Computer Vision News - November 2016

Ralph Anzarouth: Michael, we have grown up in pretty much the same time in the 60s and 70s, when we thought that airplanes, TVs, and land phones were giant steps towards progress. Also now, we think that we are witnessing huge technology progress, as if we could hardly can go any further. Will technology advancement keep following an exponential curve? Michael Black: It’s an interesting question. It’s hard to think about our time and previous times and how to relate them. Have you ever been to the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart? It’s a fantastic museum because it places the automobile in the context of human society. The museum starts with the invention of the motor car, and you see what’s happening in society at the time. Then you follow it throughout our modern history. You see how the car influences and has been influenced by it; just the change in people’s lives during the 100 years after the motor car was introduced is astounding to me. “We always feel that, in the time we’re in, we’re experiencing something extraordinary and that our experience is different and unique” 16 Interview with Michael Black BEST OF ECCV