Neural Fields in Visual Computing—Complementary Webpage

This is based on the amazing MiniConf project from Hendrik Strobelt and Sasha Rush—thank you!

Citation

If you find our project helpful, please cite our review paper:

@article{10.1111:cgf.14505,
    journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
    title = {Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyond},
    author = {Xie, Yiheng and Takikawa, Towaki and Saito, Shunsuke and Litany, Or and Yan, Shiqin and Khan, Numair and Tombari, Federico and Tompkin, James and Sitzmann, Vincent and Sridhar, Srinath},
    year = {2022},
    publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
    ISSN = {1467-8659},
    DOI = {10.1111/cgf.14505}
}

Adding a paper—How To

See our website instructions

Website Team—Get Started on Development

> pip install -r requirements.txt
> make run

When you are ready to deploy run make freeze to get a static version of the site in the build folder.

Deploying to Github

• Define two command-line variables GH_TOKEN and GH_REF. GH_TOKEN is your Github personal access token, and will look like username:token. GH_REF is the location of this repo, e.g., $> export GH_REF=github.com/brownvc/neural-fields-review.
• DO NOT add GH_TOKEN to the Makefile—this is your personal access token and should be kept private. Hence, declare a temporary command line variable using export.
• Commit any changes. Any uncommited changes will be OVERWRITTEN!
• Execute make deploy.
• That's it. The page is now live here.

Tour

The repo contains:

1. Datastore sitedata/

Collection of CSV files representing the papers, speakers, workshops, and other important information for the conference.

2. Routing main.py

One file flask-server handles simple data preprocessing and site navigation.

3. Templates templates/

Contains all the pages for the site. See base.html for the master page and components.html for core components.

4. Frontend static/

Contains frontend components like the default css, images, and javascript libs.

5. Scripts scripts/

Contains additional preprocessing to add visualizations, recommendations, schedules to the conference.

6. For importing calendars as schedule see scripts/README_Schedule.md

Extensions

MiniConf is designed to be a completely static solution. However it is designed to integrate well with dynamic third-party solutions. We directly support the following providers:

• Rocket.Chat: The chat/ directory contains descriptions for setting up a hosted Rocket.Chat instance and for embedding chat rooms on individual paper pages. You can either buy a hosted setting from Rocket.chat or we include instructions for running your own scalable instance through sloppy.io.

• Auth0 : The code can integrate through Auth0.com to provide both page login (through javascript gating) and OAuth SSO with Rocket Chat. The documentation on Auth0 is very easy to follow, you simply need to create an Application for both the MiniConf site and the Rocket.Chat server. You then enter in the Client keys to the appropriate configs.

• SlidesLive: It is easy to embedded any video provider -> YouTube, Vimeo, etc. However we have had great experience with SlidesLive and recommend them as a host. We include a slideslive example on the main page.

• PDF.js: For conferences that use posters it is easy to include an embedded pdf on poster pages. An example is given.

Semantic Scholar API

Contact: Joe Gorney, Manager - Strategic Partnerships, Semantic Scholar, ph.206.548.5606 | joeg@allenai.org See project email account neuralfields@cs.brown.edu for more detail.

Google Analytics API

Keyword Statisics, Citation Graphs

• Keyword Statistics: The keywords are generated by a JS script (paper_vis_statistics.js line 13-58) running on the front end every time this page is loaded. So yes they will change correspondingly when papers' data is updated.

• Citation Graphs: Data for drawing citation graphs is generated by running script scripts/SemanticScholar_generate_citation_graph.py while deploying. I don't think our semantic scholar authentication token will expire.