New CIMET poster

The New CIMET poster is available. Please help us to spread it over the world.

Some pictures from Toledo trip.

Granada University: CIMET students Dinner in Toledo.

Ski in courchevel !!

Though www.courchevel.com is a nice place in Alps to ski, the ski tour informed by the international office was only for those who have at least some basic expertise in skiing.

The complete album can be found here 

we are getting ready after having custom settings of the shoe with ski.

On the station named Tania

Photos in Spain

Ok just photos, Hasan and Clarence have said everything:)

Tour to Annecy

International office of University of Jean Monnet,France has taken us to the carnival festival of Annecy(France) .

It was an exciting experience with a lot of fun with my CIMET friends(Free wine effect on clarance & we didn't miss to shoot).

Nature has given enormous beauty to this place. For only 15EUR it was one of the most beautiful tour of my life !

Complete photo Album of Annecy tour can be seen from here 

New CIMET poster

A Revisited Intensive Week of Advanced Colorimetry!

Hi all,

I want share with you a photo in Saint Etienne.

Intensive Week of Advanced Colorimetry!

Starting the 2nd semester in Saint Etienne was exciting. The Spanish flavour of education has extended its hand by introducing a "Intensive week(Tough Week)" even in Saint Etienne by Advanced Colorimetry!
Though I do not support for any sort of intensive course work, still I consider the effort of Prof Manuel Melgosa & Rafael Huertas is more successful as a course than the previous intensive "Algorithm" week.
I am waiting to receive the photos from rafa to include the blog......................
Despite the need the proper time & traditional lecture by lecture learning steps I am considering Advaced Colorimetry as a near successful course.

Days in passion--Commemorate my study experience in Granada, Spain

by Clarence on February 8th, 2009

It’s my pleasure to say something about my memorable experience in Granada. I spent my first semester of CIMET program from September 2008 to January 2009 in Spain and left for St-Etienne, France on 23rd January, 2009. Recalling the last five months in Spain, I would say this is a truly rewarding experience, especially for a 22-year-old young man, it enables me to see the world and grow up a lot.

Study in Granada University
Normally, we had our classes in the optics department of the science faculty or the study building behind it. The facilities in the department are comparatively advanced and there is a computer lab uniquely provided for the CIMET students. The most joyful thing of studying in the department is that you are able to study with some top researchers in the area of Color Science and Color Imaging, such as Prof. Javier Romero and Prof Manuel Malgosa, etc. I highly suggest that the students who are interested in optics and photonics to spend at least one semester here, and you will be given an opportunity to cultivate some research skills with these professors.

Language and Culture
In Granada, we had an 80-hour intensive course on Spanish, but more importantly, you are now living in Spain which enables you to practice your Spanish every day! The local people here in Granada are quite open and talkative, but they don’t speak English at all! Therefore if possible, please try to pick up some simple Spanish before coming here; otherwise you will turn to be dumb in first few weeks! Unlike Chinese or English who I have been familiar with, Spanish people are very open and speak out their feeling very directly. Some small culture shocks are unavoidable at first, but after you made through the changes, you will realize the beauty of the Spanish life.

There are many activities and holidays going on during the year. Probably you may know about bull fighting and flamenco in Spanish. Yes, these activities are very popular in Spain, but besides that, enjoying some football matches in the bar and watching the holiday parade celebrating Columbus’s voyage have become another way of experiencing the Spanish culture.

Traveling
Definitely, I will never miss out the backpack traveling in this country. We traveled to Almuñecar during a color imaging workshop and Madrid while applying for the French visa. Also, we went to Sevilla during the Christmas break and of course the completely city exploration in Granada. Several hard evidence are listed below (Please note, though we are good image processing learners, I have not done anything on these photos :)).

Madrid trip
en Sevilla

Granada city

After all, the Spanish living is worthwhile memorizing for my whole life. I feel really gratitude to have a chance to study in Granada and be able to touch the Spanish world. To finish this blog, I would love to quote some of the words in my thank-you letter to the professors, “The teaching staff here are the nicest I have been studied with. I have gained great knowledge throughout this semester. Also, your motivation of improving the quality of this master inspires me to try my best to improve my study method. Probably you may know, I am so far the youngest member in the CIMET family and this Spanish study experience is definitely beneficial for my future life in the long run. It is a shame that I only stayed here for less than 6 months, but I have already had many memorable moments here in Granada. At last, I want to thank you again for sharing the precious time with me, and hope Granada will be one of the best hosting universities in the future.”

Last meeting with the students

A week ago we had an informal meeting with the students of the first semester and CIMET professors to attend a presentation by Hassan Faridul about his lovely country (Bangladesh). We enjoy a lot that presentation.

Apart from that we want to thank Hassan, Yu, Clarence and Aitor for their enthusiam during the first semester.

Tour in Madrid !

Time moves away and vanished just like that....I can still remember the sunny day i have arrived in Granada in Autobus Estacion with a warm welcome from Javier & now i am writing from my room in Saint-Etienne.

Its been a one of the most memorable & wonderful time in my life to be in Granada (From 1st September 2008 to 23rd January 2009).

Operation Madrid :

As Clarance and me has to come to Saint Etienne for the 2nd semester we had to apply for the French Visa to the Embassy of France in Madrid. Thanks to Prof. Javier to make an appointment for us (remember Embassy receive calls for Visa appointment only for certain amount of weired time!!). Yuhu joined with our team which completes the three musketeers

The visa processing in French Embassy was just amazing!! The guy in the embassy is just cool! He managed everything we had our Visa in Just 20-30 minutes!

Then we have start our mission

Yuhu & Clarance have collected all the free schedules from some Chinese website, & we have visited Prado, museum of arts sofia madrid etc for free!!

We have also visited the Royal palace, roam around the city and telepiza as dinner!

If you are in Spain for any reason don't forget to explore Madrid. Madrid is simply beautiful!

Welcome to the BLOG of the Master Erasmus Mundus "Color in Informatics and Media Technology" - CIMET in Granada

Welcome to the blog of the local aspects of the Master Erasmus-Mundus CIMET "Color in Informatics and Media Technology" in Granada (Spain).

This blog is the result of a suggestion from the first edition students in Granada during the first semester of the academic year 2008-09. We really appreciate them for their efforts and ideas to improve the quality of the master here in the University of Granada (Spain).

The aim of this blog is to post any aspect, news, comment, suggestion, advice, etc. from CIMET students about the master CIMET in Granada, the city, the University of Granada, the country, etc.

Remember the following links:
CIMET official site:
http://www.master-erasmusmundus-color.eu/
CIMET at Granada:
www.ugr.es/local/cimetugr
Best regards