15 Computer Vision News Yeah, exactly. Why did I write a history instead of another technical paper? I think what’s interesting about computer vision is that we’re having a lot of discussions about its impact on society, and you can’t really talk about that in a CVPR paper [Walter laughs]. CVPR reviewers, they’re not going to accept that. You just don’t have the room to tell that story. I thought it would be a fun project to become a historian of technology myself because I know how the technology works, so I can have an advantage when I’m writing about it from a social perspective because I’m not going to misunderstand its capabilities. I have deeper connections to the technologists who created the technologies in many cases, and I just wanted to explore the social aspect in a nonconventional way. The book was the way to do that. Luckily, I found a publisher that was very supportive of that. Notre Dame was very supportive of this project, too, knowing it would be important. It’s very different from what ordinary computer vision researchers do, but I think that’s important. Do you have plans to delve further into this topic in the coming years? Yeah, absolutely. This is not just a one-and-done book. Given especially the very positive reception and also the enormous interest in this project, I think I’m going to be working more in this direction in the future. There’s a huge opening. I feel like computer vision is just developing the algorithms and publishing the paper. The more we interface with the public, the more we’re going to need this sort of work to communicate what is actually happening. Is there anything else our readers should know? I think the computer vision community is going to love the book. I’ve already received a lot of comments from people who have been reading it, and they really enjoy it. There’s a lot of new stuff, a lot of new storytelling. There are many original interviews. This is not just a superficial look at this topic; it’s very deep with a lot of new stuff. I think people should just have fun with it. It’s a very fun book! A History of Fake Things …
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