ECCV 2016 Daily - Wednesday

own labs. That person doesn’t even need to be a female. It could be a very understanding male boss. That can also work. You just need somebody to discuss these issues. ECCV Daily: Do you know any woman scientist who gave up that direction because of this? Zeynep: No, I can’t think of anyone at the moment. ECCV Daily: Do you have any special dreams now? Zeynep: Becoming a professor. I want to teach because I like to be around young people and students. It’s a sense of community service for me. I feel satisfied and fulfilled. Academia is not only about teaching. I can also continue doing my research. ECCV Daily: What would you like to achieve? Zeynep: To have taken part in a project like building intelligent machines. I want them to be more intelligent in a general way. Intelligent, not only on this application, but also generalized to many different application. ECCV Daily: Do you think you can achieve that? Zeynep: Not me alone, but with a good team, I can. ECCV Daily: Will machines become more clever than us? Zeynep: I don’t think so, but you never know. ECCV Daily: If you could give a feature from a human to a machine, which one would you give it? Zeynep: This is a very difficult question. To talk to me, to have a discussion. An autonomous discussion. I wouldn’t like to build a silent robot. ECCV Daily: That machine could have an autonomous discussion because it has emotions or because it has an intellect? Zeynep: Not emotions, intellect. Instead of searching on my own on Wikipedia for what I want, I can just ask a robot, and that robot is going to explain to me what I want. ECCV Daily: Which is not so different from what Google does now? Zeynep: Yes, but it’s still not that unconstrained. I want it to be as unconstrained as possible. ECCV Daily: When do you see that happening? Zeynep: Maybe in 10 years. ECCV Daily: Enough time to work and make that happen. Good luck! “ I wouldn’t like to build a silent robot ” 14 ECCV Daily: Wednesday Women in Computer Vision