CVPR Daily - Thursday

DAILY T h u r s d a y David Fouhey 13 talk about, but for more simple things where you say, “If I trained a classifier to detect giraffes, maybe it only will pick up on some sort of other correlation. ” I think it’s something where we talk about these things as academic examples, and it’s kind of interesting when it happens on MS COCO, but when it happens in the real world, we abstract away the concept that data and algorithms can have bias and forget about it. I think these are really hard problems and we have to find solutions. I don’t have solutions, but I think we have to talk about it and be aware of it and listen to people who have been talking about it for quite some time. Thinking back to the Berkeley Crowd, what do you miss the most from that time and those people? I miss ditching work and going off for a hike with my lab mates and taking long extended meals where you discuss anything and everything. Those are times that you should treasure in graduate school because you don’t get as many of them after. I think every one of our readers can relate to that. O ne thing that I love about this community is that you see the same people and you’ve known them over many years. I met Angjoo at ECCV 2012. I was not part of the Berkeley Crowd for a while, but I knew them, I would see them at conferences, we’d hang out, we’d talk, we’d catch up. Now, they’re friends for life, and I’m sure in 20 or 30 years from now we’re still going to be in contact. You make these amazing friends over this really long period of time. It’s great. When you start going to CVPR, you don’t expect it. Then you go again and again and again. The Berkeley crowd: Alyosha Efros and Phillip Isola on the left; in the center Angjoo Kanazawa; David is on the right.