Meeting

Collect two papers, go through the introduction part then go to my superviser's office to report what has done this week. Whoo, a week passes so quickly. Recall what have done is nothing except homework.

Everyday, from moring to evening, just homework. Till now, still geometry and decision making homework are on the plan. Gosh, just 3 classes, I feel it much busy than last four years in undergraduate school, where each term facing 8-9 or more classes, but that time never feel this busy.

Really different teaching ways. Every class, you must go through a lot of materials to understand what you learn on the class.

Oh, fall into the complaint again. Ok, stop!

First about the English class:
Our group-work last class got "Great work" from our Ms. Lee. That's the organization of work is really clear. Copy it here:
Tow economic reasons contribute to loyality switching of athletes - payment and training conditions. Some athletets switch loyalities for high salaries as others. In addition, they desire to be trained at top facilities and by top coaches. Furthermore, their switches are finallically supported by the International Olympics Committee and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Analyse: 1) The first is called meta-disclosure( maybe written in this way, or maybe not this word, I just remeber the pronounciation seems like this one), which tells the reader what will be addressed next. Then expand each aspect-payment and training conditions. Finally, extent it to international support.

Four rules must be followed in Summary Writing:
1) At the beginning, use the source sentence to identify the source article you are summerizing. Three ways:
a) In "...", (Name) (Year) states...;
b) (Name) (Year), in "...", states...;
c) According to "...", (Name) (Year) states...;
2) use reporting verbs and that clause;
3) never use mention in summary;
4) use summary reminder phrases when the summary gets longer. Also you can use it frequently to distance yourself from the author.

About the meeting afternoon:
What I should focus on is Defromation, Animation, Modeling, Character. Expecially the deformation and modeling.
Some kinds of survey papers can give me the background of certain kind of topics, it's a good way to go through them.
Try to learn more about the dual quaternion skinning.
Collect source code of papers, it will be useful in my future work.

Animation

Traditional animation technic: Linear blend skining.
A new way: Dual quaternion skinning.

A good SVM book: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods