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Vicky, how is it working with Vittorio
and Cordelia?
They are both extremely admirable
people. More importantly, they are
even more admirable as researchers,
as you already know. Vitto is an
extremely charismatic person that is
fun and inspiring. He has a passion for
everything. When he is excited, he has
this ability, this charisma, to actually
transmit his excitement to everybody
else. That is excellent for young, junior
researchers like myself who are
struggling, struggling, and struggling
when nothing works, you have little
strength to cheer yourself up. This
helps a lot and makes the miserable
days, weeks, or months when nothing
works much happier. At least you have
a perspective. You have a positive
attitude. Cordelia, on the other hand,
is excellent in understanding, in
visualizing, in thinking through things,
which is an amazing ability that I
would love to inherit at some point.
When you tell her something simple,
she can actually take it to the next
level. She can transform it into a
completely different problem that,
according to her, is going to be close
to what you said in the beginning, but
it’s not even the same thing
sometimes. [laughs] It’s going to be so
far away in a sense that you would not
have been able to predict it.
What would you like to inherit from
Vittorio then?
Obviously, his passion and his
intelligence. It’s an excellent
combination. Vitto’s mind works faster
than hundreds of people.
Do you really feel like you don’t have
the same passion as Vitto? I saw you
at your poster today. You seem very
passionate about your work. Am I
wrong?
I am passionate about my work, but I
guess every PhD student is.
Well, you’re not a PhD student
anymore! [both laugh]
Nice trap!
Can you tell us about the poster that
you presented today?
It is an action-tubelet detector for
spatio-temporal action localization. In
this work, we deal with the spatio-
temporal action localization problem.
That is exactly what its name suggests.
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Friday
Vicky Kalogeiton
Women in Computer Vision
Vicky Kalogeiton recently
completed her PhD under the
supervision of Cordelia Schmid
and at the
University of Edinburgh and
INRIA.