Computer Vision News - September 2019

Women in Computer Vision 26 Do you like teaching and do you miss it now? I think it is fun to teach, especially when you can do it and teach something you really like. You can motivate others to get into it and like it too. I guess you could miss it, but it is fine for me not to teach. What do you like the most about your career? When I started, it seemed that a lot of computer vision topics were still not quite solved. About 10 years ago, I started taking classes in computer vision, and with a lot of these topics, there were some solutions for it, but many problems were not in a solved state. Now, in the last 10 years, it has massively evolved to it being more and more applied, and more topics are in the state of being solved. I enjoy that a lot, to be in this area where research is finalized, creative, and pushed towards industry, and it works. I enjoy it! Most of my readers know Vienna but certainly not as well as you do. Tell us something about Vienna or what you like about it. Vienna is a great city to live in. It has great transportation systems, infrastructure, and good communities. It is a good place to live. Is there anything that you would like to bring from Denmark and put in Vienna? There is an interesting way in Denmark to engage with people and celebrate certain events. I had the impression that people are very happy about that. That was something pretty unique. I have seen in the way they do those things in Denmark which could improve in Vienna. Maybe our Austrian readers will read this, and they will adopt it because of you! Do you plan to work directly for an industrial company or are you still good doing research? Right after my master’s thesis, I went to an R&D department. I was working there doing computer