Computer Vision News - June 2022

24 Women in Computer Vision Ewa Nowara is a research scientist at Meta. She has a PhD from the Rice Computational Imaging Group, where she worked with Ashok Veeraraghavan. More than 100 inspiring stories of Women in Computer Vision here! Ewa, where are you from? I am Polish. Many years ago, maybe 700 years ago, my family supposedly originated from Italy so the last name is Italian, but it is with a Polish spelling. We have many generations just from Poland.  It rings a bell withme because I am Italian. Let’s start with your current work. Can you tell us what you do? I just started at Meta about three months ago. I don’t have a lot to share yet. I’m still learning as I go. I am working in an applied research team. We do research and come up with new ideas for enhancing the AR and VR experience. We also are interested in putting our ideas into products. It’s an interesting, exciting, unique position. It’s in between where you get to do innovative creative research and publish papers, but at the same time, you can see your work realized in products. My position builds a lot on my past research in computer vision about scene understanding, extracting information from images and from video. Prior to coming to Meta, I was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University where I worked with Rama Chellappa on geolocalization. Given a single RGB image taken anywhere, maybe from your window in your house, we wanted to determine where that