Computer Vision News - May 2020

3 Summary Séverine Cloix 39 Do you want to share more about your work? For the moment, I’mworking in industry. What I can really bring as a scientist to the industry is that I understand the new technologies. Because today they really think that it is just a tool, but they need to learn about the methodology behind it. This is something that they don’t have. This is something I seek here in my current mission and certainly in the future ones as well. I’m here to help them understand why it works, or why it doesn’t, and to make it work very well. You will remain in industry, right? I am remaining in industry now. You chose not to be a teacher. So the universe was right! [ both laugh ] Where does the universe look better, in France or in Switzerland? I don’t know everywhere in France. At the moment, I’m okay with being here. I have my position, my family, and my friends. It’s difficult to compare to something that I don’t know. Yes, indeed. Can I ask you why? I didn’t do the PhD to be a teacher! [ laughs ] I did the PhD because, at first, I wanted to learn more about computer vision. It was a very good chance. I think my choice of doing a PhD was completely different from others. In academia, there are not many roles open so it would be really naive to say that you would do a PhD to be a teacher. Is there anything that you would like to add? Even when people face difficulties, I think they should keep on being confident in what they do. I think it's very important to carry on with faith in being happy. This is what I say to my children, my two daughters. I am really happy to be a woman in this industry. There are a lot of men, to be honest! I try to find my space for me. Like the small village of Asterix… [ both laugh ] I see that you have many girls in your family. You have sisters, and you have daughters. Yes, we don’t have a lot of men. I don’t know why. That’s just the way genetics decided to work. "My patience really has paid off." “I was like: this is a square peg. A square peg doesn’t go into a round hole. That’s not possible!”