Computer Vision News - May 2022

18 Women in Computer Vision understanding how people explore virtual environments andhowpeople interactwith virtual reality in different ways. These days, virtual reality has become a huge thing. The hardware is getting better and better. It’s already pretty good, but I’m confident that it will just keep getting better. One thing that is going a bit slower is content creation: we were just trying in virtual reality whatever we knew about regular video games, regular cinematography. That may work, but it may not be the best way of exploiting the capabilities of virtual reality. When movies started, one of the first movies, Arrival of a Train by the Lumière Brothers, was very, very different from the films we have today. Cinematography evolved, and content creation also has to evolve. What I’m doing today is coming up with questions that are interesting. For example, one work we did not long ago was about cinematic virtual reality. What happens when you have a cut? When you work on movies, you have one scene, cut, then move to another. What happens in virtual reality? You’re suddenly getting teleported somewhere else. We come up with these questions. We try to see what happens and how people perceive this. Most of my work is devoted to trying to I would say it’s a combination of talents. I don’t think of myself as a brilliant person, but I have a combination that makes me a good researcher. I am very curious. This is also common if you do research. I like to know how things work. I like to dig deeper. Also, perseverance as we mentioned. One thing that helped me a lot is to be very organized. It doesn’t sound very impressive, but it helps me a lot when there are tons of papers to read and tons of tasks. I am very organized. I ammeticulous with everything I do. I don’t think any of these talents are exclusive. Most people that do research have these talents.  Yoshua Bengio told me: I’m not smarter than other researchers, but I’m able to focus a lot! I agree. Of course, you need to have ideas and know how to carry out these ideas. Personally, I don’t think that brilliance is necessary. There are many other things that are important. Can you tell us more about your work at your lab? I would like to talk about the virtual reality part of it. I enjoy everything, but I am more excited about this work. It’s newer and trending now. I’m interested in Graphics & Imaging Lab