Bar Midori

http://www.kyoto-midori.com/

One day if you visit Kyoto, this is a great place to relax :)
(English okay)

personal webpage

http://u.csie.org/peggychi

welcome!

current publication

• Pei-yu Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Hao-hua Chu, Bing-Yu Chen. Enabling nutrition-aware cooking in a smart kitchen. in ACM CHI 2007 extended abstract, April, 2007. (pdf)
  (acm portal)
  
• Pei-yu Chi, Jen-hao Chen, Shih-yen Liu, Hao-hua Chu. Designing smart living objects - enhancing vs. distracting traditional human-object interaction. in Proceeding of HCI International 2007, July, 2007. (also Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (pdf)
• Jen-hao Chen, Keng-hao Chang, Pei-yu Chi, Hao-hua Chu. A smart kitchen to promote healthy cooking. Poster Paper & Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UBICOMP 2006), California, September, 2006. (pdf)

blogger beta

very impressive!!!
finally labels can apply!
(I should update more from now on!)

in Google now!!!

so thrilled!!
my third time here, wow!!!

academic info

For all academic info or thoughts, I will post over this only:
Peggy's Paper Wonderland
Enjoy it :)

What I am/will be busy for this half year

• March:
• GRE AWA
• driving license
• April:
  
• Midterm
• LongtermSmile contest
  
• May:
  
• (5/3-12) Ireland for Pervasive2006
• (5/27-6/1) Tokyo for Birthdays
  
• June:
  
• graduation
• GRE
• Nightmarket2006
• final exams
• July:
  
• (6/27-7/11) Tokyo for my love
• YEF contest
• LongtermSmile contest
• Aug:
• YEF contest final
• research
• Sep:
• (8/27-9/7) Tokyo for my love
• LongtermSmile contest final
• (9/17-21) Ubicomp2006 conference @Orange County, CA
  
• Oct:
• (9/25-10/7) visit Stanford,MIT, and more with YEF
  

Try my best to do everything well!

In Thailand

Now I'm in Thailand airport, waiting to transfor.
This trip to Ireland is really wonderful, and I do learn a lot through the conference.
Write more after arriving home!

[Ubicomp] I'll leave for Ireland this morning

for the conference Pervasive2006
Very thrilled about it!

Ireland is also the 10th foreign country to me.
Bon voyage, Peggy!

First overnight discussion...

in building of CSIE in NTU.
From 4/26 9am to 4/27 9am
Still awake... T___T

Google Calendar

It seems Google Calendar is a very good design.
I especially like the property that users can own different calendars at a same time and share with others :)
Interesting!

= MIT week =

Last week was amazing to me, very interesting and meaningful.

(3/27-3/28) MIT T-party workshop @Quanta
Thanks to our advisor, Hao, for providing such a wonderful chance: Hao, 創文, 超哥 and I attended a workshop hold by Quanta and MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), with an event/project named T-party.Topic of the first day was about trusted computing and virtual storage (by Devadas, Sarmenta, van Dijk) and second day was Natural Interaction (by Zue, Glass, Seneff, Davis, and Darrell); both had presentations and demos. There was also an idea seminar each day: High-subjective-quality Displays and Cameras by Prof. Fredo Durand, and Syntax-Free Programming by Prof. Rob Miller.
I am not sure if I can describe details in public, maybe better not. Anyway, this is my first time to attend an international workshop about computer science. I am really excited about it! All the topics are very interesting and somehow related to what we’ve learned before. This feeling is quite nice: I can sense I am absorbing as much as I can in a short period of time, and felt very fulfilled after each section, even addressed some questions. So nice!

(3/31) MIT Sloan and NTU Roundtable conference @NTU campus
(4/01) Having fun with MBA students :)
Because of our ex-president Pegasus introducing us to MIT Sloan School of Management, I hosted this event as the current president of ASES-Taiwan.
This group was formed by 2 MIT Sloan professors, Neal A. Hartman and Catherine Gamon, and 25 MBA students, visiting mainland China, HK, and Taiwan for 10 days.
On 3/31, they came to our campus (thanks Michael for helping us borrow a perfect roundtable conference room in EE building#3) for a one hour conference with 35 NTU students, discussing about business-related issues.
The very next day, 4/1, I went to Dansui to take them to Taipei101 with Jane Li. On the way on MRT, we really chatted a lot, about research, life, interests, anything. Then Kaity, from Stanford, came to join us afterwards – to the observatory and food court. It’s very honorable to me to talk with so many outstanding students in the world… wow! They are all energetic and friendly, with wide knowledge and insights.
There is one point I feel interested: ome of them were CS engineers for several years, and then take MBA degree to learn more about management to be a great leader. Although now I am not interested in management at all, and always try to escape anything about it, will I follow this path as well? It’s possible :) My life always brings me lots of surprises!

