Daily CVPR - Wednesday

CVPR Daily: Anna, where do you study? Anna Volokitin: I am a first year PhD student at ETH Zurich, and I’m just starting a project on video summarization. CVPR Daily: Can you tell us a few words about your work? Anna: At this conference there is a paper called “ Video to Gif ” about the automatic extraction of gifs from videos. I’m working on continuation where we localize the videos. We also predict the gif boundaries. CVPR Daily: Why did you choose to dedicate your career to computer vision technologies? Anna: I think computer vision is close to cognitive science as well. It’s so cool, and I am so fascinated by it. CVPR Daily: What do you like about it? Anna: I like that I can really see the progress in technology. It is moving so fast, and it’s a really exciting time . CVPR Daily: Is it more difficult for a woman to be a scientist and if yes, why? Anna: Sometimes I second guess myself because there are no other women in our lab. In this way it’s more difficult, but I think that in my case all of this criticism is only coming from myself, since everybody I have met has been super supportive. 10 Women in Computer Vision Anna Volokitin CVPR Daily: Wednesday