CVPR Daily - Monday

I hope so too! What makes you more proud? Your own success or a students’ success? I’m still really early in the process, but I suspect it will be the latter: students’ success. I don’t view them as being mutually exclusive. I feel successful when my students are successful. I feel more pride in some sense and more excited if there is a piece of work that somebody found exciting, that I did with a student. They were able to have a conversation with that student without my knowledge, or without me there, where they still felt excited about it. That to me says that they liked the work and that the student is becoming more independent to bring that excitement to fruition. What would you like to achieve in your career? My ambitions for my career as a whole are not so focused on a particular research. I have research that excites me right now that I want to keep working on. Everything is important and I definitely want to make progress and impact. I have some faith in the community that through working together we can make progress. I’m happy to build workshops and tutorials to try and incentivize the community to work in those areas. I don’t necessarily feel that I have a particular ambition for myself as an individual to solve. What I do feel is there is a lot more work to be done in bringing access, resources, and mentorship to underrepresented groups. I especially focus on bringing access to women. Of course, there are some women trying to encourage them to continue in computer vision and computing at the top schools. At lots of other schools, they are sort of unseen because they don’t have a big name attached to them to promote them and help them succeed. That’s one thing I’d like to keep working on and hope that we can make a positive impact in the years to come. What’s your message for the CVPR Community? We’re in a big, competitive field, but we’re impacting a lot of people. Let’s try to stay focused on the positive impact we can have and how we can all work together to achieve that! Read more than 100 interviews with Women in Computer Vision! 24 DAILY CVPR Monday With Zoya Bylinskii and Kate Saenko Women in Computer Vision