Computer Vision News - August 2022

23 ICVSS 2022 in Sicily “ We had a Telegram channel to communicate with all the students, and our last message was, ‘Sorry, something is wrong. We’re missing you already! ’ It’s the highlight of the year for our team to work on this event for the community. ” Students occasionally return to the school if they come back with the industry or as a postdoc, but generally, an entirely new group is given the opportunity each time . Diversity in the selection process is critical. The team tries to provide access to as many groups as possible. A third of the students are female. What is the one thing Giovanni would add to the school if he could? “ A laboratory, ” he answers immediately. “ This is something we can’t do because of the number of students and the difficulty of arranging it. It’s just too complicated. We’re not in a university. We tried a couple of times in 2012 and 2013, but it wasn’t manageable, and we had to stop it. We’d need more time and facilities to do it. ” Giovanni and his fellow directors, Roberto Cipolla and Sebastiano Battiato , are already thinking about the scientific content for ICVSS 2023 . The planning will begin in earnest later this year. Finally, we ask what the secret to the school’s success is in the hope that it could be bottled for others who wish to replicate it. Antonino has the perfect response: “ Hold their school in Sicily – that helps a lot! ”