Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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..