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June 30 写在CVPR08之后Alaska拥有我未曾体验的美与震撼，但长达30+30小时的辗转旅程多多少少为此行大打折扣。一直以为美国学者不愿让CVPR出美国主要是为了节约开支，现在倒觉得主要是为了躲避这颇不舒坦的旅程。
Anchorage 这座城很像Urbana-Champaign, 简朴而不华丽。此行的焦点多多少少牵系雪与冰，从Extended Stay Hotel 的窗户望去，远处即是冰雪覆盖的群山；此行的主要活动除了开会就是坐小型飞机降落到了冰川上（颇为震撼，见下图）。Anchorage的地理位置特殊，基本成了太阳不落之城，深夜11点了太阳还能播洒点点余晖，早上不到4点，天已大亮。
此次会议有幸多中了几篇文章，但是最开心的还是见到了这么多已经半年或者一年未见的老朋友，还有很多新朋友。额外的收获是一路抽空有幸做了一次文学青年，读完了余秋雨的<<千年一叹>>。余老师的古文明探索之旅可谓惊险，而感触最深的是他的对古文明的一个简短总结：两千五百年前，希腊哲人在大海边思考人与自然的关系，印度哲人在恒河边思考人与神的关系，而中国哲人在黄河边思考人与人的关系。我个人的解读倒觉得雨老师和凤凰卫视组织的这次旅程颇像一个淘气孩子离家出走的全过程。开始在希腊和埃及，贪婪地拥抱那些保留尚可的古文明遗迹；等到了伊朗，巴基斯坦与印度，面对战争的恐怖与贫穷的哀伤，有点手足无措以致极度低落；等到了尼伯尔，看到祖国的喜马拉雅山，狂喜与眼泪交织在一起，心底大喊一声: 祖国 (母亲)，今天我终于及时赶到。
最后要祝贺Shan Shiguang和Chen Xilin老师拿到了CVPR08 Best Student Poster Runner-up Award， 还有Quan Long老师拿到了CVPR08 Best Student Poster Award。
March 17 Thinking at the coming of the 60-th paperCVPR07 is so so for me this time, and only two papers were accepted. But I am happy that my 60-th paper comes as "Element Rearrangment for Tensor Based Learning", CVPR'07. I still remember that my 40-th paper came as a ECCV'06 paper, and it is about fourteen months ago when I worked in Hong Kong.
What can I conclude from these 60 papers?
1. Many guys often have exciting conclusions after a period of research, and even build models on how to prepare for an excellent paper. But here I would like to share a somewhat abjective opinion: paper acceptance is a radom process, at least for relatively senior but not highly senior researchers. The facts often validate this abjective opinion. I often encourage Huanzi that we only need believe our work is excellent, and can be accepted by top conference sooner or later :-)
2. After having stayed in Tom's group for eleven months, I am trying to change my research style from publication-driven to application-driven. If the research is only for paper, what is the value and why should we do it?
There are much much more that I would like to share, but the ICCV deadline is coming. Let me continue after the 70-th paper.
October 27 The 10-th Transaction PaperToday is a special day for my research career, and I get the 10-th transaction paper from T-CSVT.
It is pretty important for a researcher to transform a research work into a transaction paper, which defaultly contains the detailed information of a work such that the readers can reimplement the work.
When I was in MSRA, conference papers are more important than transaction papers. After I moved to CUHK, I realized that it is significant to get papers published in transactions, especially for an acedemic career.
Learned a lot from Prof. Liu, Tang, Huang, Yang, Kwok, Dr. Steve, Hongjiang and many many others. Sepcial thanks to you all here from the bottom of my heart! September 20 Heart Report -- 1It was a long time that I did not have the desire to write anything here.
It is the time to think about something in depth.
I am trying to find something that will have great impact in literature.
Paper was ever the only target of my work, and now I am trying to be more powerful in other aspects.
Life is changing, and idea is changing.
