How a freelance engineer can read a dissertation on his own (1 / n)
Since I became a member of society, I started reading papers when I needed to, but I still have a lot of confusion. In recent years, while fields such as deep learning and machine learning have been put into practical use, If you want to access the latest information, you will often have to unravel your dissertation.
Meanwhile, how should I investigate when there is a field I want to investigate? How should we grasp the flow of the entire field, etc.
It's all about self-education, but I'd like to introduce it little by little.
1. Watch the flow from the thesis author
First of all, when I find a paper that interests me, the one written at the top is the author following the title.
I would like to think about what can be understood from the author's name.
There was a reference page, so I will introduce the URL. Reference page
About 5-10 authors of a paper, usually about 5-10 people are the authors of one paper. Of particular importance are the first author, corresponding author, and last author.
| First author First author |
The person whose name comes first in the author list. It is normal for the person who mainly researches the dissertation to write the dissertation. Recently, there are an increasing number of cases where multiple people become the first author, saying equally contributed. |
|---|---|
| Second author Second author |
The person whose name comes second. It is considered to have the second highest contribution after the first author. In many cases, there are seniors who taught experiments and young teachers who provided guidance. |
| Contact author Corresponding author |
A person who is in a position to be contacted as the person in charge of the research. Also responsible author. It is also the job of the corresponding author to carry out a series of procedures related to posting and contact co-authors. |
| Last author Last author |
Also known as a senior author. The person whose name is at the end of the author list. Usually the boss of the laboratory. Although it often overlaps with the Corresponding author, it may become the corresponding author when a young researcher independently conducts research in the course. |
This seems to be that Charles R. Qi, Hao Su is the First Author.
Therefore, let's examine the First Author and Last Author of this paper.
As of May 2020 Charles Ruizhongtai Qi: Seems to be on Facebook. Hao Su: He seems to be an assistant professor at UC San Diego. Leonidas Guibas : He is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, head of the Computational Geometry Group, and a member of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence.
The following profile pages were found respectively.
If you search for papers based on these three people, you can see the flow of segmentation using 3D data as follows.
Of course, it is necessary to read other researches from the abstract, introduction, related work, and reference of the paper, but the author's name alone can give a rough idea.
As the latest papers are updated steadily, it is really important to watch the flow while organizing information. I think I have to work hard every day.