CVPR Daily - Thursday

DAILY T h u r s d a y David Fouhey 14 That is a really nicemessage for people attending their first CVPR. Everyone can build their own Berkeley Crowd. Yes, they’re friends you don’t realise you have yet. Do you have a funny story from those days that you could share with our readers? I remember when Alyosha Efros would take us on a hike, he’d say, “It’ll be an hour,” and it’d always be like four hours! We would do things like there was a miniature train that he would take us on, and somehow, we’d always end up eating gelato. He had this uncanny ability to find gelato! These hikes would be outrageously long, and his estimates would be wildly inaccurate, but they were so much fun. I’d come home totally sunburnt but very happy! My message to people is make sure you take the time to do stuff like this because it’s really important. By having a career in academia, is that your way of not abandoning that world completely? Yes, I get to talk to people about all sorts of research problems all the time. I can work on all sorts of things. I‘m in heaven! I’m trying to do lots of different projects at the same time and it’s so much fun getting to have that experience with my students. An advisor-advisee relationship is not the same as you and your office mate, but there are similarities. You sit in the office and say, “What problems should we be solving?” Or, “Did you see this new thing on YouTube? How can we use that for computer vision?” It’s wonderful. Computer vision technology is evolving so fast. Where do you see things going next? People are really interested in 3D now, which is great. I got interested in 3D when it really didn’t work. Some of my old results are just horribly embarrassingly bad! It’s exciting. Because of deep nets now there’s stuff that you just couldn’t imagine. Justin Johnson is also at Michigan and he’s interested in 3D, so we have two students who we co-advise and it’s a lot of fun. Hike with Alyosha Efros