Motivation - GrOCR at UCSD

I try to keep an eye on the website for the UCSD Computer Vision group. In early 2011, I became aware of Kai Wang's GrOCR project. I during the summer of 2011 I lived in Shanghai for 3 months to begin studying Mandarin. As an aside, if you want to study Mandarin in Shanghai I highly recommend John Pasden's company AllSet Learning. I continue to study Mandarin at UCSD. My fascination with Chinese characters (hanzi) intersected my fascination with Kai's work, and this project was conceived.