July 23 UIUC的三种动物UIUC坐落在一个小镇上，被辽阔的平原所环绕，土地肥沃，颇适合种玉米，所以有“玉米地“之别名。
我家位于Urbana一个安静的街道，周围最最常见的动物有三种：
1. 松鼠。第一次有机会近距离观察可爱的小松鼠，柔软飘逸的尾巴，袖珍的利爪，确实可爱。每次我想再近一点去触摸它，它便箭步爬到了树上，那速度和平稳度绝对超乎人的想象。
2. 兔子。这边的兔子普遍怕人，只能远观，所以不曾像松鼠那样观察的仔细。
3. 火鸡。一公一母经常出没在我家不远的体育场的边上，第一次看到活的火鸡。
这三种动物，第一感觉是他们怎么那么幸运，竟然没有人拿来烤了吃（好像小玉米都会问这个问题  ），特别是前两者特别适合家庭的小作坊。火鸡则有很多趣闻，据说有几位女生被火鸡追赶和骚扰的经历，但是不管老玉米还是小玉米，讨论的最多的还是感恩节是否可以用他们代替超市的处理好的火鸡。July 16 恭喜Huanzi中MM欢子属于专业的钢琴“家” ，我有时不是很明白他为什么要做研究，绝对的人才浪费：）
和欢子合作的时间可谓不短了，可是过去半年多格外邪门，连最基础的会议都能被砍掉。
也许是欢子的本命年已过，好运来了，虽说只是一个ACM MM的短文，但是终究一个好的开始。愿欢子好运不断......
June 01 UIUC 研究状态小结到这40天，基本还在为CUHK的工作扫尾，现在发现根本没完没了，好多要做的，只有一件一件来了。
这40天，中了2篇ICPR的paper, 不过真是不好意思，人家Shiguang Shan一下子中了12篇，让我一直没勇气说自己投了ICPR.
这40天，中了3篇Transactions, 一篇TPAMI, 一篇TIP, 一篇TCSVT(合作的)。 终于有了自己第一篇第一作者的TPAMI, 多年的结终于解了。
这40天，投出去了2篇Transactions, 希望好运降临到这些paper上。
当然好事之外还有好些不爽的事：
UAI06被拒了，天经地义了，根本不合拍的东西；
Huanzi的ICPR06被拒了，听到这个消息真想大骂一顿，后来听Wu Ying说了一句"Random lah, we did not take the CVPR this year too seriously"， 也就不了了之了；
英语还是那么烂，这也是我们找House的原因，和周边的人能有机会多接触接触；
UIUC 40天生活小结到UIUC已经40多天了，简单小结一下哦！
环境： 环境非常好，古树成荫，空气质量绝对一流。房子大，生活设施也很齐全。
购物： 没有车比较不爽，不过我们的Apartment在Country Market附近，所以购物还比较方便。
消费: 高，确实高！！！手机的family plan是税后将近70没刀，将近600人民币啊；水电气大概120美刀。唯一好处是房租比美国别的地方便宜不少。 没有唐人街，只有Fareast和Korea店。
娱乐：基本空白，至少对于大部分华人是这样。我们还凑合，出去BBQ了两次，跑到了Indiana州去了,开了将近两个小时的车。Illinois就是一个平原，平，真是很平....
教会： 香槟华人教会，俗称CCCC。 基本没有耽搁任何时间，我们就开始了周五的Bible Study和周日的主日崇拜。很有意思的是这边每月有两次爱宴和Potluck。
研究: 风格和MSRA及CUHK不一样，人人平等 （当然除了Tom以外 ：） ），没有所谓的semi-supervision的关系。 当然对我这个懒人来说，不好的地方就是得自己开始努力coding了。不过有Yuxiao和Jilin帮忙，我想coding应该也能提高不少：）
期待： 刚刚签了一个Duplex型的 House，很漂亮哦，估计Liangliang要流口水了，这个懒人竟然不愿剪草坪就去住Apartment了：） 还有就是要买辆好车，这样我就马上成了穷光蛋了！嗬嗬
ICML 2006 结果中了一篇, 直接Accepted！期待Day能凭借这一篇开始自己出国留学的生涯。
第一次见到这么认真仔细的Area Chair， 这是我见过的最认真的审稿程序。ICML确实不一般，今年投稿>700, 收稿140篇. 和NIPS比较起来，我更喜欢ICML, 原因很简单，NIPS的审稿不是double-blinded，像我们出身“寒门”的小字辈备受冷落！真希望NIPS也能Double-blinded以圆我多年的心愿！
看到Area Chair给Huanzi 的paper公正的评价真是happy, 期待这篇被某个会议接收！
March 07 ICML 2006 Rebuttal刚刚受洗，就要开始为ICML2006 rebuttal了!
