Code for database and frontend of webpage for Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyond.

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{xie2021neuralfield,
    title = {Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyond},
    author = {Yiheng Xie and Towaki Takikawa and Shunsuke Saito and Or Litany and Shiqin Yan and Numair Khan
    and Federico Tombari and James Tompkin and Vincent Sitzmann and Srinath Sridhar},
    booktitle = {ArXiv Pre-print},
    year = {2021} 
}

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.