Computer Vision News - January 2023

15 Elena Garcés this kind of tooling for artists so that they can develop the best of their art. I found that computer graphics and computer vision were the way to go. I have always been on the frontier between these two areas and I decided to do my thesis on this with Adobe. You said two things. One was about the process of studying these kinds of things. Andonewas about theoutcome: youwant the end product, the output text or image to be good. Which is more important? The process of studying computer science or the result of computer science? I reallywant to think about the application. I alwayshave theapplication inmindbecause I think that is what is powerful. I love to do research, and I love to advance science, but you always need to have some clear use case. I particularly love that my job can be used by somebody. It has a clear purpose. I guess that's why I'm into this company, because I really like to do things that work. That, tome, is themain difference between pure research in academia and research in the industry. In the industry, you really Elena, let's start from the beginning. You're not from Madrid. No, I'm originally from Zaragoza, a city nearby. Our readers already know an awesome female scientist from Zaragoza, Clara Fernandez. What was it like to grow up in Zaragoza as a young, talented future scientist? I always loved math. In my high school, I had a math teacher who was with us for six years. This man was also very much into programming, so I learned to code very young, and I really enjoyed it. Then it was clear to me that I wanted to study computer science. But this offered many possibilities: biocomputing, consulting, software engineering, or NLP, for example. Computer science is so broad that you can choose any of these. But then, when I started the degree, I was very much into photography and into visual effects. I realized that I wanted to work on tools that allow artists to improve their performance, to allow them to create better content, and create cooler things. I wanted to work on