[osg-users] Request for assistance to embark into PhD
Hello, Being a software engineer, I did my final project study in 3D animation and virtual reality visualization using OpenSceneGraph. Today I want to prepare my thesis in augmented reality. I'm looking for a good topic to prepare in 3 years. What are the themes of current research linking OpenSceneGraph and augmented reality? can you suggest me some possible topics ... for my future thesis? Thank you in advance ! Alji Mohamed ALJI Blog http://aljilogy.blogspot.fr -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=56939#56939 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Request for assistance to embark into PhD
Hi, On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Mohamed Alji osgfo...@tevs.eu wrote: ** Hello, Being a software engineer, I did my final project study in 3D animation and virtual reality visualization using OpenSceneGraph. Today I want to prepare my thesis in augmented reality. I'm looking for a good topic to prepare in 3 years. What are the themes of current research linking OpenSceneGraph and augmented reality? can you suggest me some possible topics ... for my future thesis? Thank you in advance ! Alji Speaking as someone who did a PhD in virtual reality/computer graphics before, I think you need to look at it from a different angle. Don't look at What topic I can use OSG for. That isn't really interesting at all from a research point of view - OSG is a technology, a tool if you want. If you start with that, you are putting yourself into a really difficult position later on when you will have to explain your actual research contribution in your thesis. We engineers often fall into a trap of building contraptions - but that is engineering, not research. Find an open problem in AR and try to solve that. If you can use OSG to help you, great. If not, well, tough, but the research is the first goal, not to use OSG. I suggest that you speak to your future thesis director (did you find one already?) first - they could help you both by having an overview of the state of the art in the field you are looking at and by knowing what the requirements for a good thesis are. Good luck! Jan ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Request for assistance to embark into PhD
Hi, Very good point, you are right. OSG is a technology , I have to see it as a tool in my research. Where can I find an open AR problem ? where am I supposed to look ? How to do that ? ps: I found a thesis director, I will speak to him later today. Thank you! Cheers, Mohamed Mohamed ALJI -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=56944#56944 ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
Re: [osg-users] Request for assistance to embark into PhD
Hi, On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Mohamed Alji osgfo...@tevs.eu wrote: ** Hi, Very good point, you are right. OSG is a technology , I have to see it as a tool in my research. Keep that in mind - it is easy to slip into the engineering mindset and just do some coding or whatever - but that isn't really research and a lot of people get burned by that. They arrive to the thesis defence with a mountain of code, but nothing really new, scientifically speaking. Where can I find an open AR problem ? where am I supposed to look ? How to do that ? Well ... I think that the best thing to do is to look for books, papers, theses etc. in the field you want to work in. That will give you the idea what is known and is considered the state of the art. It takes time, because you must first understand the field sufficiently to essentially know what you don't know :) Then you can pick a problem to work on. Your thesis advisor/director and senior researchers in the lab you are going to do the doctorate at could help you a lot there. Typically they might have a topic or problem for you to work on already. Also don't worry too much about the topic you may be asked to write on your PhD application - one usually puts there something extremely generic, because you won't know a good problem to work on before you have done about a year of research in the field! ps: I found a thesis director, I will speak to him later today. I think that is the best thing to do. J. ___ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
