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arXiv:2209.11200 (cs)
[Submitted on 22 Sep 2022 (v1), last revised 27 Aug 2024 (this version, v3)]
Title:Attention is All They Need: Exploring the Media Archaeology of the Computer Vision Research Paper
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View PDFHTML (experimental)Abstract:Research papers, in addition to textual documents, are a designed interface through which researchers communicate. Recently, rapid growth has transformed that interface in many fields of computing. In this work, we examine the effects of this growth from a media archaeology perspective, through the changes to figures and tables in research papers. Specifically, we study these changes in computer vision over the past decade, as the deep learning revolution has driven unprecedented growth in the discipline. We ground our investigation through interviews with veteran researchers spanning computer vision, graphics, and visualization. Our analysis focuses on the research attention economy: how research paper elements contribute towards advertising, measuring, and disseminating an increasingly commodified "contribution." Through this work, we seek to motivate future discussion surrounding the design of both the research paper itself as well as the larger sociotechnical research publishing system, including tools for finding, reading, and writing research papers.
| Subjects: | Computers and Society (cs.CY); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) |
| ACM classes: | K.7.m |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2209.11200 [cs.CY] |
| (orarXiv:2209.11200v3 [cs.CY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.11200 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite | |
| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3686955 DOI(s) linking to related resources |
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From: Samuel Goree [view email][v1] Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:42:44 UTC (16,690 KB)
[v2] Wed, 1 May 2024 15:17:18 UTC (16,354 KB)
[v3] Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:44:11 UTC (16,354 KB)
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