Interesting news for face recognition

Brain Has "Face Place" for Recognition, Monkey Study Confirms  Babies Recognize Faces Better Than Adults, Study Says Dogs, but not cats, can readily recognize the face of their handler How animals recognize each other Composites Help Face Recognition Tech

有感于复旦停订SPIE

去年图书馆停订了science online,原因是："鉴于Science Online的涨价幅实在太高太快，本馆的正常经费难以承受"，今天把SPIE也停订了，这是什么世道，这是什么大学！有钱盖没有用的破楼，就没钱买期刊。校领导干脆把生科，光学两个系也给废了算了，复旦真腐蛋

An interesting workshop of CVPR2008

A workshop called internetvision, topics of interest in this workshop are:
Video/image categorization                                  Collaborative video/image annotation
Automatic video/image parsing                              Object recognition in large scale
Interactive video/image parsing                              Video/image recommendation
Image search refinement with visual content           Integrating text and image search
3D reconstruction/modeling in large scale        Visualization of large photo collection
Internet assisted video/image editing                     Video/image-based advertisement
Internet photo quality assessment                     Virtual 3D maps

This workshop is held for the first time, and many program committee are from companies like MS Adlab, Adobe, Amason, Google, IBM, Yahoo. And I think internetvision will become much hotter, for Youtube(Goolge) needs more efficient ways to annotate, organize its videos, and similarly for Flickr(Yahoo), who needs better methods to manipulate its images. Meanwhile, UW has done some researches in 3D modeling in large scale, and maybe it can be intergrated with Google earth by using images offered by Panoramio , which is useful for vitural  3D maps.  Virtual 3D maps  also need improving,  though  Goolgemap introduced street view.   Besides, for these famous  campanies,  video/image-based ad is much more important, especially for Google,  ideas  in this  area will be valuable.  Forgery image detection on internet is also an interesting problem, for there are numerous flat-cats in China..

IEEE简介之搞笑版 zz

电子类工科学生大都知道IEEE, 这个IEEE就像一个大的BBS论坛，而这个协会下面有很多杂志，比如图像处理，信号处理，微波技术等。这些杂志就是论坛下的分版面。每个版面有版主（主编），版副（副主编）等职务。

大学里的教授负责组织人力在IEEE灌水。教授灌的水被别的论坛或版面转载或引用。这就叫坑。大牛教授挖大坑，小牛教授挖小坑。同学们就在这些大坑，小坑中灌水。

水越多的坑，坑就越牛，从而挖坑的教授（坑主）名气也越大。根据挖坑的大小，和水量，IEEE会评选出IEEE senior member (高级坑主)，IEEE fellow (坑王)，IEEE life fellow (终生坑王)。一般同学只要交了注册费就可以成为student member (灌水学员), 毕业后可成为member（灌水员）。

IEEE每个版面一般会举行一年一度的版聚(IEEE symposium)。大家从四面八方聚在一起交流灌水心得。一些坑王会在版聚时介绍挖坑经验(IEEE workshop)。为了鼓励灌水学员灌好水，为成为坑主作准备，版聚设了本年度最佳灌水员奖(best student paper)。

一般灌水在IEEE的发贴区(IEEE sponsored conferences)。有价值的坑或者连环坑经编辑后会保留到精华区(IEEE Transaction).