Four-Legged robot soccer game

Yesterday the program sponsered by BMW in Discovery channel introduced the SONY AIBO robot soccer game - that was REALLY exciting!
Oh my god, the team programmed really well, natural and intellegent. They even set a rule to exchange blue/red team clothes to be fair for vision processing :p The winner of RoboCup last year is from Newcastle Robotics Laboratory. Gosh... hope I can have a chance to watch the game personally!
I only saw two AIBOs in person - ERS-311B in Sony ExploraScience in Odaiba, year 2002, and ERS-7 this Feburary here. At the beginning I didn't think this was a great idea - to have a robot doggy, however, now AIBO really rocks!

Face recognition comes to photo albums

Cnet News
I like this idea. Sometimes I need to find a certain person among hundreds of pictures, but can only get it according to my memory. Face recognition has lots of beneficial applications, and now it should be closer to our life. Btw, last summer I consulted with the COO (? I have to recheck) of Google India in Singapore summit, with a question that are they trying to apply object recognition to Google image search? (Or users may see a pig when they search a dog just because the file name is related to dogs.) The answer is yes. I expect it comes out soon.

Microsoft Origami

Microsoft Origami Project
Today I just know what does “Origami” really means in Japanese – “折り紙” - quite interesting. When I heard of this several days ago, I wondered why they use such a Japanese name (the news I was didn't explain it). However, I am wondering where their target market is… At first I think it’s quite cheap as a computer, but if it’s for working, it’s too small to use; if it’s for entertainment, it’s too expensive. And it seems several hardware companies have different explanations. Anyway, we will see.

Think with your feet

News from CNN.
"Computer scientists in Microsoft Corp.'s research division have developed a color-coded "dance pad" with buttons you can tap with your feet -- or jump on -- to scroll through electronic files."
This is not ubicomp, but the idea is a little bit similar and interesting.
Tired of using mouse? Today we went to the NTU kindergarden to do survey about ubicomp. When kids saw Toung's laptop, one of them reacted immediately: "Where is the mouse?" Gosh... they are only 4-year-old children! Must computer relate to a mouse we can hold? I ponder this question for a while. Although there are several commercial products as computers without mouse-like devices needed, it seems that this kind of stereotype still extists in our minds, and mouse is still essential to us. When friends use my cellphone, most of them try to find the stylus at first, but actually, I don't use it often - instead, just with my fingertips. Moving things with parts of our body directly is such a natural action. Shouldn't computers exist more naturally in our life? I expect that day will come soon.

(personal remind)

From now on... I should not wait anymore. I think I've waited enough - Just do it, Peggy :)

Speeches about paper writing

Today I joined two useful and meaningful speeches about academic paper writing (2006全國研究生學術論文寫作演講), presented by 台大物理所陳永芳教授 and 台大電子所所長闕志達教授.
Although these two are not that much related to paper writing (only part of them whereas the third speech is more about writing), I did learn lots of great concepts about how to be a graduate student, even a research worker. Moreover, NTU Graduate Student Association arranges the speech series quite well – they even print out all slides of every speech for audience to take notes!
There are too many important points today, but here I just choose some main ideas as follows:
*研究創新主要來自於對基本觀念的透徹理解、濃厚興趣、深刻體悟
*著重跨領域之整合、雙項專長 (any two fields)
*態度最重要！將困難化為墊腳石。要能有自信（需成功經驗re-invoke）、國際化（有多少個可以聊天的外國朋友？）
*做決定：跟著直覺走（愛情這樣一輩子的事情都可以隨性，其他較不重要的學業工作、為何卻想太多？ ）
*訂目標：生涯規劃只能大方向，且需隨時調整；要能快樂與滿足。飛輪：萬事起頭難，需要前面努力累積，不知不覺中突破
*做研究：題目- aim high; research = re-search; 讀寫論文的方式
I like the speech from Prof. Chiueh especially – I totally agree with his every point which are also what I have been endeavoring for a long time. His speech is really one of the best that I've ever listened before. Graduate student life becomes more and more interesting to me– I hope my passion of research will last forever~ ha!

