Computer Vision News - March 2023

19 Duygu Tosun-Turgut Sometimes, things stay on the surface rather than really getting deeper. If you had the magic wand, what would be one specific thing that you would change in science? Maybe just figure out a way to reduce funding pressure and produce science, just keeping those a little bit more separate. Right now, though, that goes really hand in hand. Sometimes it just turns into more like an industry rather than a really idealistic scholarly environment. Not every position, not every institute is what we call hard money, right? They don't have a tenure position, so they really rely on grant funding. If we could find a balance on that, rather than pressuring people to constantly producing ideas and selling them… just stepping back and questioning why we're doing this. … And how do you rate the integrity of science now? [ laughs ] It's more accessible. Compared to my PhD years, science is definitely more accessible, which is great! So, if you're interested in the topic, you can always find something to read or learn how it is done. You can watch a YouTube video and everything. Also, data is more accessible because we really advocate for open data sharing: it's not our data, it's people's data, and we owe it to science to make it available! There is also more production happening both in terms of papers and new projects and at a very fast pace. And that pressure in science, especially in academia! At the end of the day, your performance is still mostly assessed based on your product activity in terms of your papers or your grant-funded grants, with everything being more accessible, more people working on similar ideas. It's a bigger competition, and I think that puts lots of pressure and leads to some unfinished ideas being published. Nowadays, it's even more important to be more critical when we are reading things or when we are assessing what's happening in the literature. It's good to see that we are moving forward. But at the same time, the pace is so fast, and people are constantly trying to catch up with everything. It is the integrity of science that is the most important thing in our careers! Over 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Computer Vision in our archive!