I am on a short trip to Switzerland. I am visiting IDIAP in Martigny to review a NCCR research project in Interactive Multimodal Information Management. The site visit is on Nov. 16 and 17th and I will be back on…
China Trip Nov 2006:4
The last full day of the trip was spent on seeing Shanghai. My company was two young students from Fudan — Lu Wang and Li Xiang. Shanghai is the most intresting city in its development. It has compressed time. So…
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 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: Research in China
Tomorrow morning — on Oct 31 — I am leaving for China. I am giving a keynote talk at the Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia in Hangzhou. I am told that they receive 1500 research papers and accept less than…