That is what brings the best out of me.
2015-09-30
2015-09-28
2015-09-25
2015-09-23
Understanding
If you have to describe your understanding to me to see if you really understand it, then you probably don’t.
The only way to know for sure is to produce concrete results.
This is why I like science and engineering, where things can be measured objectively.
2015-09-10
Failure cases
Successes are good, but when I look at them I am not sure what I can learn.
In contrast, when I look at failure cases, I know exactly what to avoid.
I have been considering sharing my failure cases for a while, following some prior examples such as this failure CV.
My paper reviews are not suitable because my co-authors might not be comfortable with sharing and my single-authored papers usually just got in.
Thus, I am sharing all my grant proposals + reviews, funded or not.
To avoid pissing off the funding agencies and to benefit those in real needs, please ping me for the information if interested.
Reviewers
When I was a student I really hated the (paper) reviewers.
Now I love them.
They make me better, and help me train students.
The grant reviewers are another matter though.
I will talk about them in a few years.
🙂
2015-08-27
2015-08-15
2015-08-05
Good collaborator
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.
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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.