On a nice day to travel, I took a train from Hangzhou to Shanghai. Lu Hong had already arranged a ticket. The trip went very smoothly. Train stations are clean, modern, well equipped, and as most stations are — crowded. …
China Trip Nov 2006:3
China Trip Nov. 2006: 2
Now I have attended a very well – almost perfectly — organized conference, spent some time as a tourist, and been to a University. China is definitely very clean and well organized. It does compare well to most countries that…
Pacific Rim Multimedia COnference: Day 2
Today Tsuhan Chen gave a keynote on ‘Marriage of Signal Processing and Machine Learning’. His research is trying to bring the two fields together. He does have some interesting ideas. Tsuhan is a very energetic fellow and is involved in…
Pacific Rim Multimedia Conference: Day 1
The first day at the conference was very interesting. Â The day started with a 30 minute opening session and had two key note talks. Â There were lots of papers in all aspects of multimedia ranging from retrieval to coding. Â Suddenly…
China Trip Nov 2006: 1
After a long flight I reached Shanghai. The airport – at least the arrival side and the immigration and the customs, were clean and efficient. Surprisingly at the time I arrived they were not even crowded. I was out very…