The International Computer Vision Conference at the end of 2013 had some dark humor.
There are no papers published on the most important technical achievements. Meng Fanqi has fully voted for next year's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, and the event seminars are not included in the main conference schedule.
The deputy conference was much more popular than the main conference. Since there was not enough space in the room, the conference gave priority to people from academia entering the room.
Very few people from the media were able to enter the venue.
After the meeting was over, Meng Fanqi and others felt a little tired, so they quickly slipped away from the venue.
The reporters with long guns and cannons at the door waited for a long time, and then let go of the young people who came out with the others at the beginning.
After all, they look the least like the people who need to be photographed and interviewed by themselves.
Only a few reporters who had done their homework slapped Meng Fanqi hard.
Several reporters nearby felt strange, "What are you taking pictures of? Hinton, Ross, and Likun didn't come out."
"We are still filming Hinton, Ross, and everyone is tired of watching it. Do you know who just passed by? Basically all the breakthrough work in the visual field this year was done by him alone."
At what level can one become an academic journalist without caring about current affairs? I don’t even know who to shoot.
The reporter sneered inwardly as he answered.
Let me talk about the most widely spread thing in this meeting.
In fact, it is not an academic display and Q&A by Meng Fanqi or Han Ci. Very few people will really watch something of this nature.
Instead, it was the photo of Meng Fanqi captured during the final question and answer session.
This captured photo has Meng Fanqi as the center of the picture, surrounded by a circle of senior figures in academia and industry.
It contains many contrasting elements, such as nationality, age, etc.
The young Chinese scholar at the core, and the surrounding elderly European and American scholars, make the whole picture very prominent.
This photo later became widely circulated in China.
The big boss finally settled the two serious matters of the academic conference and the Google contract, and the rest of the people had the nerve to ask for some fun.
"I want to see penguins! Penguins are so cute!" Maimang loves all kinds of cute animals and can no longer hold back at this moment.
"Points will be deducted, points will be deducted. It's a bad rule." Don Juan immediately pointed out Mai Mang's mistake, "The big boss hasn't spoken yet, how dare you?"
"Aren't penguins only found in Antarctica?" Meng Fanqi didn't know much about animals, but he didn't have any particular place he wanted to go.
When you come to a new place and take a look at the local customs and customs, animals should also be one of them.
"Penguins are basically in the Southern Hemisphere. When it comes to Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand are probably very close. I remember there were a lot of little blue penguins on Macquarie Island." Han Ci has a really good memory and has seen a lot. Can't forget anything.
"The little blue penguin is the smallest of all penguins. Most small animals are cute. Let's go and see it." Han Ci also responded to Maimang's call.
"Let's go and have a look." Meng Fanqi did know an interesting technical story about the little blue penguin. Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, was bitten by a little blue penguin while on vacation in Australia.
This directly led him to choose the Emperor Penguin, the penguin image that people are most familiar with and the first thing that comes to mind, as the official logo and mascot of the Linux operating system.
Xini Wildlife Park is located in the city center, not even 2-3 kilometers away from the venue. This incident surprised everyone.
Everyone had made plans to travel a long distance, but they never thought that they would be able to reach it just by going for a walk.
It is said to be an indoor zoo, but it is generally made like a park.
The animals inside are either eating or sleeping, very leisurely.
"Wow, this gray kangaroo is so ugly." Maimang exclaimed when she saw the kangaroo up close. She was very disgusted when she found that the kangaroo was far less cute than she thought.
"Be careful. Its arms are full of muscles. Watch out for it to punch you."
In addition to the local kangaroos, koalas are quite cute.
"Koalas spend 80% of their lives in trees, sleeping more than 18 hours a day. Wouldn't such a life be a bit boring?" Liu Xu looked at the introduction of the animals next to him and felt a little emotional.
"Then why don't you calculate the time we spend studying and working? Then calculate the time we spend sleeping, and see how much is left?"
"Stop talking, stop talking. Talking too much will lead to tears."
A few people came at the right time, as the park just opened up a close-up tour of penguins.
In addition to buying some carrots to feed the giraffes, the group also got the opportunity to feed some little penguins.
After the keeper brought this group of about a dozen people into the museum, he introduced enthusiastically, "The little blue penguin is the smallest penguin in the world. It is generally only about 40 centimeters tall when it reaches adulthood."
"They usually roost here and eat by the pond over there."
While the keeper was giving an introduction, two little blue penguins waddled by, causing the tourists to exclaim in low voices.
"It's so cute."
"Swaggering, looking so proud."
"These two penguins are gay penguins in our zoo. They are both male." The keeper introduced them very dutifully.
There was a white guy from Scotland next to him who immediately became excited, "Tell me everything, I want to know all the stories about these two penguins!"
"I would like to ask everyone, can you tell the difference between male penguins and female penguins?"
This group of tourists shook their heads in confusion, and then realized something.
"Very good. I think you can probably guess the reason. Many penguins can't tell the difference."
"During the mating season last year, other penguins started to exercise, and these two penguins were also doing exercises. But a few months later, other penguins laid eggs, but they couldn't lay their own eggs."
"So the two of them wandered around among the penguins all day, not knowing why things were like this."
"Finally, the two of them found a stone that looked like an egg and took it home. They would take turns hatching the stone for an hour or two every day."
Hearing this, the tourists all expressed feelings of pity for them.
At this moment, a very small penguin stumbled behind and rushed towards them.
The keeper explained that this was because she took an egg from a penguin that laid many eggs and gave it to the two gay penguins to hatch.
"Aww~ It's so cute." Several girls listened to this story and found it very touching.
"They are cute just because they are penguins." Meng Fanqi was completely immune to such things. "Imagine replacing the penguins in the story with humans."
"Shut up!!"
