On Research, Writing and Speaking

The following chapters contain general advice for students and researchers. This advice is not limited to computer vision, nor is it limited to researchers. It is our personal perspective on skills that a good computer vision practitioner should have. However, as in all advice, you should always get multiple opinions and choose the one that helps you become the most successful student, researcher, or engineer. See, e.g., the excellent videos from this 2018 workshop [1] from the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR).

While there are many topics important to a researcher’s career that we don’t cover (how to review papers, mentor and advise, and manage collaborations), we hope that these chapters will be useful to both students, researchers, and engineers.

Outline

• Chapter 52  How to Do Research presents actionable tips for doing research, especially for those just starting out.

• Chapter 53  How to Write Papers gives our tips for writing and organizing your research manuscripts.

• Chapter 54  How to Give Talks provides some tips for giving engaging talks and managing nervousness.

Feel free to read these chapters at any moment and in any order.

[1]

D. Parikh, D. Batra, CVPR18 workshop panel: How to be a good citizen of the CVPR community., (2018).