Feb, 24th, a great day

It is really an exciting day for me today :)

• Having an interesting lunch with Kenghao, Ben, CL, and 超哥 – chatting about phD, research, and GRE (oh my god, our AWA tests are approaching!)


• Applying for involving researches of Ubicomp Lab – it's the most exciting things for me today! I really think that life is more and more interesting with Ubicomp ideas! - I'm glad that Michael thinks so as well :D


• Having a dinner with Ann (from ASES-Stanford, she's going to study Chinese in NTNU the following three months!), Kaity (also from ASES-Stanford, this academic year she studies in LTTC for Chinese), Derek (an exchange student from Univ. of Toronto to Dept. of International Business, NTU), Stephen and Cynthia (great ASES-Taiwan staffs, delegates to Singapore summit, so does Michael!), James (a future great business man from EE who has same birthday with me) – wow, I think I really miss days in Stanford summit


• Planning for the big event in ASES this semester – more and more interesting!


• Receiving a picture of snowing from my love – I wanna walk in the snow with you!

After marking time for one month with a vacation, Now I'm well-prepared to sprint!!! GOGOGO!

[Taiwan] Power failure!

What?!!!! Power failure?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven’t experienced this for a long long long time. Since my house is near a hospital, every time we can get benefit from it. Today… What’s going on?!!!!
All of a sudden, the world turned into black. Whole black. I can’t even see any light outside. My parents and I immediately found all flashlights and candles out. It’s interesting that I bought more than 20 candles 6 years ago in Britain and there were almost new since I don’t have a chance to use them. Now… I don’t expect to use them under this kind of situations orz
However, my GRE AWA test is just next Wednesday… I have to study with weak light like ancient people. Gosh! I think it will be great to sleep just now!!!!

ok, now electricity comes back, so I can post it now. It's said that all East part of Taipei had same problem - no wonder... I was quite surprised when I got the message from James who lives in NTU. Wow~!

[Taiwan] Happy Valentine's Day!

[Ubicomp] purpose of conference?

Today in the seminar there was a paper worthy to think:
Relescope: An Experiment in Accelerating Relationships (CHI2005)
After discussing, at the end teacher bring up a question, “what is the main purpose to attend a conference? Academic one or socializing” Without thinking at all, I immediately choose socializing. However, when I was taking a shower and thought again, hmm…. maybe that’s only to ASES summit?
After joining ALC (the summer school program I went to Stanford) and ASES summit twice, I definitely think networking is the main purpose to we students and these kinds of opportunities, esp. ASES – about entrepreneurship. But, now talking about academic conference, it should be different! Well, I haven’t attended any academic one before and am still a tyro in research field. I should really ponder much more :)

[Fun] Net disaster

http://www.netdisaster.com/
You can choose one of effects at a time to a certain website. It's fun!
I tried it one by one and like the following effects: meteors, flood, flower powers, text sucker (cool!), dinosaurs, baby, eggs, slow burn, cow dung, and dog poop.
Hmmmm…. Pee and vomit are too disgusting, I think @@

[Taiwan] Happy Chinese New Year

[ASES] good friends‧Macao

Thanks for 青創總會, this Monday (1/23) I joined a welcome party for several groups about entrepreneurship or others from Macao. They came here to visit many groups. Here is a link about this event from 青創總會: newsletter

Then, this Wednesday night, 峻宇 (明新創業社社長), James(張文堅 from ASES-Taiwan, same birthday as mine :p) and I, took 6 outstanding and energetic students from Macao to Shih-Lin night market (士林夜市). That was really a lot of fun!

I found that we students from Macao and Taiwan are really closed and similar. Moreover, I am so glad to know Christina Wong and Angel Lei these two girls :) esp. Christina – we have soooooooooo many things in common! Hope we will meet pretty soon!

[MM] Image Inpainting

This program is for the course "Digital Image Processing" and also "project on IM" to achieve "Image Inpainting," completed by StyxDD, Reinhard, and Peggy from Dept. of Information Management, National Taiwan University.

It allows user to manually specify an object he wants to remove and missing structure information so that out program will automatically remove the object and create a new inpainting image.

