Computer Vision News - November 2021

3 Summary 35 Alejandro Pardo Best of ICCV 2021 Now they have conquered the first step, the team are not stopping there. They have plenty of ideas for extending this work. Alejandro would like to explore the types of cuts that are made by editors, which depends on a number of factors, such as the editor themselves, the director, and the style of the movie. Horror movies will tend to employ different cuts to romances, for example. “ If we were able to condition the method so that it’s not just general, but can learn some kind of artistic style, that would be awesome and would give us a much, much finer solution to the problem, ” Alejandro points out. Originally from Colombia, Alejandro ended up studying in Saudi Arabia when the opportunity arose during his master’s in 2017. “ I heard there were opportunities to attend university in Saudi Arabia and I was just saying yes to any option that was out there! ” he laughs. “ It just happened that Bernard was happy to have me as a visiting student. We developed something super nice. I applied and decided to come here for my PhD because I really like the environment here in KAUST. Life here is very chill and the people are super nice too. ” As well as this poster, Alejandro’s team are running the AI for Creative Video Editing and Understanding (CVEU) workshop at ICCV on Sunday, which will bring together people from around the globe who are working on creative video editing and understanding. Everyone is warmly invited to attend what promises to be an interesting day!