ECCV 2020 Daily - Tuesday

of our collaborators, and I can tell you that the sun never sets for the readers, which for VAMPIRE is a problem, of course! [ both laugh ] You are co-organizing ECCV online, as one of the General co-Chairs. Why are there so few medical imaging companies in computer vision conferences? I'm thinking about CVPR, ECCV, and ICCV. This is a very interesting question to which I don't have a definite answer. But this is a very interesting question I sometimes ask myself. My explanation is purely evolutionary. I'll tell you what I think is happening. If you look back to 25, 30 years ago, the first editionof these conferences, the relative frequency of medical papers was higher. I think it has been just an evolutionary phenomenon that people who are really interested in medical, formed their own parish, their own journals, their own community, like MICCAI. At the same time, in the last 15 years, we've seen this explosion of non-medical applications, some of which involved an enormous amount of money. Some of them are, for instance, security or cybersecurity. But think entertainment! I rememberwhen I was a junior postdoc, state-of-the-art research was building mosaics from videos. Think of what you can do now! Then, there was no high definition television. That is a huge application. And I remember seeing early versions of these papers, [ laughs ] tracking people in car parks, with no deep learning in view, but Kalman filters all over the place. In a few words, it's a kind of an organic process. 3 Emanuele Trucco 11 DAILY T u s d a y