Interface:


Our program provides the following functions:

• Open an image file:Pop up a window for picking files, supporting all image types.
• Draw structure lines:Our program will automatically detect different lines and complete the points to have continuous lines.
• Link two points to be a straight line:Since it's difficult to draw a straight line by hands, we provide a function for users to choose starting point and end point and then link them automatically.
• Draw contours of objects:Our program can automatically complete the points to be continuous, link the head and tail of the contour line, and then fulfill the region by using “dilation”.
• Choose paint size:For different images, there will be different sizes of structure/objects, we provide a function for users to choose the size of painter.
• Delete what user drawn before:User may draw a line and then want to dispose it, we also provide a function to delete.
• Setup:Users can choose the size of patch, texture size, Ks, Ki, and interval of picking samples, do rotate or not and its angle, do flipping or not and the way to flip (vertically or horizontally), to optimize the structure propagation and texture propagation.
• Scale down:Since the image may be too large for users to draw objects, we also provide the shrinking function to scale down the image.
• Show user image immediately:Before performing propagation, user can see what he really draw first and then decides to repaint or to continue.
• Compare result images:Original, user drawing, the result image of structure propagation and texture propagation can be chosen to show on the screen.

Results:
Papers:

• J. Sun, L. Yuan, J. Jia, and H. Shum. 2005. Image Completion with Structure Propagation. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005.
• A. Criminisi, P. Perez, and K. Toyama. 2003. Object Removal by Exemplar-Based Inpainting. In In Proc. Conf. Comp. Vision Pattern Rec., 417-424.
• P. Perez, M. Gangnet, A. Blake. 2003. Poisson Image Editing. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003.

Afterthoughts:
This project is indeed interesting to me, not only because the topic (inpainting) is amazing and fascinating, but also cooperating with DD and Reinhard these two guys is good experience – I even bought some cakes for them to celebrate their birthdays (1/15 and 1/16), haha!
Now project on IM for object recognition in digital images with Jenny and Cathy is also finished, suddenly I miss those days we worked together so much… :)

Notes:
Sorry sorry!!! We have some difficulties to share source code or executive file - hope you can understand our concerns! Thanks!

[Taiwan] MRT with Snoopy

I wanna take it once more!

[Taiwan] Taipei101 with Sony

Yes, as you asked me to keep noticing its situation when you left, I watched Taipei 101 everyday to check the words/advertising :P
Today they lighted the green lights as well, so I took pictures of it.
Moreover, the moon today was so bright and round. I want to share with you.
Moto's picturing function has a lot to improve T.T

[Fun] Largest prime number

From: TIME January 16, 2006; page 14
9.1 million Number of digits in the longest prime number ever discovered, announced last week (1/4) by U.S. researchers.
CNN News
“It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 -- that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1. Mersenne primes are a special category expressed as 2 to the "p" power minus 1, in which "p" also is a prime number.”

The Phantom of the Opera

Yes, I did watch it… but not in Taiwan :P
Tomorrow, this fantastic musical will touch every audience’s heart in Nation Theater Hall. http://phantom.ntch.edu.tw/
This trend of chasing reminds me how much I liked it more than 12 years ago.

When I was about 9, my mom introduced the album, a version with only music part, to us. It was not fascinated to me immediately, but after couples of rounds I listened to it and felt the melody with my heart. Then, I bought the score and began to play it with piano again and again, read the whole story, understand the lyrics, collect its products, etc.
Ultimately, I was lucky enough to watch this musical personally in London – it was extremely impressive and admirable. Everything at that moment was just like a dream to me.

:: With the opera we went for this musical in London, Britain ::

(Oops! I looked quite fat in this picture! I went to Britain for summer school when I was 15 years old – the days pass so quickly!! Now I’m going to graduate from university?! At that time I was just ready for senior high!) Here I would like to thank to Johnson, who exchanged the ticket with me to fulfill my little dream of watching this musical! BTW, If I tell him that 王奕棠(Mark) and I will be classmates in graduate institute, he may be really surprised :P Hmmm…It is such a pity that we lost contacts after coming back to Taiwan…

After 7 years from I enjoyed the musical, now it finally visits to Taiwan. Hope there will be more and more people touched by this masterpiece.

Blogger for Word

Now I’m using Google blog “Blogger” for Word to edit the post, i.e. I can just use MS Word to post articles. I think I should spend more time on this to explore more functions by Google! Okay, it will be one of goals for my lovely winter vacation :)
http://www.blogger.com/

1/5 [mmlab] Dining with Tony

My advisor in my college life, Tony Lee, invited we students to a great dinner tonight.
Jenny(airen) and I went there by my cute scooter together.
BTW, buses in Taipei are really crazy, same as taxi @@

Wow! When we got there, there were already lots of students, including we senior classmates 8 people!

