Computer Vision News - February 2021

331 W4PR people with each other. It was a great opportunity to know the academic situation in different countries and interact with researchers from all over the world. The workshop ended with a panel discussion on recent successes and upcoming challenges for women in a male-dominated field. My personal take-home message from the workshop: while there is still a discrepancy between male and female researchers in faculty positions, wehave done and are still doing a lot to foster the presence of women in our field. Promoting this equality is extremely important, but to do so, we cannot simply apply the strategy of treating women as a “ protected species in pattern recognition ”: this is too simplistic and thus, not viable. For this reason, the organization of these events is a special occasion to highlight the technical contributions of women to the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition and to create a large network in which all researchers, both men and women, can exchange ideas and interact with each other. Hope to see you at the next ICPR in Montreal, hopefully in-presence and with the 2 nd Women at ICPR Workshop! Do you believe that women can be great AI scientists? We also do. Here are 100 of them, in their own words!