Some experience on research

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Some experience on research
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Outline

• Paper reading
• Paper writing

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Paper Reading

• Build up a homepage to organize the source
• Paper list group the paper you have read into
  different categories
• Useful website
• Important journal and conference relevant to your
  research
• Some leading groups in your research field
• Database
• Other useful source

http//mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/wxg
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Paper Reading

• Some figure or table is also helpful. example
• Journal and conference paper
• Find classical and most important work, complete
  reference from Journal paper (detailed but with
  delay)
• Follow the recent development from most recent
  conference

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Paper Reading

• What should be noticed
• Ideas that have been implemented by others
• Problems remaining unresolved, and weakness for
  each method
• The relationship among different methods
• How to do experiments? How to select database?

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• Once you have some idea, write it down. Writing
  will make the idea clear and help next step
  thinking
• Repeat state-of-the art algorithms on your data
  set. Experiment is always important.

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Paper Writing

• Once you have a primitive idea and some
  experiments, you can begin to write a paper. You
  can leave some parts of this paper uncompleted.
  Writing paper can help you improve your idea

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Paper Writing

• Before writing a paper, collect relevant papers
  to learn
• Background
• How to formulate the problem
• How to present the experiments
• Learn some sentences, words.

Introduction
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Paper Writing

• Outline your contribution (paper structure)
• Begin to write
• Presentation is clear
• Sharpen the idea and contribution (Figure is
  helpful to explain your idea)

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Paper Writing

• Revise
• Read relevant paper
• Further improve the method
• Do more experiments
• Better understand the problem and your
  contribution
• Opinions from reviewers

This may be a long-time procedure. Your idea and
paper from naïve to well developed
The final version can be completely different to
the original paper, but the first is always
important

• Learn how to revise a paper from your supervisor.

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Other points

• More discussion with supervisor leads more
  improvement
• Exchange idea and knowledge with others