Sebastian's slow blog

  • ICCV 2015, Day 1

    Sebastian Nowozin - Mon 14 December 2015 -

    ICCV 2015, the International Conference on Computer Vision, is one of the premier venues for computer vision research, together with the CVPR conference. This ICCV is happening in Santiago, Chile, a beautiful city with amazing food.

    The computer vision community …


  • Ten Tips for Writing CS Papers, Part 2

    Sebastian Nowozin - Thu 10 December 2015 -

    This continues the first part on tips to write computer science papers.

    6. Ideal Structure of a Paragraph

    A paper has different levels of formal structure: sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences. It is important to ensure that the structure of the …


  • Ten Tips for Writing CS Papers, Part 1

    Sebastian Nowozin - Sun 29 November 2015 -

    As a non-native English speaker I can relate to the challenge of writing concise and clear English. Scientific writing is particularly challenging because the audience is only partially known at the time of writing: at best, the paper will still …


  • History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 3

    Sebastian Nowozin - Fri 13 November 2015 -

    This is the third part of a three part post. The first part covered the early history of Monte Carlo and the rejection sampling method, the second part covered sequential Monte Carlo.

    Part 3

    In this part we are going …


  • History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 2

    Sebastian Nowozin - Fri 30 October 2015 -

    This is the second part of a three part post. The last part covered the early history of Monte Carlo and the rejection sampling method.

    Part 2

    In this part we are going to look at importance sampling and sequential …