Computer Vision News - November 2021

2 Summary Wo en in Computer Vision 38 Best of ICCV 2021 the opportunity to study abroad. I found that interesting! I wanted to give it a try. Then I started to prepare for English exams. Then in my last year of undergraduate, I joined a pattern recognition lab just by chance. Then I started to learn more about biometrics. That’s also something I was very interested in, and I wanted to study that topic in graduate school. I applied to 10 different universities for the PhD program. Is that a lot? I think it’s about average. People do that. But, for me, I only got admitted to one university. I’m very grateful. I didn’t have a strong profile at that time. I am very grateful for my PhD. Professor Xiaoming Liu gave me tremendous support during those five years to prepare me for work after I graduated. Do you think that it’s sheer luck that brought you to this point? There must have been something intentional about your career path. I have been thinking about that actually. I want to use a quote here from Linus Torvalds, who is the father of the Linux system. He has made a tremendous impact on the software industry. He said, " There are people who are looking at the stars and saying I want to get there. Those are visionary people. I am looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of “You should treat people the way they want to be treated.…”