Dear Office of International Programs, International Experience Funding Committee,
I would like to share my insights on attending 15th Workshop on Graph-based
Representations in Pattern Recognition between May 13-15, at Beijing, China.
The workshop was held in Beijing, China, for the first time in this workshop's history
being held outside of Europe. GbR workshop has always been a meeting place for the
leaders of the pattern recognition community to exchange ideas and better know each
other. This year was no exception.
I had the privilege of knowing leading professors in the field in person, such as Prof.
Marcello Pelillo, Luc Brun, Andreas Fischer, and many others. The keynote speech from
Prof.Pelillo was specifically worthy of attending. Meeting fellow PhD students from all
over the Europe was another good aspect of joining the workshop. Feeling the dynamism
that they have in the first place was an invaluable experience. During the three days of
the workshop, there had been several valuable presentations that I benefited from. As for
my own presentation which was titled “Multilayer tree matching using HSTs”, I took a
lot of positive feedback both from the professors and fellow students. Question and
answer session of my presentation was beneficial for me to gain further insight on future
research directions.
Another good aspect of this meeting was that several researchers asked for me to share
my code with them, which I and my adviser Prof.Shokoufandeh was already planning
and working on for some time. Making the code publicly available will not only make
our research widely known, but also make our Drexel in general and our newly formed
College of Computing and Informatics in specific more visible in the community.
Overall, I personally benefited a lot by attending this workshop both in terms of the
experience that I gained and the people that I had the privilege to meet. I am quite sure
that the bridges that were set during the workshop will serve me and our department in
the years to come.
Once again, I would like to thank the Office of International Programs for financially
supporting me for attending this workshop.
Sincerely,
Yusuf Osmanlioglu
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
College of Computing and Informatics