逐渐模糊的回忆

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我没有记忆

经朋友介绍
用一天的时间看完了 “孤岛少年的盛夏纪事”
作者是那天晴

马来西亚的作家
很道地的文字
充满着马来西亚的情感

马来西亚年轻人时下对爱情的价值观
在作家的笔下
是那么的真实平凡，却又那么的无奈

笔者把这本书献给所有对大学怀着梦想的年轻人

大学，就是趁年少輕狂的时候，干些疯狂事
套书中一句话 ：“十八到二十二岁这段期间，决定了你们将来一辈子”

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打了两个包

昨天，考了我人生中在大学第四年第一张，也会是最后一张的 final paper : Image Processing
虽然 Open Book, 可是完全找不到答案，更别指望能在短时间内Google 那么多次，题目难更不在话下了（当我在偷瞄了四周围后，发现master student 正在很努力的抓头时，我已经知道，这个考试 ，实在是太爽了）
朋友A说 ：太有挑战性了！
朋友B说 ：Spot 的题目一题都不中。。
朋友C说 ：还好我完全没读书。。哈哈。。

而我呢？
唉。。收拾心情面对接踵而至的考试咯。。今天是另外一科， 更加刺激，也是OpenBook, Open Laptop。。Test 1 时已经领教过了。。 结果。。。全班过一半分数的，少过十人。。。

大学degree 最后一堂课

今天 中午 12pm， 对于我很多coursemate 来说，意义非凡
因为今天是他们的人生的大学生涯degree 里最后一堂课
也因为这样，大家都很‘踊跃‘ 的去 faculty 感受一下上课的滋味
可惜， 讲师却放飞机 = )

朋友 X : 人家难得好像很有感觉，很有 feel 酱来学校，你看看你老师。。。 显咯
朋友 Y : 耶，老师没有来，Come on, 拍照

结果，大家在那一间小小的课室里， 拍了将近半小时 =.=

很多 coursemate 都很感慨，
说什么， 没有机会了，不舍得， 很显，要做工了，忽然失去生活目的了

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一啖沙糖一啖屎

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Feeling Guilty

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这女人是谁？

有人认识这女人是谁吗？

我想读过 Image Processing 的学生都应该不陌生

对了！！
她就是常常出现在不同的书本里
每个 Image Processing method 就会拿她的尊容来做分析的俏丽女郎

而我也很好奇
她究竟是谁？
经过我Google 了一下，发觉她还蛮出名的

她的真名叫 Lena Söderberg , 瑞典模特儿，　
而这张照片，就是在1972 年11 月为PlayBoy 杂志拍的其中一张

而她的粉刺还特地为她作了首诗呢

Sonnet for Lena
O dear Lena, your beauty is so vast
It is hard sometimes to describe it fast.
I thought the entire world I would impress
If only your portrait I could compress.
Alas! First when I tried to use VQ
I found that your cheeks belong to only you.
Your silky hair contains a thousand lines
Hard to match with sums of discrete cosines.
And for your lips, sensual and tactual
Thirteen Crays found not the proper fractal.
And while these setbacks are all quite severe
I might have fixed them with hacks here or there
But when filters took sparkle from your eyes
I said, “Fuck this shit. I’ll just digitize.

by Thomas C

而现在的我更好奇了
为什么她这张照片会被选为Image Processing 主要的分析照片呢？
我又Google　了一下发现
这张照片背后原来有个好笑的故事

下面这整段故事我就不翻译了

Jamie Hutchinson in an article in the May 2001 newsletter of the IEEE professional Communications Society writes about the pictures history.

Alexander Sawchuk estimates that it was in June or July of 1973 when he, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI), along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague’s conference paper. They got tired of their stock of usual test images, dull stuff dating back to television standards work in the early 1960s. They wanted something glossy to ensure good output dynamic range, and they wanted a human face. Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy.

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer. The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512 × 512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject’s shoulders.

A more amazingly amusing account that even discusses the debate regarding the picture can be found on the page of DAVID C. MUNSON, JR. of the CMU here.

An excerpt from his writing.

I think it is safe to assume that the Lena image became a standard in our “industry” for two reasons. First, the image contains a nice mixture of detail, flat regions, shading, and texture that do a good job of testing various image processing algorithms. It is a good test image! Second, the Lena image is a picture of an attractive woman. It is not surprising that the (mostly male) image processing research community gravitated toward an image that they found attractive. The Woody Allen buffs among you may be interested to know that the Lena image appeared in the movie Sleeper. Tom Huang pointed this out to me. In the scene where Allen awakes in the year 2173, he is asked to identify a number of artifacts from the past, including photographs of Joseph Stalin and Charles de Gaulle, and the issue of Playboy Magazine containing Lena.

and regarding the debate he writes:

Well, quite understandably, some members of our community are unhappy with the source of the Lena image. I am sympathetic to their argument, which states that we should not use material from any publication that is seen (by some) as being degrading to women. I must tell you, though, that within any single segment of our community (e.g., men, women, feminists), there is a complete diversity of opinion on the Lena issue. You may be surprised to know that most persons who have approached me on this issue are male. On the other hand, some informal polling on my part suggests that most males are not even aware of the origin of the Lena image! I have heard feminists argue that the image should be retired. However, I just recently corresponded with a feminist who had a different point of view. She was familiar with the Lena image, but she had not imagined that there could be any controversy. When I offered an explanation of why some persons are offended by the use of the image. she responded tartly. A watered-down version of her reply is, “There isn’t much of Lena showing in the Lena image. This political correctness stuff infuriates me!”

呼~~ 暂时的完毕

终于考完唯一的一张 test 2 paper 了

只是暂时哦哦。。。

接下来的还有：
毕业论文
Assignment x 1
Presentation x 1

在大学里浮浮沉沉了很多年
对眼前的考试，功课， 不知所谓的讲师
腻了，真的累了

为何厌倦呢？
当Lecturer给你做一个Assignment， 而那个Assignment 是他的Research Title, 他只是利用你来帮他完成他的Research Title ... 这样的讲师， 倦吗？

当Lecturer 出的考试题目是完全没教过的，然后还有好戏在后头， 你说， 显吗？

算了，就来挨完了
睡个午觉，醒来又是一条龙 =)