Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 26 Women in Computer Vision Don't you feel that in your job, part of your effort is wasted because it does not get TO the real world? Or are you lucky enough that most of what you do becomes a real thing? Of course, there are often some works that never come into application, but they are still projects where we learn and where we get some gain out of it for other research projects that are then put into applications. Tell me the most fantastic thing that you have learned until now. One thing is never to give up and continue. This is the basic thing about research. You try different things and these days, it's harder than ten years ago, because everything is faster. I have so many students here that are disappointed because they have some ideas. And then two weeks later, it is published by someone else. The best advice that I can give them is don't take this as a sign to stop with that idea. It's exactly the other way around. I mean, if someone else had a similar idea, and if someone else was able to publish something, then it's obviously a good idea. So my advice would be to keep on because even if someone else had a similar idea and publish something about that, it doesn't mean that you have to stop there. It means that this is a path to go on. This is maybe the biggest advice that I give all the students, because when they start, they think they have to create the big new thing. It's very difficult to create the one thing no one else thought about these days. We have competitors like Meta, Google, and so on. As a smaller research institution, we cannot compete with them. Was there a moment that you said, I feel like stopping, but I know that I have to go on? Yeah, sure. I think that many, especially women, have like this feeling: oh, I'm not good enough and everyone else is better than me. And they are all doing like the big whole thing. And I am working on this little small problem here and I don't have any success. I think that many people have that. And I also had that and also still have. But I know that this is something where you can talk to yourself in a much nicer way. To us, you are good enough and you're even much better than that. We strongly support you as very,
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