The restaurant(海石源) was quite nice, esp. foods there were quite special.
P.S. Jenny knows a lot about foods! Very admirable~
It's a Japanese style one – しゃぶしゃぶ with 食べ放題.
In addition to eating hard, we 6 classmates sitting together chatted a lot as well, mostly related to future/life plan… really like senior students :P haha

It's a pity that there was time restriction for 2 hours.
When Tony came to our table, the waiter reminded us again orz
I wish to talk more with Tony, who is really a great advisor and has profound effect on me of my life - It's true! I deeply hope we can talk more in the future, esp. after I started to research~!

Afterward I sent 阿蝶 back to home (just nearby)~
Thanks to Joe and Takumi, now I know better about how to carry others~ fufu.

GOSH.... I am stuffed right now!!!!!!!

* Jenny, me, and 阿蝶：）

1/4 [Ubicomp] a good talk

Today, 4pm @CSIE R102, my advisor, Hao, introduced an impressive talk by Jackie Lee.
The following is an introduction from Hao:
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Jackie Lee 李佳勳

Ph.D student, MIT Media Lab 麻省理工學院 媒體實驗室 博士生

Technology for Augmenting Human Sensibility
擴增感知能力的生活科技

abstract
Human is not a machine. Making an intelligent environment for people to have better efficiency and better quality of life is not enough. Technology should be placed where people can have better communication with other people. Technology should help people better understand their environments. Ideas and examples will be included in this talk.

bio
Jackie Lee is a Ph.D candidate at MIT Media Laboratory. His research focuses on re-designing technology from people's emotion and enriching people's living experience. He is a research assistant in Context-Aware Computing group and received his MS degree from MIT in 2005. Before he came to MIT, he holds M.Arch and B.Arch degrees both from NCKU. He did many digital augmented installations to help architectural student to learn using 3D and Virtual Reality tools.
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Jackie is indeed an impressive person: passionate, professional, rational, and always with a smile.
Today he talked about several projects that he did before and those which are going-on right now. They are about ubiquitous computing and human lives. I like those ideas very much, and his ten innovative visions in the future as well. Moreover, I love the feeling of getting new ideas and discussing with others – they bring me a lot to think.
* Kitchen of the Future
* 3D structure building
* New ideas of refrigerator, sink+dishmaker, watch, bathtub, cloning feelings, physical word, pen, etc.

When I saw what he accomplished during master life, I was quite surprised - they were really admirable. Not to mention his projects in MIT, very interesting!
He will have a workshop in Taiwan this summer. Can't wait to experience those fantastic ideas personally!
* Although I experienced some ubicomp things in the past, e.g. SONY museum in Odaiba, they were not enought for me right now. Hope I can feel once more ASAP :)

New Start - 新登場！

For both this brand new year 2006 and the one I love, I would like to start to take care of this blog again :)
From now on, I will make use of this to record my daily life and some interesting stories or thoughts. Hope you will like it!

今天超滿足*^^*

早上和小飛馬吃We care (我又狠狠的睡死了)
中午和MMLAB學長姐請教辨識
下午不太專心的DCT
接著很開心很嗨的討論
晚上最後一堂作文課，發現跟著寫題目其實頗有收穫
半夜...

半夜過著我夢寐以求的生活
和君鳳到家禎宿舍趕專題
太猛了，老師給三星期的時間，我們今天才在趕（期中考荼毒...）
整個是超超超嗨，尤其陳雷出現
學到很多耶！雖然還沒開始codingXD

好愛宿舍生活唷～～耶家禎人好好！帶了一帶零食和飲料*^^*
還爬上三樓拿學生證送我們出去
感謝老大順道載我去騎車，這種生活對我真是太幸福美滿了
回家路上幾乎沒啥車，狂飆～～～很過癮
現在不想睡了@@
（台灣時間清晨四點）

clearer pics of Taipei 101 with Einstein

我媽剛剛很嗨的找我出去拍照
我們就真的馬上去國父紀念館耶
結論是該換一台相機了
ps. 我習慣晚睡是有原因的:p

從我家看Taipei101點燈

啊啊啊剛剛聽到鞭炮聲才猛然想起～紀念愛因斯坦點燈
和媽媽衝去陽台看
哇好亮唷！！！ 而且燈亮成"TAIPEI"耶
可惜沒看到煙火！都怪我忘記了！
ps. 爸爸剛好回來，說他聽到鞭炮聲嚇到～～哈哈

Welcome!

Wow... this is my first blog!
I wanna share sth about ASES summit @ Stanford afterwards!