Computer Vision News - May 2021

24 Women in Computer Vision Ester Gonzalez-Sosa works at Nokia Bell Labs in Spain as a research engineer. Ester, it is a big honor for me to have you today: I also have worked for Bell Labs; before this century, I am afraid. It was at the time of Lucent Bell Labs, a while ago. Many of my colleagues have worked in Lucent as well. I joined after Nokia bought the company. At the time when I worked there, there were 8 Nobel prizes at Bell Labs. How many are there now? Right now, if I’m not wrong, there must be at least 9. I met two of them! Oh really? Yes! I’m afraid I forgot their names. But they certainly forgot mine! What do you do at Nokia Bell Labs? My PhD background was more or less machine learning and computer vision applied to biometric recognition. Once I finished my PhD, I took this position, unexpectedly but fortunately for me. That day, they needed someone to provide machine learning expertise for virtual reality applications. My group had been working for a long time in video perception and video communications. Bell Labs in Madrid was created in 2016. I was doing that in October 2017. They "My grandfather Santiago initiated this business and my uncle runs it.”