Computer Vision News - July 2018

with oracles about the future of the automotive industry. In addition to the keynote speakers, we invited the best paper submissions with novel or recently published work to WiCV as oral presentations. The main goal of these sessions is to give female students an opportunity to give a research talk in a professional and supportive setting. You can reach the papers online, and check out the program for the list of oral and poster presentations. The poster session went really well with many researchers in the general poster area stopping by to ask questions, so we can assume that we achieved our goal to increase visibility of female researchers beyond the WiCV room. The workshop also included a panel, where inclusion and diversity topics was discussed in an open and friendly environment between female and male colleagues. In addition to the keynotes and mentorship speakers as panelists, we had Michael Black and Jitendra Malik as our male panelists. We had many challenging questions from the committee and from the audience, such as the role of male allies, family pressure based on gender roles, the clique culture in CVPR, changes in hiring pipelines, and personal experiences of panelists regarding failures and impostor syndrome. In all cases the flow of the conversation was always friendly and joyful, under my moderation. You can watch, learn, and enjoy the panel here (I even send salutations to my family after the question of Andrew Fitzgibbon from the audience). I think such conversations should become more usual and less challenging if we want to bring and include everyone at the table. With the panel, we concluded WiCV 2018. We believe that WiCV 2018 will be a great accomplishment for presenters, participants and organizers towards a more connected community to overcome the ongoing gender imbalance in the workforce and its side effects. With first-time proceedings, a Friday 49 WiCV Workshop WiCV poster sessionwith the participation of general CVPR attendees.