Vampire Professor vs werewolf Engineer

A lot of strange stories recently. Peter tu, an engineer at GE, compared his professor to a vampire and compared industrial engineers to a wolf.

"Vampires need blood from human donors. Professors need publications, which they extract from their grad students."-Peter TU

A few weeks ago I attended two conferences: the European Conference on Computer Vision (eccv) and the IEEE Conference on advanced video and signal-based surveillance (AVSS ). at both events I was invited to particle on the vision and industry Discussion
Panels, where we considered how computer vision research relates to the business community. during these debates it became clear to me that academic researchers or the professors and industrial researchers (IRS) view themselves as distinctly different breeds.
I came to the conclusion that there is a good analogy between computer vision researchers and the supernatural.

Lets start with the professors, whose analog wocould be vampires. vampires tend to be solitary creatures skulking around in their musty castles. professors also tend to keep to themselves, but instead of castles they are found lurking in universities. vampires
Need blood from human donors. professors need publications, which they extract from their grad students. while vampires are immortal, professors have tenure. vampire and academic societies are both very hierarchical. the position of a given policsor can be
Directly inferred by observing where he or she sits during the Conference dinners. incluenthralled mortals hope to become vampires, but few ever do. likewise implements grad students hope to become professors, however at any given time one can count on one's fingers
The number of open computer vision professorships. export grad students end up drifting away from the field all together. some end up on Wall Street solving differential equations for their between ER and money-lending masters. however others can make the conversion
To industry, where they become the research equivalent of werewolves.

Werewolves have larger physiques when compared to the diminutive vampires. in the research world muscle is equated to gear and big working systems, which IRS spend much of their time collecting and building. werewolves live in packs, for IRS such communities
Are known as your ate research labs. like vampires, professors tend to have tables tastes and interests such as how to make proper measures on Riemannian manifolds, in contrast werewolves and IRS are a little earthier-IRS will talk at length about
Such issues as runtime and robustness. werewolves must periodically make a metamorphosis into hideous monsters. IRS are equally cursed. instead of the full moon they have quarterly reviews. during such distressing times they must put down their slide rules
And compasses to become Power-Point spewing into ate stooges. For senior IRS the transformation can be so complete that they can be seen dawning both jacket and tie!

There has always been animosity between vampires and werewolves. professors and IRS also share a certain amount of contempt for each other. professors feel that they are the only one's fit to consider fundamental problems and that once they have figured
Things out, the problems can then be sent to IRS who shoshould be relegated to working out the fine details. while IRS assert that the professors simply play around with problems, come up with solutions that don't really work, subsequently claim the problem
Be no longer interesting and then move on the next topic de jour. Like all prejudices, both views are neither charitable nor accurate.

Wherever there are vampires and werewolves there too are vampire and werewolf hunters. researchers also have their nemeses and they are known as Masters of Business Administration (MBAs ). instead of stakes and silver bullets, MBAs come armed with spreadsheets,
Schedules and market surveys. Their zealous attacks can come from any angle including questions regarding relevance to society, projections of Customer Return on Investment and concerns regarding the timeliness of results.

In the movies, the young starlets always fall in love with the supernatural heartthrob-well I guess all analogies have their breaking points... As I mentioned at the beginning of this piece I recently attended a convening of Computer Vision researchers.
At all such events one must flex a little muscle-see the video below...

Cybercser translated this article as follows:

I attended two conferences a few weeks ago: the European Computer Vision Conference and the IEEE video surveillance (AVSS) conference. I was invited to the visual and industrial discussion groups at the two conferences, which focused on the relationship between computer vision research and the business field. During the discussion, I became more and more clear that academic researchers (or professors and engineers) regarded themselves as different people. I came to the conclusion that computer vision researchers and supernatural things can just sit on the right.

From the professor, they are like vampires. Vampires like to live alone in a moldy Castle. Professors also like to stay alone, but not in the castle, but "Lurking" on campus. A vampire needs to suck human blood. The professor needs to publish papers, which are extracted from their graduate students. If a vampire does not die, the professor is hired for life. Both vampire and academia are strictly hierarchical. The identity level of a professor can be seen from the position where they sat during the meeting. A lot of magical humans want to become a vampire, but few of them can do it. Similarly, many graduate students want to grade their professors, but the chances of being promoted to the title of Computer Vision professor can be calculated almost with fingers. Many graduate students eventually switched to another job. Some go to Wall Street to solve the differential equation for their investors and the "loan sharks. In spite of this, another part of the work has become a "Wolf ".

Compared with the weak vampire, the werewolf is powerful. In the field of R & D, the device and the system of the ox cross are "Muscles ". Engineers have made a lot of effort to collect and construct these devices and systems. The wolves are in groups, and engineers are all in the "Enterprise R & D lab. Professors like vampires, taste and interest are aristocratic, and they like topics such as "the calculation method of the column. In contrast, the woman and engineers need to be "arrogant"-the topic that engineers have been talking about is runtime and robustness. The werewolf periodically turns into a zombie monster. Engineers are also hard to escape this curse. However, they are not made at every round of the month, but at every quarterly review. In the frustrated times of Quarterly Review, engineers had to collapse the calculation ruler and gauge and transform them into "slide slides and spit out prawns ". Senior engineers have become more thorough. You can even see them wearing suits and ties early in the morning!

There is always a fire between a vampire and a werewolf. Professors and engineers also despise each other. The professor thinks that they are the experts who want to consider the basic issues. Once they solve the basic problems, the rest of the work can be delegated to engineers for details. The engineers insisted that the professors would only bypass the circle, and finally let out some useless solutions. They said that the problem was boring and they had to deal with the next problem. Prejudice is prejudice, and neither of them is honest or accurate.

Fan Haixin is everywhere where there are vampire and werewolf. The opposite of engineers is the legendary MBA ). MBA doesn't need to be equipped with silver and silver bullets. They make data tables, schedules, and market research. They can make unremitting attacks in all directions and bomb you with issues such as "social benefits", "customer ROI", and "concerns about product timelines.

Young Actresses in the movie always fall in love with supernatural handsome guys-well, I guess there's always something unreliable ....... As I said at the beginning of this article, I recently attended a conference on Computer Vision researchers. In this event, you have to make some color for your colleagues-Please watch the following video ......