CVPR Daily - Monday

That was really exciting. I’d still be interested in getting back into that at some point, but I felt the impact that I could make in the imaging domain was somewhat limiting when you are working that close with the end application. I wanted to have more of an impact. So I decided to focus more on the fundamental technical issues. You mentioned some of the people who inspired you the most. Did you meet anyone at Berkeley who also inspired you? Everyone around me. Berkeley is an amazing place because it pools together a lot of really amazingly smart, nice people. The people that were around me at the time were all amazing and have gone on to do great things. Sitting right around me were people like Georgia Gkioxari, who I know you’ve done a feature on before. Yes, I did! You were in that feature, if I remember correctly. [ laughs ] I saw that! It was an open floor plan there, so a lot of us sat together and got to know each other. It was great because there were people from robotics, vision, NLP, and machine learning, all sitting together. We all talked to each other all the time. From NLP, there was Greg Durrett. He’s a good friend of mine. In Trevor’s group, there were Ning Zhang, Eric Tzeng, Evan Shelhamer, and Jeff Donahue, a bunch of different people. We all would just chat about research all the time. It made it a really fun and inspiring environment. What was the most inspiring lesson you learned while at Berkeley? I don’t think there’s one thing. What’s coming to my mind right now is not even about research. This is especially 21 DAILY CVPR Monday Judy Hoffman Judy at graduation with Jon Long, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Georgia Gkioxari