Computer Vision News - December 2021

13 ImageNet: past, present, and future Speakers include a great friend of our magazine, Olga Russakovsky , one of the original creators of ImageNet, who can speak about its origins. Olga was so kind to give us a hint about her talk: “ PhD student Kaiyu Yang and I are talking about our joint workwith JacquelineYau , KlintQinami , Fei- Fei Li and Jia Deng on ‘fairness and privacy aspects of ImageNet.’ We will reflect on the history of the dataset and the field of large- scale visual recognition and discuss some of our recent work on filtering and balancing the ImageNet dataset (more details here ).” There will also be a talk by independent researcher Ross Wightman , who is very famous on GitHub for creating the timm package , which has 15,000 GitHub stars. He is an expert on training ImageNet from the engineering side, so there will be a lot to learn from him. “ All the ingredients of our workshop are fascinating, but the speakers in particular will be so exciting for everyone, ” Sangdoo tells us. “ We’ll also have a panel discussion with all the speakers together, which will be extra special. The audience is sure to learn many insights from these field-leading researchers. ” Sangdoo’s fellow organizers are a diverse bunch too, each with a unique perspective on ImageNet. Five, including Sangdoo, are from Naver; two are from Google; and two are from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Looking to the future of the workshop, Sangdoo has one thing to say: watch this space! “ We’ve put all our ideas into this year’s workshop, so haven’t given a lot of thought yet to another one, but we’re talking about the possibility of making it annual, ” he teases. “ We’ll be discussing next steps afterwards. The most important thing is the future of ImageNet. Maybe we can hold a next generation ImageNet workshop next year… maybe! ”