Computer Vision News - July 2016

CVPR Daily: Where do you come from, Eleanor? Eleanor: I’m from Auckland, New Zealand . CVPR Daily: Did you come so far for CVPR? Eleanor: Yea, my company decided to send two of us, another girl as well. CVPR Daily: Especially for CVPR? Eleanor: Especially for CVPR. CVPR Daily: We are very much honored! Eleanor: We did another visit to our headquarters which is in Ohio, and I’ve got two days off in San Francisco just to explore the States. CVPR Daily: And what do you do in your company? Eleanor: I work in the computer vision team, and we work on indoor localization with a team of four people, and I work with Machine Learning and also part of the commissioning process. CVPR Daily: Why did you choose to work in computer vision? What did you like in this science? 10 Women in Computer Vision Eleanor da Fonseca “ There were just infinite possibilities. So I thought it would be a cool career pathway ” BEST OF CVPR DAILY: UNPUBLISHED Computer vision is going everywhere: it will be in our cars, our homes, our search engines, our hospitals. It will be used to assist the disabled, to do social analysis, to save lives, to increase food production. To fully achieve such broad and diverse impact, we will need to build an equally broad and diverse community of researchers: diverse in geographic origin, education, gender, race, socioeconomic background, life experiences, personal missions. Eleanor da Fonseca came to CVPR from as far as New Zealand , but for technical reasons her interview could not be published in any CVPR Daily . Here it is, a little portion of CVPR, visible only to the readers of Computer Vision News .