看起来结果还凑合，估计刘老师修改的那篇应该希望很大，其他的得看Area Chair脸色了！这好像和CVPR06差不多哦!
比较可惜的是 Huan Zi 这一篇估计够呛了，不过我相信这是一篇极好的paper, 不中是因为我们太匆忙了，相信下次应该没问题！ Huan Zi 加油！
March 06 New-born Life (Mar. 05, 2006)After three year's fellowship life, we couple, Simon and Michelle, were baptised on March 05, 2006, by Chaplain, Dr. Andrew Wai Man NG, at the Chung Chi College Chapel of the Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong.
Thanks god to give new lifes to us two!
February 28 CVPR06结果9：30才醒来，迷迷糊糊的打开电脑，CVPR一向有早出结果的毛病！
结果还不错，Area Chair花了不少功夫，我的完全follow我的准则的paper虽然分数不高，还是被接收了！
和Xu Dong合作的，没有什么意外，估计Area Chair看过我们CVPR05的paper, 给了Poster.
和Dahua Lin合作的，倒是很意外，Area Chair给了ORAL, 和ICCV05被拒的时候相比没有太大改动，Area Chair真是给足了面子：）
这样下来，CVPR06中了3篇，和CVPR05是没法比了，不过也不错了，要不就是“严重灌水“了，名节还是很重要的！
最开心的是Tianqiang Yuan和我的合作那篇中了，完全follow我的准则，谢谢Area Chair的慧眼！ February 10 CVPR2006 Rebuttal这段时间真是累啊，还没缓过神来，CVPR的Rebuttal又来了。
现在看来Dong Xu的这篇是绝对保险了，其他的看样子还要看Area Chair的脸色了。
遗憾的是完全Follow我的准则的paper得分不算太高，下次吧！毕竟Dong也说我的那篇其实比他的那篇还要好：）
什么时候我能像Steve那样，每篇基本都是ORAL呢，任重而道远啊！
February 09 After ICML06春节过得真是热闹，与家人团聚本来就够热火朝天的啦，ICML06还恰好终结于期间。
这是第一次真正准备正式涉足Machine Learning领域，颇感紧张；这次有两篇paper颇费了点功夫，两者都是完全follow我的准则:
Each problem that I solve should become a rule which serves afterwards to solve other problems.
这次最要感谢的人是欢子了，勤劳肯干，任劳任怨。还有James给了我不少启示和帮助。
如今是一个多元化的社会，各个国家的需求和目标总是在变化之中，全面的知识是适应社会需求变化的保证。
January 10 The 40th paper comesI have waited such a long time for the coming of the 40th paper; and it finally comes from ECCV06 with no accompanier.
I extremely like this paper, because it is really solving problem, not A+B or extensions, which follows my proverb:
Each problem that I solve should become a rule which serves afterwards to solve other problems.
Now, I do not care how many papers are accepted, I care whether I really did something contritbuting to machine learning literature.
Shiguang told me that his favorite paper was rejected, yet other paper was unexpectedly accepted. I think it is possible, since there are so many CV researchers who are thinking about how to write a paper, not just how to solve a problem.
Chaochao's paper was unbelievably rejected; I think the reason is that the reviewers cannot follow your paper with so many mathematics at all. It is the reviewer's fault, not yours.
Daijuan's paper was also rejected; the negative reviewer was so funny, producing a false review based on his/her theory that the k-nearest neighbors of one point include itself.
Actually, as Prof. Tang said, the results are somewhat random, so do not too much care about the results.
All my friends, continue your steps, and you will get what you want!!!!
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