Computer Vision News - March 2021

Why is it the right time in your career to contribute to industry, on the software side? This was more of an opportunity. When the PhD ended, Rémi had, not an MVP (minimal value project), but something that was actually working in real-time. So talking with medical doctors we had been working with for a long time, we said, “What can we do for people to use it?” The only answer was that we have to create a real product and sell it. Otherwise, if you just say, “Well, we have a good publication! Look! Look! Look! We have a great open-source program that is working on any laptop!” , nobody will use it. In science, many people will say that they have something. If you are not going through the whole pipeline of certification, clinical trials, etc., then no one will trust your product completely. Then you naturally enter in the other part of the development, which is really the company development. So, trying to put research into the industry is something that really helps you promote your product. One last question. You have done so many things in your studies and publications. If I had to take everything away, and leave one thing of which you are particularly proud, what would you keep? Good question! Well, I’m proud of achieving something that I really want to keep: the balance between real applications and theoretical developments. What I’m the most proud of is that I have always been able to do very nice math, that is theoretical and fundamental, just beside hard applications, like Sonio. Also, I’m working with radiologists, doing interventional radiology for cancers. I have always been able to keep this balance. That’s the thing I’m most proud of. 331 Stéphanie Allassonnière “Look! Look! Look! We have a great open-source program that is working on any laptop!”