ICCV 2015, Day 1

Posted on Mon 14 December 2015 in Computer Vision

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 is growing, and this ICCV is the largest so far …


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Ten Tips for Writing CS Papers, Part 2

Posted on Thu 10 December 2015 in Computer Science

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 content aligns well with the formal structure because the formal …


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Ten Tips for Writing CS Papers, Part 1

Posted on Sun 29 November 2015 in Computer Science

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 be read in 10 or 20 years from the time …


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History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 3

Posted on Fri 13 November 2015 in Statistics

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 to look at Markov chain Monte Carlo.

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History of Monte Carlo Methods - Part 2

Posted on Fri 30 October 2015 in Statistics

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 Monte Carlo.

The video files are also available for offline …


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