heard that Geoff Hinton would come in the morning and talk to his daughter and say, “I think I finally know how the brain works.” I think this can be something very bonding, and I also have thought about really sharing your passion with your kids, if you have kids, as opposed to trying to cut them out of this because this is your passion. It’s the same with your friends. You want to share your passion. It’s good to share it with your kids. Do you bring any of your Greek legacy to your career? I think one of the Greek legacies is that even in very stressful times, we crack many jokes. Would you tell me one of these jokes now? Oh, these jokes are just workrelated. They’re very contextrelevant to what we’re discussing on the Slack channel with the students. [she laughs] Okay, so there is no one joke that relates to what you and I are doing now? Oh, I see. Well, I can’t come up with a good one now! [we both laugh] And we only want good ones! As Takeo Kanade says, a good joke is like good research. It also releases stress if you can joke around. We are at ICLR, but I might publish this interview at CVPR. What brought you to be a Program Chair at ICLR, and what can vision people take away from here? ICLR is my favorite conference because it’s exactly on the topic of deep learning for language, vision, and action. It has all these topics together, so it is very diverse. In that respect, maybe CVPR is more specialized. What can CVPR take from ICLR? For sure, something that it took already is the OpenReview interface, which I think is absolutely incredible, and we should definitely keep it. I hope other vision conferences also use it. Maybe the rebuttal discussion period. I don’t remember if we had this at CVPR. I’m not sure if there was a back and forth between reviewers and authors. The topics are different between ICLR and CVPR, but the way they’re run is quite similar because they use OpenReview. I think this is important. You are involved in many other things. I know that you have been involved recently in diversity and inclusion at CVPR, for instance. What are the things that you will 21 DAILY CVPR Thursday “Research is challenging because it requires complete devotion, I believe!” Katerina Fragkiadaki
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