Computer Vision News - March 2021

you are a professor in science. How do these passion and science work together? If you are not passionate, you cannot do good research. You will feel bored at some point. Every once in a while, you will face a big wall that you didn’t think about before. You really have to be passionate about what you do for good research. You need… persistence. This wall, I am sure you find yourself against it sometimes, during your work, your studies, your teaching… Sure! How do you deal with it? The first thing I do is try to step back, think about what I did, and what I already explored. Then, if I cannot find a way myself, I talk to colleagues. By sharing the issues you are facing, they can try to give you some tips or a new point of view that you didn’t explore. Then you can go back and try to face the issue. It’s the same for research. It’s the same for teaching. If you have a difficultmoment that youare facingwith students, maybe it’s because you didn’t realize that there was something they were expecting from you, something that you didn’t give them, or something that you are expecting from them that they cannot give you. You need to step back and talk. Are your colleagues happy to cooperate? In the global research community, we are colleagues, and the people are very nice with each other. I rarely face people who did not want to talk about something. I think the community is quite nice. So people are competing for the same Nobel prize, but it’s too far away to worry about it now. Yeah! And people who are competing for the Nobel prize know that they cannot do it by themselves. They have to collaborate. 327 Stéphanie Allassonnière “What we need to do is really bridge the gap between the communities!”