ECCV 2020 Daily - Monday

working with nevi and melanomas, so focused on skin spots. My very first work was on how to recognize if the spot was a melanoma or a benign skin lesion. Then I moved to recognize X-ray images, how to collect them, how to organize them, how to retrieve them. It was difficult because you don't have a lot of labeled data for these kinds of images. This is why I started to think about transfer learning, and this is where everything started. Did you move out of the medical field for any particular reason? Somehow it just happened. I published something at ICPR this year about medical images. I'm still working in that area, although in a marginal way. It just happened because the amount of data on object categories at the time when I started my PhD was much more available compared to data for medical images. I had the occasion to start from there. Now, from time to time, I go back to medical images. Are you afraid of blood? No, I am not afraid of blood. At the very beginning, I was studying medical physics, so I was supposed to be working in a hospital, but that was not my direction. When I did my internship in the hospital, I understood that was not my “thing”. I wanted to research in a different kind of environment, and so, that's what moved me away from that direction. Why Turin? I really like Turin, both as a city, in terms of way of living, and the university. It's a big polytechnic university with a lot of young people, extremely motivated in working in research. I find it is a perfect place to work. I enjoy it a lot because the students are really positive. They are proactive, and so I like both the teaching part and the research part with them. It’s a very good place. It's quite boring with respect to Rome, of course. Well, somehow it might be a bit more regular, more organized. Maybe you can think it is more boring, but it's not true in the end. A bit less chaotic. Yes, but that's a positive aspect from my perspective. The fact that I can go to work just by having a short walk, that's perfect. In Roma, I could never ever expect to do something like this. 3 Tatiana Tommasi 17 DAILY M o n d a y