ECCV 2020 Daily - Wednesday

2 Guest 1 environment. I do not want to complain because the bigger picture is that people want faculty from our field and that is a good problem to have, but we also need faculty to train the next generation. When we interviewed Yann LeCun, he very strongly defended the model of double affiliation: it is a model that Facebook defends very strongly. What do you think about this? Overall, it is a positive thing. It attests to the huge impact that computer vision and machine learning are having in the world. However, I think it needs to evolve so that academia can continue to function in a fair and reasonable way. I am not saying I have the answer, but traditional sources of basic research funding are not as readily available as when I was in grad school. It is certainly tempting to tap into the big tech companies for significant research funding, but it is a prospect that presents a level of temptation that is unprecedented in our field. I suspect that other areas, for example, pharmaceutical research within academia, probablywent throughacycle of this. I am sure within semiconductors similar things happened. It is happening in our field now, but it is a wave and it will pass. I really think it is a positive thing that these big tech companies are helping academic research, but it is also a delicate balance. It creates a lot of quiet frustration among faculty who happen not to be in that specific area, but who are carrying a disproportionate amount of service workload at their university. Ourmagazine is verymuch about people as well as science. Zekun and Menglin gave me very positive feedback about what it is like to work with you. Now, I would love to hear from you, what is it like to work with them? Theyarebrilliantandcreativeandfearless. They are not afraid to thoroughly ignore my suggestions! They are very polite and nod along in agreement and hear lots of things I suggest, but they are not afraid to try something completely different, and they know I will not get mad. There is an enormous amount of pressure to publish for modern grad students and I worry that my students will become depressed or lose confidence. On a weekly basis, so many papers come out on arXiv, but if their work gets scooped, my students support each other to get back on their feet. I think that is probably DAILY W e d n e s d a y