Computer Vision News - November 2016

Ralph Anzarouth: I am interviewing now Octavia Camps. For me it is a double pleasure, since it follows the chance I had of interviewing one of her students for the latest CVPR Daily: Àngels Ratés Borràs, who told me so many nice things about Octavia . So thanks to ECCV for making this happen and thank you Octavia for being with us. Octavia Camps: First of all, thank you for the interview. It is a pleasure to be here. Ralph: You have done a lot of work by yourself in creating so many models, and you have supervised your students to invent even more models. After so many years, what drives your curiosity to keep inventing? Do you have moments when you lose your sense of curiosity? Octavia: What I really strive for is to have something that is going to be really useful and have an impact in our daily lives. One of the works that I’m most interested in right now is visual surveillance. What surprised when I started talking to people at airports, for example, is that most cameras are there watching people, but there isn’t any video analytics going on. There is not much automatic processing of that video. It’s just relying on people. We’re doing such great things here at the conference. Everything is getting flashier and better, but when you try to apply that to real world problems with poor quality video from surveillance cameras, it doesn’t work as much. I really want to think of work in the real world, not in the curated data basis that we are collecting. We have come a “ We include an anatomy-based eyeball model and computer animation techniques ” 24 Interview with Octavia Camps “It’s not about one more paper” BEST OF ECCV