Computer Vision News 18 Women in Computer Vision I applied to a program in machine learning in Dublin, but it was very competitive, and I was put on a waiting list. A few months afterwards, a professor reached out to me that he was impressed by my interview, and he wanted me to work with him on a project. This project is with a company called Xperi. They have offices in Europe and US. As part of the arrangements, I would do my PhD at Dublin City University, and automatically, I am part of the Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, but also, as part of my PhD, I would move to their company to work for two years. Their company deals in a lot of computer vision applications for cars, for smart homes, and the current project I am working on is about trying to detect microsleep. Microsleep happens when people are driving, or you are just seated, and then you doze off for five minutes, and then you can’t even believe that you slept. This has led to a lot of accidents. What I am trying to do is to use EEG signals and also just images and videos of people that have been simulated driving and sleeping, and then we try to predict when the microsleep will happen and how long it would occur. That’s where we can implement a system to trigger when someone is going into microsleep. That’s the topic I’m working on for myPhD. We are trying to use a different type of data called data from event cameras. Event cameras are new in the vision system, and the type of data it provides is different from the data we have from traditional cameras. Event cameras give us more data. We can see when a change in brightness occurred, we can see the direction of the brightness change and everything. This is why we are trying to use event cameras, traditional cameras, and EEG signals to predict when a microsleep would occur. I’m still at the early stages of my PhD, so I have been asked to just do some experiments to get used to how event camera data works. For instance, right now, I’mworking on trying to replicate a paper that tries to do eye blink detection. We try to estimate attention level from eye blink detection, and the data is from an event camera. Can you tell us more about those moments when you wanted to give up? How did you handle them? I was telling one of my friends when we were in my master’s project, he would ask me, what is my next step after here? I would tell himI’mnot even thinking about my next steps. I just want to solve this maths question, and I’mhappy
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