Computer Vision News - July 2022

BEST OF CVPR 20 Women in Computer Vision management. Did you make the Olympics? I was an alternate for the Olympic team, so I did not make it. I am also a skater, but of a very different kind, an amateur rollerblader. There is almost no bone that I haven’t broken yet! So I envy you because you certainly did not break a lot. Not too many, but towards the end, I had a lot of injuries. Tell me something that you learned in sports that helps you daily, whether it be discipline, effort, companionship, or anything else.  I would say discipline. I would say goal setting. The fact that as an athlete, you can set a big goal like going to the Olympics, and it would take years, decades even, to get to that point. It was being able to break down the problem or the challenge into bite-size pieces so that you can eventually One of the things that I’ve learned from them is how to become a better mentor because everybody is different. They all have different approaches. They reach out in different ways, and it’s recognizing what makes these people tick. Do you make mistakes sometimes? Oh, always. But then also learning from them to avoid… … too much collateral damage? Yes, it’s true. You’ve succeeded in many impressive ways, including sports! Maybe you want to share something about that. It’s something I don’t talk very much about. It’s something that I attribute toa lot ofwhat I do now. I was a competitive figure skater on the US International figure skating team for several years. I think what I do now is nothing compared to when I was training and going to university at the same time. It gives me a really great perspective on time MBARI