Computer Vision News - November 2021

3 Summary 11 Raquel Urt sun many papers, received many awards, was very successful, which was great, but I wasn’t making a direct impact by bringing this technology to life. The moment I joined industry it was a game changer. I didn’t leave research – we continue to publish and share with the community – but in the sense that not only are we solving difficult problems that we find challenging and are excited to solve, but we’re actually going to change the world! This is such a unique thing. I hope more and more people will join us in our quest to solve self-driving. Do you have any final thoughts to share? I believe it’s very important if you want to solve such a complex task that you have a diversity of perspectives because if we all think the same, we won’t challenge each other and we won’t build the best technology. It’s by having different opinions and sharing those opinions and discussing and debating one another that we build better and better technology. We need lots of new ideas. This is why research is fantastic. We need a diversity of backgrounds to come up with different ideas. We need diverse teams to be able to provide that and we need to serve the diversity of our customers. That’s the other bit that is very new and not really talked about. This is a very non-diverse field and that needs to change. A young girl from the Asturias and a little guy from Northern Italy are talking about the future of the world: it means that opportunities are not missed! [ both laugh ] Thank you so much, Raquel, for a wonderful interview. You gave us diamonds! Thanks Ralph. My pleasure as always to see you and to discuss with you! “Despite the pandemic, the world is full of opportunities foreverybodythat is reading this interviewtoshine!” Canadian Business Magazine, Studio Wyse, photo Miguel Arenillas.

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