Confessions of a researchaholic

August 5, 2015

Good collaborator

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:42 am
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People who are the most important in my life are those who make me better.

I would like to thank Chia-Kai Liang, my collaborator in a light field camera design project.

  • The best kind of research projects has both academic and industry values. He brought me into this very interesting problem, for which our solution turns into a SIGGRAPH paper and part of a next generation Lytro camera.

  • Initially I thought the project is too engineering-oriented for a good research paper. He corrected my blind spot and kept us moving on.
    (I am still learning to walk the very thin line between optimism and pessimism for research.)

  • The project involved heavy workloads in data capture and prototype engineering. He participated and coordinated all these with the product teams and paper co-authors.

  • He wrote the code and paper with me, more closely and more effectively than my previous (excellent) collaborators.

  • I learned several technicalities thanks to him, such as designing light field cameras, using cmake without blowing off our legs, putting python (programming language) to good use, automating speech synthesis for video dubbing, etc.

  • He made sure I started preparing our SIGGRAPH talk before inside the convention center.

I look forward to further collaboration with Chia-Kai in innovating computational photography.

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