CVPR Daily - Tuesday

DAILY T u e s d a y Trevor Darrell 11 through airports and conference centers, hopefully that gives us some free time to be with our family. There’s so much going on in the world right now, from Covid to the protests, and all the injustices that have happened and are happening, so maybe this is a month or two to just reflect on and attend to all these very important issues for our society. What advice do you have for young researchers who will be coming to CVPR for the first time and are missing out on the in-person experience? It’s unfortunate that we can’t physically be at CVPR socializing, but the technical exchange will still happen. I’d advise young students to figure out how to go and see all the posters. Get the equivalent of walking the poster session virtually. The virtual meeting may even be more effective for that. At the physical venue, it can be difficult to see everything, and some posters get very crowded. Maybe in the future we’ll have the option for the best of both worlds. Many students over the years have benefitted from your teaching, but I am sure that you have also learned many things from them. Could you tell us something that has stuck with you? Everything I’ve learned is generally from one of my students. That’s the great privilege of being a professor. For example: the realization that domain adaptation was a huge problem in supervised learning. The work that I did with Kate Saenko a decade ago, who introduced that problem to me, “You have to constantly be trying things that are high risk because if you’re not doing things that are high risk, you’re not really doing world class fundamental research.” Former post-doc Kate Saenko