25 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News applications. Don't you feel that you put a lot of pressure on yourself within these very first years of your career? No! Because I started as a researcher at HHI and actually it's quite usual that people who start at a Fraunhofer Institute are also pursuing their PhD. I think it was a little bit easier for me because Peter Eisert, my group leader at that time, was also a professor at the university. So it was like working on some research projects, but the theoretical work that I was doing in the research projects, I could directly put into my PhD. And this is actually the goal that I also have with my PhD students, that they have their work in their research projects and they can use the same work, the theoretical work for their PhD projects. Peter is now coheading the research group with me and also the department. So we are working very close together. Of your first years of your career, which is the one thing that you are the most proud of? I actually studied electrical engineering with medical applications. And I did my diploma in that field. That was the first time that I did computer vision. I came from the medical application and I wanted to do some researchoriented diploma thesis. Well, that was the first research project I worked on completely by myself. And that was the first publication and the first conference I went to. This is probably the turning point, because I decided then to also do a PhD in computer vision and also work in applied research. Did any of what you worked on then arrive to the market or to the operating room or to the clinics? I don't know exactly, but I guess some parts of it. At least they were developed further. I did my diploma thesis at Philips Medical and they have a big research department. I know there were several people working on that topic. It was about the estimation of the deformation of the lung during the breathing cycle in order to plan radiation for tumors. Anna Hilsmann
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