Rita Pucci is a postdoc at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, that is a natural history museum in Leiden in the Netherlands. She is also the first author of a paper that was accepted as a poster at WACV 2025 - CE-VAE: Capsule Enhanced Variational AutoEncoder for Underwater Image Enhancement. Rita, in a few weeks you will be an assistant professor. Congratulations in advance! Thank you! I hope they don't change their mind until then. I hope not. I already signed the contract. Okay, so there is a contract. What is your work about? My work is mainly focused on computer vision. I always want to use computer vision for animals, for biodiversity, for understanding if I can help, together with computer vision biologists, to better understand nature - because I love nature very much. That was my compromise to work in biology without being a biologist. Read 160 FASCINATING interviews with Women in Computer Vision Women in Computer Vision 20 DAILY WACV Monday
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