虽然你不认识我，但我一直在关注你，余老板 （另附：Li Fei-fei的 English Paper）

太巧了，前两天转载的本文，昨天就看到了李飞飞原来是大牛啊 并且是机器学习，深度学习领域的大牛，真是太巧了。

另外在推荐几个大牛：行业内人工智能领域的大牛  Andrew Ng  ,百度IDL余凯，格灵深瞳CTO赵勇，香港中文大学教授、SenseTime创始人汤晓鸥，这三个人算是学术上的超级大咖，同时又在做落地的产品, 计算机视觉领域的大牛Li Feifei..

 http://www.zhihu.com/question/30974212/answer/50153564  知乎上论余凯离职，余凯真的为带动了中国的人工智能发展。

虽然你不认识我，但我一直在关注你，余老板

知道余凯离职，真的很惊讶，我是一直崇拜余凯的，他让我记下的第一个印象就是他的微博名字 西二旗农民工，大牛原来都如此低调，百度IDL不是很火呀，怎么离职了呢，很难猜透大牛的内心到底想的啥，离职很是伤感；但让我惊喜的是余凯要创业，并且是机器人行业，做大脑芯片，落地的产品（机器人 大数据 3D打印 这三个终究我都想去从事的行业）以后改叫余老板了 ，求带走啊

另外从这个知乎上也得知阿里，腾讯也办了 人工智能研究院 ，，百度联合组建Distributed Machine Learning Common开源平台；另外 美国那边的 谷歌大脑，即google X 实验室；微软的类似的深度学习系统名叫Adam(亚当)；突然感觉人工智能是风口，各互联网公司都想在未来得到一席之地，作为小农的我，也在努力的往前赶，再不赶，真的拉下来了

阿里巴巴IDST（Institute of Data Science&Technologies）包括了机器学习、大数据挖掘、自然语言处理、移动搜索、多媒体识别等领域；美国西雅图、硅谷、北京、杭州两岸四地；里面的大牛：来自普渡大学计算机系和统计系的终身教授、全球机器学习顶级会议ICML 2014 和 ICML2015 的领域主席漆远，他擅长机器学习和人工智能；来自美国密歇根州立大学的终身教授、曾担任NIPS、SIGIR等顶级国际会议领域主席以及KDD、AAAI、IJCAI等顶级会议高级程序委员会委员金榕，他重点研究包括分布式信息检索、机器学习、多媒体数据处理与挖掘等。还有涂子沛。。最近搞各种数据竞赛 “天池”“xxx”，

 Li Fei-fei写给她学生的一封信，如何做好研究以及写好English Paper

 

De-mystifying Good Research and Good Papers 

By Fei-Fei Li, 2009.03.01 
 

Please remember this:  
1000+ computer vision papers get published every year! 
Only 5-10 are worth reading and remembering! 
 
Since many of you are writing your papers now, I thought that I'd share these thoughts with you. I probably have said all these at various points during our group and individual meetings. But as I continue my AC reviews these days (that's 70 papers and 200+ reviews -- between me and my AC partner), these following points just keep coming up. Not enough people conduct first class research. And not enough people write good papers.  

 

- Every research project and every paper should be conducted and written with one singular purpose: *to genuinely advance the field of computer vision*. So when you conceptualize and carry out your work, you need to be constantly asking yourself this question in the most critical way you could – “Would my work define or reshape xxx (problem, field, technique) in the future?” This means publishing papers is NOT about "this has not been published or written before, let me do it", nor is it about “let me find an arcane little problem that can get me an easy poster”. It's about "if I do this, I could offer a better solution to this important problem," or “if I do this, I could add a genuinely new and important piece of knowledge to the field.” You should always conduct research with the goal that it could be directly used by many people (or industry). In other words, your research topic should have many ‘customers’, and your solution would be the one they want to use. 

 

- A good research project is not about the past (i.e. obtaining a higher performance than the previous N papers). It's about the future (i.e. inspiring N future papers to follow and cite you, N->\inf).  

 

- A CVPR'09 submission with a Caltech101 performance of 95% received 444 (3 weakly rejects) this year, and will be rejected. This is by far the highest performance I've seen for Caltech101. So why is this paper rejected? Because it doesn't teach us anything, and no one will likely be using it for anything. It uses a known technique (at least for many people already) with super tweaked parameters custom-made for the dataset that is no longer a good reflection of real-world image data. It uses a BoW representation without object level understanding. All reviewers (from very different angles) asked the same question "what do we learn from your method?" And the only sensible answer I could come up with is that Caltech101 is no longer a good dataset.  

 

- Einstein used to say: everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Your method/algorithm should be the most simple, coherent and principled one you could think of for solving this problem. Computer vision research, like many other areas of engineering and science research, is about problems, not equations. No one appreciates a complicated graphical model with super fancy inference techniques that essentially achieves the same result as a simple SVM -- unless it offers deeper understanding of your data that no other simpler methods could offer. A method in which you have to manually tune many parameters is not considered principled or coherent.  

 

 - This might sound corny, but it is true. You're PhD students in one of the best universities in the world. This means you embody the highest level of intellectualism of humanity today. This means you are NOT a technician and you are NOT a coding monkey. When you write your paper, you communicate  and . That's what a paper is about. This is how you should approach your writing. You need to feel proud of your paper not just for the day or week it is finished, but many for many years to come. 

 

 - Set a high goal for yourself – the truth is, you can achieve it as long as you put your heart in it! When you think of your paper, ask yourself this question:  Is this going to be among the 10 papers of 2009 that people will remember in computer vision? If not, why not? The truth is only 10+/-epsilon gets remembered every year. Most of the papers are just meaningless publication games. A long string of mediocre papers on your resume can at best get you a Google software engineer job (if at all – 2009.03 update: no, Google doesn’t hire PhD for this anymore). A couple of seminal papers can get you a faculty job in a top university. This is the truth that most graduate students don't know, or don't have a chance to know.  

 

- Review process is highly random. But there is one golden rule that withstands the test of time and randomness -- badly written papers get bad reviews. Period. It doesn't matter if the idea is good, result is good, citations are good. Not at all. Writing is critical -- and this is ironic because engineers are the worst trained writers among all disciplines in a university. You need to discipline yourself: leave time for writing, think deeply about writing, and write it over and over again till it's as polished as you can think of.  

 

 - Last but not the least, please remember this rule: important problem (inspiring idea) + solid and novel theory + convincing and analytical experiments + good writing = seminal research + excellent paper. If any of these ingredients is weak, your paper, hence reviewer scores, would suffer.