shankar2k's Journal: I'm Off!

At 12:00 noon today, I will be flying to Beijing for the 2005 International Conference on Computer Vision. My research group submitted four papers to the conferences, and three papers were accepted, and of those I am the first author on one and second author on another! The paper that I'm first author for is called Segmentation of Hybrid Motions via Hybrid Quadratic Surface Analysis, and it was accepted for oral presentation. That means I get to give a talk to the whole conference about it. It turns out that my talk is the first talk of the entire conference! So that means probably everyone attending the conference will be there, and they will probably be very alert and attentive. No pressure!

The truth is, I've never been more nervous about something in my life. Nope, not even the Qualifying Exam or my Master's Thesis. I've never any good at public speaking, and it just gives me the jibblies. Apparently, I'm not as bad at it as I think. What makes it difficult is I've been studying this work for over a year, and yet I have to make an audience of over five hundred understand the key ideas in twenty minutes. So I have to be thorough, yet, concise, while being intuitive and not talking too fast. Whew!

It's a good thing overall though. That which doesn't kill you ... right? It will be nice to get the whole thing over with. Wish me luck!

Oh yeah, if you want to see some really complicated equations, and some pretty pictures, check out my presentation. If you find any typos, e-mail me immediately!

let's start here

[dominator2010]

First off, you spelled your name wrong. You forgot the 2k silly. And I don't know what that is after your name. Some kind of nickname? Then in the presentation it mentioned principal curves and surfaces. Isn't it supposed to be principle? And you had all these funny shaped models. Where are the boobs? I was expecting boobs and now I'm demanding them after reading the words principal curves and surfaces. Lastly, your homography algorithm seems to be off. I saw some 31, 32, 33's in there, but what about the 4

Re:let's start here

[shankar2k]

Thanks for the suggestions. Actually it is principal (as in "primary"), not principle (as in "rule"). My advisor yelled at me when I used the latter.

Unfortunately, as I will post shortly, no one got to hear my oral presentation.

Congrats!

[dexterpexter]

Have fun in Beijing! Be sure to get out and do at least one crazy thing while you're there, or visit at least one nice restaurant. :)

May your presentation go smoothly.

Re:Congrats!

[shankar2k]

As I will soon explain, lots of crazy things have already happened, and its only been two days into my trip!

Thanks for your support!