Vision ground truth is a massive project, and needs long term efforts. Our work is made possible by the participation of field experts, dedicated staff, and generous support of various agents and individuals.

We’d like to thank the following funding sources:
•       Technical Innovation Grant from the City of EZhou China,
•       Grants from the Hubei Province, China,
•       National 863 Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology, China,
•       Gift from Microsoft Research Asia (Thank Dr. Harry Shum and his team),
•       Subcontract from the Keck Foundation to UCLA (Thank Prof. Alan Yuille),
•       Other gifts from a number of people.

In 2005, a number of vision people provided their valuable suggestions at the Kick-off meeting: Alan Yuille, Li Fei-Fei, Antonio Tarrabal, David Martin, Charles Fowlkes, Peter Hallinan, Mark Nitzberg. Over the years, the following vision experts have taught summer courses at Lotus Hill: Long Quan, Jackie Shen, Ying Wu, Zhuowen Tu, Yi Ma, Jianbo Shi, Stan Li, Changshui Zhang.