Computer Vision News - February 2017

Tali, how did you develop your passion for both technology and the sea? Crossroads in my career led me to this direction. First of all, when I finished my undergraduate studies, I knew I wanted to pursue an academic career, but I didn’t know exactly in which direction. I went to work in a startup, and after a year I quit to go traveling in South America. Then I did a divemaster course and spent a few months training as a divemaster and assistant instructor. I also worked in that for a little bit in Belize and Colombia. When I was in Colombia, my best friend emailed me. She knew I wanted to return and start my Master’s. She said it was too late to register. I quickly registered anyway for biomedical engineering, though I still wasn’t sure. When I returned to Israel, I knew I wanted to do something with imaging. I had to do some complementary courses because I hadn’t done my undergrad there. I started doing some undergrad courses. Meanwhile, I completed the diver instructor certification. I started working at that as 12 Computer Vision News Women in Computer Vision Tali Treibitz - University of Haifa Women in Science We continue our series of interviews with women in computer vision . This new section, which we started with the CVPR Daily at CVPR 2016 , hopes to help mitigate the severe gender imbalance in the computer vision community by getting to know better some remarkable female scientists and their career paths. This month, we interview Tali Treibitz , who is currently Head of the Marine Imaging Lab, in the Department for Marine Technologies, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa . “ It is deep. It has strong currents, and there are many sharks… ”