at this rate until October 22.

• Hotel Vetro
  • Phone: 800-592-0355
  • Address: 201 South Linn Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

Other hotels that are close to the conference site, University of Iowa, and downtown include:

• Sheraton hotel
  • Phone: 319-337-4058
  • Address: 210 South Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240
• Iowa House Hotel
  • Phone: 319-335-3513
  • Address: 125 North Madison St, Iowa City, IA 52242

Registration Information

Registration is now open for the ITKv4 Fall Meeting.

1. Goto the ITK-v4 Fall Design Meeting
2. Select the Register Now link
3. Select the Create an Account

This will take you through the registration process. There will be $125 fee for registration. We are also planning on a dinner Monday dinner that is optional and will be $10.

Meeting Room

We will be meeting in the Plaza 1 room.

Meeting Agenda

THE AGENDA HAS BEEN MODIFIED

Essential Topics

• Modularization (Bill Hoffman)
  • Testing strategy
• Simple ITK (Dan Blezek, Bill Hoffman)
  • Its Wrapping (Alex Gouaillard, Gaetan Lehmann)
• DICOM (Dan Blezek, Mathieu Malaterre)
• GPU Acceleration (Won Ki)
  • Pipeline Refactoring (Jim Miller)

Monday November 8

Morning

• 8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast
• 8:30am - 9:00am Welcome (Terry Yoo)
• 9:00am - 9:30am Status of the Toolkit (Hans Johnson, ISC President) (Slides)
• 9:30am - 10:00am Integration Plan - Software Process (Luis Ibanez, Bill Hoffman, Marcus Hanwell)
  • Coordinating Topic Branches
  • Coordinating Code Reviews
• 10:00am - 10:30am Break
• 10:30am - 12:00pm Modularization (Bill Hoffman)
  • Prototype (Bill Hoffman)
  • Dependencies (Bill Hoffman)
  • Suggested Partition (Xiaoxiao Liu, Luis Ibanez)
  • Documentation of independent modules (Luis Ibanez)

Afternoon

• 1:00pm - 3:00pm Simple ITK (Dan Blezek, Bill Hoffman) (Slides)
  • Review Survey (Jesus Caban - Slides, Gabe Hart - Slides)
  • Design Discussion (Dan Blezek, Bill Hoffman)
  • Its Wrapping (Alex Gouaillard, Bill Hoffman)
• 3:00pm - 3:30pm Break
• 3:30pm - 5:30pm GPU Acceleration (Won-Ki - Slides)
  • Design Plan
  • Pipeline Refactoring (Jim Miller)
    • How other classes need to be modified

Dinner

• 6:30pm - 1206 Plaza Towers

Tuesday November 9

Morning

• 8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast
• 8:30am - 9:00am ITKv4 - Planning (Luis, Hans)(Slides ODP,PPT,PDF)
• 9:00am - 9:30am Updating Examples: The Wiki Way (Luis, Channeling Bill Lorensen and David Doria)(Slides ODP,PDF,PPT)
  • VTK Wiki Examples
• 9:30am - 10:30am DICOM (Bill Ryan, Mathieu Malaterre) (Slides PDF, ODP)
• 10:30am - 11:00am Break
• 11:00am - 12:00am Spatial Objects (Sean Megason, Arnaud Gelas, Luis Ibanez)

Afternoon

• 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch

• 1:00pm - 1:45pm Filters Refactoring (Brad Lowekamp)
• 1:45pm - 2:30pm Registration Framework Refactoring (Brian Avants)
• 2:30pm - 3:15pm Level Sets Framework Refactoring (Arnaud Gelas)(Slides)

• 3:15pm - 3:45pm Break

• 3:45pm - 4:30pm FEM Refactoring (Vince Magnotta) (Slides)
• 4:30pm - 5:15pm Video / Time series support (Patrick Reynolds, Patrick Cheng)(Slides ODP,PDF,PPT)

Wednesday November 10

Morning

• 8:00am - 8:30am Breakfast
• 8:30am - 10:30 Git/Gerrit Workshop (Marcus Hanwell)
  • Hands-on practical exercises on Git/Gerrit
  • Discussion about software process and improvements
• 10:30am - 11:00am Break
• 11:00am - 11:30am Migration Guide (Gabe Hart, Hans Johnson)
  • Online System
  • Workflow (Slides)
    • User Driven Perspective
    • Developer Workflow
    • Automation
• 11:30am - 12:00pm Testing Framework CDash@Home (Zach Mullen)
  • Testing Data (Git / MIDAS) (Zach Mullen,Patrick Reynolds)
  • Google Test Framework (Dan Blezek) (Proposal)

• 12-1pm Lunch

Afternoon

• 1:00pm - 1:30pm Doxygen crowdsourcing fixes (Luis Ibanez, Arnaud Gelas)
• 1:30pm - 2:00pm Software Guide Update (Luis Ibanez)
  • New generation of Examples
  • Use the Wiki like VTK ?
• 2pm Adjurn

Unallocated Topics

• • Partition & assignment of tasks to groups proportional to funding.
• 10:00am - 10:30am Coding Style (KWStyle/Gerrit) (Brad Lowekamp, Hans Johnson)