Ph.D. proposal exam passed

I just passed my Ph.D. proposal exam on Monday, Dec. 6th, 2010. The title of the proposal is "Bridging the Semantic Gap: Image and Video Understanding by Integrating Vision and Language". The hypothesis of this thesis is that many vision problems can not be solved solely based on the visual data. Knowledge and reasoning process need to be integrated in the loop, which are provided by language. This idea is embodied by several recent projects, as described in my research web page.

Now I need to work hard to finish the rest work towards my Ph.D. Hopefully, they can be done in next year.