ModernCV LaTeX template

Recently, my home department requested all graduate students to provide a self-evaluation and an updated curriculum vitae. I then found a very nice and clean LaTeX template called ModernCV (Link). Here is what the CV looks like.

I then spent some time filling out my information in this format. During this process, I am inspired from many people with awesome CV (e.g., Jianxiong Xiao). Finally, I am satisfied with the result. If you would like to modify your CV from mine, you can download the Tex source file here (Link). 

Raskar's Idea Hexagon

Ramesh Raskar, professor in MIT Media Lab, presented in TED this inspiring talk on "How to Invent?" Along with many concrete examples, he described how we can invent new technologies using a principled way.







I found this idea very interesting. Thus, a few years ago, I tried to summarize some of the works in my research field using this approach. Check out my slides.

How to come up with new research ideas from Jia-Bin Huang

Face inversion impairs your holistic perception

It is well known that our ability to recognize a face or an object will significantly degrade when inverted images are presented. This video is an excellent demonstration of this effect.  You simply cannot recognize what the painting is about until he revealed the upright one.






Resources:

• Face and object recognition across upside-down inversion
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Demonstration of Forced Perspective

I found two excellent demonstration videos of forced perspective recently. 


The first one is by Richard Wiseman . He demonstrated how to use optical illusion to make objects appear smaller or larger than they actually are. Photographers also use this trick to create context in their photos. See What makes a creative photograph for some examples.

The second one comes from Brusspup. I like the way that he showed camera zooming in before revealing the truth. Apparently, seeing is not believing.

Resources:

• Forced perspective wikipedia

• What Makes a Creative Photograph?

• Richard Wiseman

• Richard's website has a lot of interesting videos, e.g., bets you always win, that you don't want to miss!

• Richard's Youtube Channel

• Brussopup's Youtube Channel

My New Personal Website

As my original web host server netfiles.uiuc.edu is longer available, I transferred my personal webpage to www.jiabinhuang.com.

Here are a few links on my personal website that you might be interested in:

• Computer Vision Resources
• Collection of computer vision algorithm implementation, tutorials, and video lectures.
• Computer Vision Genealogy Project
• List of people in computer vision
• A Guide for Applying Graduate School in USA
• Step-by-step for graduate school application
• Course materials
• Resources I collected while taking courses in UIUC
• Slides of my recent talks
• How to come up with new research ideas?
• How to read academic papers?
• What makes a creative photograph?

The Deep Learning Saga

This is a hilarious video presented at the NIPS'2010 workshops banquet for the Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning workshop. Deep learning has drawn great attention in recent year in the machine learning community as well as other areas such as computer vision and speech recognition. This video gave a nice overview of the development in the area. 

Resources:
- Deep learning: with reading list, dataset, software
- Geoffrey Hinton: professor in University of Toronto 

Saliency Detection via Divergence Analysis

This post is a shameless self-promotion.

Two weeks a ago, I gave a talk on visual saliency detection on the International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Tsukuba, Japan. This is my very first work in graduate school. In this work, we provide explicit connection among various existing bottom-up saliency detection algorithms. Therefore, through a unified perspective, one can better understand what the quantities defined in many works really mean.

Saliency Detection via Divergence Analysis: A Unified Perspective from Jia-Bin Huang

The most important qualities for success in graduate school by Prof. Bill Freeman

Bill Freeman, professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in MIT, gave a 10 min talk on the topic "The most important qualities for success in graduate school" this April. Instead of giving only his opinions, he crowd-sourced the talk from MIT Computer Science faculty and other CSAIL researchers. If you are a junior MS or PhD student, you should definitely would like to check it out!

Here is the link to the slide [PDF].

Website Collection for Nerds

If you were/are a PhD student, you will find the following websites hilarious. 

1. Research in progress: http://researchinprogress.tumblr.com/

2. The PhD Comic: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

3. xkcd: http://xkcd.com/

4. Abstruse Goose: http://abstrusegoose.com/

Seven Falls @ Colorado Springs

終於來到了會議的最後一天，下午就要離開風景優美的Colorado Spings了，趁著早上還有幾個小時，我們四人在會場吃完早餐之後，決定前往距離市中心僅僅10分鐘左右的景點Seven Falls

進入園區後歡迎我們的，是完全不怕人的小松鼠們。

誰找我？

松鼠傻愣愣的樣子實在是太可愛了 XD

道路兩旁是聳立的岩壁