ECCV 2022 - Wednesday

[ We laugh ] That’s a good question! I guess I spent some years in Germany. I set roots here. Now, my son is here. Yeah, it just happened! Germany provides many resources for researchers, which was attractive. That is something we can say to every country: if you don’t want the brain drain, invest in your science! Yes, definitely. If Barcelona had the same resources, I probably wouldn’t have left because I very much like being there. Finally, our community has been separated for a couple of years – we reunited first at CVPR, and now here we are at ECCV. Many students will be attending their first in-person conference. Do you have a message for them? I know the community has changed recently. There are a lot of papers, many more papers than we have time to read. That puts much stress on students. I want them to enjoy the journey of doing a PhD. If they work hard and believe in their ideas, eventually, it will pay off. But we all fail. It only works out a few times out of many. All those papers that we’re seeing are exceptions. It’s not like you just come up with the idea that works. That doesn’t happen every day. They should know that we all have struggles at work and beyond work. Right now, I have to balance taking care of my son between trying to prepare presentations and this interview. Students will have their own struggles. Nothing is as easy as it looks! 13 Gerard Pons-Moll