Computer Vision News - June 2022

26 Women in Computer Vision exciting. Of course, frustrating and stressful at times as well, when you have to graduate as a student. Even as a professional, you need to get some results, but it’s very exciting that you can do something for the first time. Whatever you’re working on is actually useful for a product or has some use hopefully for some positive application to improve people's quality of life or enjoyment of life. That has always been very important to me and has guided how I choose my project, the postdoc, and my full-time job. That has been the underlying theme, looking for work that is challenging, and innovative, where I can grow and also have an impact on products.  The more you choose challenging tasks, the higher the chance to fail. Didn’t that scare you?  Definitely, yes, but I think I was very lucky that this was a part of my job description to do research. We know that when we work on something new, that is challenging. A part of research is that oftentimes it doesn’t work. In many of the projects, either it did not work or the method I was pursuing did not work. We had to switch gears and make it work in a different way. I suppose this sort of fear or worry was always there. It was a part of the journey, and it was kind of expected that if things don’t work, that is a part of recent research. I wasn’t betting on a particular project. In the beginning, did you imagine yourself where you are now? Yes, that was my dream job! I have always For a very long time, I wanted to be where I am now.