CVPR Daily - Thursday

DAILY T h u r s d a y Arsha Nagrani 25 Do we have a chance to save them with your work? That’s the goal! How hopeful are you? I think that there’s a lot of interest in this area now, not just from academic labs, but companies are becoming very interested. So, for example, Google has its Wildlife Insights project. Facebook is doing some work in this space... and Microsoft. So yeah, I’m pretty hopeful, if everyone works together. What about Oxford and VGG? VGG is a fantastic group. I’m very lucky I spent four years there. I’ve been working in a number of different areas. The main theme I’ve really been interested in is using multiple modalities and sound to learn better representations for computer vision tasks. For example, using speech as a form of supervision for action recognition. Very recently, well I guess not recently, it’s been happening for a while, but I’ve also been interested in computer vision for wildlife conservation. We have this collaboration with the anthropology department in Oxford, where we apply face recognition techniques to chimpanzee videos in the wild. I have never interviewed Andrew Zisserman, but I know that he will read this article. Can you tell us what it’s like to work with him? Firstly, it’s absolutely fantastic. Andrew is a great supervisor. I think one of the best things about him actually is that even thoughhe’s sobusy, he isextremelyhands on. I just find it amazing that he spends so much time with his PhD students and Postdocs. It’s suchabig lab, andyet hewill meet everyone. He’s extremely involved in everyone’s work. The other nice thing is that even though he has high level, big picture insights, he’s also very interested in low level details, like implementation details, which is quite nice. “This year we’re having this virtual “He’s extremely involved in everyone’s work.”