Computer Vision News - January 2021

Did he find a way to help you pay more attention to details? One thing we did in my PhD was to design all kinds of ablation studies, to really understand all of the components and all the design choices and algorithm components, to go deeper into themath itself. That was very helpful, especially for my first and second project. I remember that he gave me feedback on every experiment I designed, starting on my very first deadline in my PhD. I talked to him every day. He spent lots of time, which was very valuable for me. How do you work so quickly on such technically difficult problems? That was a comment from Bernt a long time ago. I think I’m a fast learner. [ laughs ] Also, I can really concentrate and be productive if my goal is very clear. Whe n I interviewed Yoshua Bengio , he said, “I am not more clever than the others. I am just more focused.” You are telling me quite the same thing! Yes, I think so. I can really concentrate and make good progress. 22 Women in Computer Vision “Bernt taught me from the very beginning how to do research”