October 12, 2010

Rome, Padova & CLEF2010

Banyak bende nk tulis tapi xtau nk start dr mane...hmm sudah agak lame xmenulis... ini disebabkan terlalu banyak bende yg serabut dlm kepale otak ini.. Alhamdulillah everything getting better...Kenape serabut?? disebabkan risau xtentu pasal pasal our Europe trip last September..Alhamdulillah everything went well...best tapi penat...
We start the journey on 16th September at 3am to Rome by Qatar Airline..transit kat Doha airport.. I loike Qatar Airline.. even me bring along both heroes, boleh dikatekan the flight is confortable..of course lar budak2 meragam..tp xseteruk mane..still boleh handle.. the bassinet, the food We reach Rome at 1.30pm local time...It was nice shiny day...then directly go to our Bibi & Romeo Bed & Breakfast... The room is quite small for 5 of us but still ok.. Sampai bilik semuer kepenatan & treus tidur..
Next day baru ler start berjalan ke Vatican City (its just a walk distance from our place)..Then afternoon we went to Rome mosque (used to be a church) for friday pray... our cleaner (Abdul)at b&b was a bangladeshi & muslim..so he guide us to the mosque..sementara tunggu hubby semayang kitorang p melantak nasi kat pasar2 luar masjid tuh..Later we met a chinese muallaf lady (Khadeja) at the mosque who volunteered to be our tourist guide.. Abdul & Khadeja showed us how to go to Trevi Fountain & Spanish Step.. really enjoy it!
The next day we went to designer outlet..unfortunately it was raining that day.. For those yg pernah pergi outlet almaklumlar its just deretan kedai & tiada beratap..so bile hujan tuh terpaksa lar kami berlindung di food court sampai me myself xde mood nk bershopping.. :( manage to buy innerwear & a pair of shoes shj...
The next day is our flight to Venice. Then from Venice we take a cab to Padova. Padova ni tempat conference CLEF 2010 yg saya nk pergi... the conference held at Universitas Studii Paduani.. I really love staying at Padova.. The accomodation, surrounding, kedai shopping nyer smuer best2!!! Apartment yg kami rent sgt selesa & byk kemudahan...plus the owner sgt baik hati.. the owner lend me her bike so its easier for me to go to the conference.. it was so joyful riding a bike at very nice place.. saye rase saye the only person in Padova who wear hijab during cycling.. org local pon pelik tgk me bawak bicycle kat area diorg..heheheh it was such a good experience & memory...
About the conference..Alhamdulillah dapat banyak ilmu baru..especially on extraction features..okies..before the conference was held, the organizer had given us sample of dataset...so we download the dataset & apply it using our method and then evaluate based on their criteria... so during the conference there are lots of discussion on which method the best & still how to improve for better performance.. since the dataset is a compilation of images and textual information based on HTML script. Most of the applicant used textual feature for retrieve & classify..ade juga yg combine both textual and visual.. but for those yg use only visual feature result in poor performance... why?? thats the question i need to prove that using visual also can produce better performance using different method & solution.
What I like the most about this conference, they already have guideline in evaluation of every run system submitted.. Therefore its easier for me to compare the result of my run system with others without developing or running their system..Isn't that great?? tp yg xbest kalau result kite poor than them...but thats wat we call research kan!! klu lg teruk mesti cr jalan to improve the result kan!!! owwwhhh i'm so sexcited to complete my run system & compare with them!!!!
hopefully can get better result & submit for CLEF next year.. dgr2 cite nak buat kat Greek plak.. SV disayangi, boleh saya pergi lagi?? hehehehhe
Meanwhile I need to practice present for my proceeding paper conference tomorrow...yer saya sgt gile conference..hehehe Journal satu pon tadak lagi!!! aduih!!!! ini just small conference held in U*M...dibiaya sepenuhnyer oleh diri sendiri.. pergi ni pon nk cr potential examiner.. hopefully dapatlar new knowledge and good networking... Actually I do believe with networking... lg bagus your networking lagi mudah untuk u buat kerja & mengembangkan ilmu anda...chewah!
So oklar..ade mase lain nanti saya sambung lg cerite tentang Europe trip saye yang Paris & London..but seriously, saya sgt jatuh hati pada Italy.. InsyaAllah ade rezeki lebih I will definitely come again..boleh x berangan nk pergi dgn hubby jer mcm honeymoon.. heroes tinggal dgn nenek yek!!! hehehehe
Gambar?? sile refer pada Facebook saya yek..
Till then..muah! muah!

