ECCV 2018 Daily - Thursday

Which goes with what you are doing? Exactly! That is? Now I am interested in motion analysis, especially in videos as well as learning and combinatorial optimization to get there. This morning, I told you that someone said to me : if you are not having a crisis during your Ph.D., it means that you are not doing it right. I know that you agree. Why is it so? There are many possible answers to that. During your Ph.D., you have many possible crises. After every few months of working on some specific task or topic, you feel pressure from the project you are working on from your collaborators, from your supervisors. Thomas Brox never specifically put me under pressure, but, for example, there was this Cluster of Excellence and the other people involved. You always feel there is a lot of pressure. At the same time, you never know if what you are doing will be enough. You never know. You always hope for it. You have some indication that it is going to be enough. You never actually know whether what you are doing is going to be sufficient for what you want to achieve. That is funny, it reminds me what Alyosha Efros told me this week: “ Failure is necessary! ” Sure! That’s the point. It’s also what I’m telling my Ph.D. students now. Actually, frustration is part of the game. If they get frustrated, it shouldn’t even be surprising. Expect to be frustrated, and get over it as soon as you can because it is in the natural process. You learn to be more tolerant. Are there more crises in learning or in teaching? Daily Thursday 13 Margret Keuper 11