Re:Computer Vision Research: The deep “depression”
by wolfgke on Thursday June 09, 2016 @09:21AM
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> tldr: After 150+ years of science there is almost nothing left which can be discovered by a single PhD student
With 150+ years of science lots of new kinds of questions emerged that hardly anyone went deeply into. Just begin working there and make deep contributions. To make a few things clear:
* You probably won't get any academic recognition for this or probably no research funding agency will be willing to fund your research (far too experimental).
* It is quite possible that despite you being really talented your research into this will come to nothing. That is a prize one has to pay for the possibility of doing a deep contribution.
If you are looking for ideas where to start, just look around yourself and from what you see try to create a deep general theory (the more abstract and general the better IMHO) which has lots of predictive power and either allows you to formalize a theory where you can prove theorems about (my personally prefered way, since I'm mathematician) or has strong falsifiable predictions that one can in principle do experiments on.
Re:Computer Vision Research: The deep “depression”
by swsieber on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:43AM
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This. Most of the comments on this thread support your statements - people don't vary because of the risks, the biggest one being not getting published.
With 150+ years of science lots of new kinds of questions emerged that hardly anyone went deeply into. Just begin working there and make deep contributions. To make a few things clear:
* You probably won't get any academic recognition for this or probably no research funding agency will be willing to fund your research (far too experimental).
* It is quite possible that despite you being really talented your research into this will come to nothing. That is a prize one has to pay for the possibility of doing a deep contribution.
If you are looking for ideas where to start, just look around yourself and from what you see try to create a deep general theory (the more abstract and general the better IMHO) which has lots of predictive power and either allows you to formalize a theory where you can prove theorems about (my personally prefered way, since I'm mathematician) or has strong falsifiable predictions that one can in principle do experiments on.