Computer Vision News - September 2020

2 Spotlight Presentation 52 In the real world, this work could be used for artistic purposes and content creation . It is not quite at a level where it could generate movies, but certainly simple animations and video games, and Dario expects this to improve in the next few years. Dario is entering the field of deep learning at a point where it is booming. How does he feel to be a researcher in 2020? “I think I started at exactly the right time because this field is pretty recent. It started in 2012 with AlexNet – the ImageNet recognition challenge. I started my PhD three years ago, but I had already been doing research one or two years prior to that in machine learning. If you think back 10 years, you could never have imagined models that generate photorealistic images or that can recognize objects. I am so excited to see what is going to happen in the future. There is still a lot of work to do in this direction. Everyone should jump on the 3D train !” "… models have failed or produced unexpectedly funny results …" Best of ECCV 2020