Computer Vision News - October 2021

51 Catarina Barata Best of MICCAI 2021 higher numbers. In my class, it’s not half-half, but things are definitely changing. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a female supervisor. I work on other medical applications as well. We also do security, surveillance, and fire detection as well. Maybe that engages the female students a little bit more. Do they choose you or do you choose them? They apply, and then I choose. I don’t choose based on gender. That’s not something I want for me as well. I choose based on who is best for the position. Do you ever see students making mistakes that you made when you were in their shoes? [ laughs ] Yes! Often! One of the biggest things that I see that happens often in class is when they try to program something for the first time. It works, and all of a sudden, they just change a little bit and everything stops working. I remember myself when I was doing my Master’s thesis. It worked, and then I changed the resolution of the image just a little bit. It stopped working, and I was like, “ Oh my God! It doesn’t work anymore! ” Students are exactly the same. People get very scared! [ laughs ] What is the largest class that you have? We have theoretical classes where the number of students is higher. Then we have small lab classes, where the connection with the students is closer. In those classes, we have like 30 students. How do you find yourself speaking to an audience of 30 people? Does it come naturally? I’m very talkative! People use to tell me that I’m a good communicator. I don’t know if that’s true. When I’m in the classroom with 30 people, I feel that it’s closer so I can approach almost each one of them individually. That’s something that I like. I teach these classes in shifts, and each shift will be different. The students will have different capabilities and different backgrounds.