ECE516: Intelligent Image Processing

Schedule		Labs		Philosophy		Opportunities		20-Year ECE516 History

Schedule for January 2026

Lectures Wednesdays 12-3
Labs selected Mondays 12-3

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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 Wed. 12noon lecture, starting 2026 January 7th; Mon. 12noon labs (every other week, starts date TBD). The intro assignment is due Fri. Jan 24th (interleaved to avoid lab dates). Office hours take place in the lab/class or outside the room on the 4th floor or ground floor in the building immediately after each lecture, or by arrangement. Professor Mann is also available for an informal meetup Sundays 12noon at PeterStreetBasin.com or HTObeach.com (Join, if you like, for a cold-water swim ... why? ... or join our volunteer PeterStreetBasin CleanupCrew.) Here's a nice ASCII-art graphical/tabular layout of the schedule:
Time Mo Tu We Th Fr 9h 10h 11h 12h Lab Lec 13h Lab Lec 14h Lab Lec
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 Mondays in 2026:

Jan12,26; Feb9,23; Mar2.

The Mersivity-2026 Symposium is Mar30 with Rehearsal Mar16 and Dress Rehearsal Mar23.

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

First day of classes Jan6; first ECE516 class Jan7; first ECE516 lab Jan 12:
                            2026
      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   1  2  3 "4" 5  6  7   1 {2} 3  4  5  6  7 AsFeb4;LabMar2
 4  5  6 .7. 8  9 10   8 {9}10"11"12 13 14   8  9 10 11 12 13 14
11{12}13.14.15 16 17  15 -writing week- 21  15(16)17 18 19 20 21 Rehe+tail19-23
18 19 20 21 22 23 24  22{23}24 25 26 27 28  22(23)24 25 26 27 28 DressRehearsal
25{26}27 28 29 30 31                        29[30]31             Mar30 Symposium
.7.Michael guest lec+Brayden
.14.Jeanne guest lec

       April
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1  2  3  4
 5 {6} 7  8  9 10 11  Exam Review because last day of classes is Tues. Apr. 7
12 13 14 15 16 17 18  Exam date TBD.  Don't book any travel April 9-30th!
19 20 21 22 23 24 25  Don't book any travel April 9-30th!
26 27 28 29 30 -----  Don't book any travel April 9-30th!

May 1st: clear to travel...

The intro assignment due Feb. 4 is indicated in quotes, as "4" 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 (1991) on XR:
"Extended Reality", by Mann, S., and Wyckoff, C.
as well as last year's December Symposium Proceedings.
Quickly read through the intro (first 20 pages) and then pick one paper from page 21 onwards to read. Additionally, read any two of the 10 XR papers from the reading list below. Alternatively, with permission of the instructor (S. Mann), you may substitute any or all of these for other papers relevant to your personal interests, research, etc., as long as they're relevant to the course. (You may also similarly substitute any or all of the prescribed labs with your own choice of project or the like, with permission of the instructor, e.g. to ensure relevance to the course.)

Your objective is to summarize these two papers and add in some of your own thoughts, in the context of the Mersivity Proceedings and the original 1991 XR paper.

By Feb. 4th, 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. 11th. 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 the list of relevant papers you might like 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]"Mersivity: Wearable Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Extended Reality for Humanity and Earth"
[4] Khan, Samiya. "Extended reality: bringing the 3Rs together." In Extended Reality for Healthcare Systems, pp. 1-13. Academic Press, 2023.
[5] 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.
[6] Pell, Sarah Jane, Steve Mann, and Michael Lombardi. "Developing WaterHCI and OceanicXV technologies for diving." In OCEANS 2023-Limerick, pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2023.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] 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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