ECCV 2010 highlights

Today is the last day of ECCV 2010, so the best papers are already announced. Although I was not there, a lot of papers are available via cvpapers, so I eventually run into some of them.Best papersThe full list of the conference awards is available here. The best paper is therefore "Graph Cut based Inference with Co-occurrence Statistics" by Lubor Ladicky, Chris Russell, Pushmeet Kohli, and Philip Torr. The second best is "Blocks World Revisited:...

Dogen Zenji on Nutritionism

Dogen Zenji was the man who brought the Soto lineage of Zen Buddhism to Japan. He was a prolific writer, and many of his texts are respected both inside and outside the Soto Zen community. Last week, my Zen group was discussing the Genjo Koan, one of his works that is frequently used as a chant. Here's an excerpt. It may seem cryptic but bear with me:...when you sail out in a boat to the middle of an ocean where no land is in sight, and view...