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  I had a paper accepted to the Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representation and Analysis (DIRA) workshop, allowing me to attend the 17 th European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (ECCV 2022) in Tel Aviv, Israel, from October 23 - 27. ECCV 2022 is a large conference with attendees from more than 76 countries. More than 3,200 people attended ECCV 2022 in person, and 1,800 more attended virtually. ECCV 2022 was my first Computer Vision conference and perhaps the largest academic conference I have attended to date. ECCV 2022 is a premier conference for computer vision. The conference contains work from many corners of computer vision, from detecting and processing text in images to generating full images based on text prompts. ECCV 2022’s organizers came from a wide variety of universities and industry, including places like Harvard , Meta , Kyoto University , IBM Research , and USC . ...

Last week, I was discussing my publications with a colleague, and I mentioned that I had a paper published at ACM CIKM 2019 . They were curious about the conference and its 2019 call for papers (CFP) date. I was trying to recall the conference's venue and one of the workshop's names. I remembered that the conference was in Beijing but did not have the other information on hand during the discussion. To help answer these questions, I visited the CIKM 2019 website as linked from  CIKM's page and found a very different website from what I remembered.  Content drift had struck again. This is not the CIKM conference website I was looking for... I discovered that the CIKM 2019 conference proceedings contain proof of my paper publication, a welcome from the conference chairs, paper statistics, lists of committee members and organizers, sponsors, and other papers and workshops at CIKM 2019.  The proceedings do not mention: the conference venue recommended conference hotels CFP...

Between November 18 and 20, I attended the 2019 International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019) . K-CAP is an ACM sponsored conference, rated as “A” in the   ERA conference rating system . It happens once every two years. Its counterpart in Europe is EKAW (unfortunately, EKAW is rated as B), which also happens every two years. I had papers accepted by K-CAP 2015 and 2017. This year, I co-authored a short paper titled “ Searching for Evidence of Scientific News in Scholarly Big Data ” ( poster link ). The first author is my co-advised student Reshad Hoque at ODU . I also co-authored and presented a long paper titled “Automatic Slide Generation for Scientific Papers” in the 3rdInternational Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge (SciKnow 2019) . The first author is my co-advised student Athar Sefid at Penn State.   Due to my tight schedule, I had to return right after the keynote by Peter Clark on the first day, so this trip report su...