6 comments:

miSs inTerpReted said...

babe...walaupon tak berkaitan nak jugak cerita, i have a classmate who's from padova!!!!

neway, have fun kat conference. aku pon sekarang dok cari conference jugek. :)

Oyis said...

mmg musim conference ni. kita pon pening2 lalat nak kejar deadline $%^&*$#@! <-- pening, bkn mencarut

best la tgk gmbr awak kat FB jln2 sesambil conference. bagus ada dataaset khas, and criteria utk compare, tp result mesti mau kaw2 la. x pe insya Allah u can do it. di bidang music classification pon ada std dataset n result crieteria dia, TAPI... hanya bole dpt kalo kita enter contest classification dia (MIREX). maknanya, awak kena bawak algorithm & program awak, on the day, on your mark, get set, go.. terus extract and classify. by the end of the 24 hours, judges akan tgk result awak. peserta with result paling tepat menang, siap ada hadiah lg. so mmg x leh tipu2 la sbb on the spot. tp aduhai, byk nya la masalah techinical kan kalo nak buat real-time mcm tu. plus, kita x tahu setakat mana best nya program kita selagi x test kan sana, kang perasan best, skali enter, hah... nombor paling corot, lebih corot drpd tahun2 lps kang sudah! tu yg x masuk2 tuh ngeh ngeh...

MRM said...

I've seen your Europe pictures,best! best! Terus rasa macam nak pi jalan2 Europe lagi :P Any that trevi fountain sangat cantiklah!

Setuju dgn Noris. Bila dah ikut standard experimental setting ni, memang result obviously kena higher than the comparable methods. It's not as easy as it seems BUT it's also not impossible. One of my contributions followed the standard experimental setting. it took me about 5 months just to obtain an improved version, dok la pusing sini sana the calculations and also playing around with the various parameters. Rasa nak give up and do other contributions instead pun ada but memikirkan dah spent so much time so continue je la, Alhamdulillah, dapat la juga akhirnya but berzamanlah :D

So kalau ko tengah godek2 and result tak better than the standard ones tu, do remember that as long as you have perseverance, anything is possible! InsyaAllah :)

yzmahoney said...

noris: a ah yg CLEF ni pon mcm tue..actually kene anta run system and compared each other than rank mane yg lbh baik.. kite rase ini adalah pertandingan yg sihat..mmglar malu kalau kite nombor yg corot tp on the bright side at least kite tahu kelemahan bile gune method kite & method lain lbh baik so blh improvise method yg lbh baik itu or combine dgn method kite utk lbh jd baik... so it easy to learn more knowledge regarding our research field kan..plus the research is not on the competition but the journey of getting more & more knowledge to obtain our PhD..
mas: 2la ni tgh menggodek2 jgk ler nih..byk aku miss pandang mase LR & br belajar kat conference so skrg aku tau weakness system aku nih & tgh improvise..but still xtau better ke x dr yg existing nih...huhuhu

tp yg plg penting aku syayang korang2 sebab senantiasa bg aku nasihat & semangat!! rase mcm nak nangis..Love u all darling!!! mas bile nk dating?? tunggu ina blk yek??

Oyis said...

wah jeles jeles. korg dah plan2 nak dating2 ye. mesti best kan reunite dgn ina. tiba2 terasa lonely plak bila pikir ina dah nak balik. walhal dia duk bristol x de la slalu jumpa pon, tp dlm kepala ni rasa cam dkt je, and senang nak call etc. i miss u guys too! *hugs*

MRM said...

*14 oct* - Ina sure tengah suspen ni menunggu vivanya, hehe.

Kita dgn Hizma ni nama aje buat PhD dekat2, tapi sangatlah jarang berjumpa Noris, harapkan jumpa online je la selalunya. Ni nak dekat hujung-hujung ni lagi laaa jarang jumpa sbb masing2 dok terhegeh2 terkejar dgn kerja :D

Syoknya la sorang2 dah nak start balik ni. Ina lapor diri bila ek? Btw orait, kita berdating tunggu cik Mek tu baliklah, buat 'welcome home' treat untuk dia sekali, yey!