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will be signed. Don’t worry about it!”
Va bene, va bene!
Exactly! [
both laugh
]
That was the challenging part. What
was the positive takeaway of
organizing this conference?
First of all, working with the
professional
conference organizer
went very smoothly. They were very,
very professional. Cristiana and the
entire organization were absolutely
outstanding. It is excellent.
All of them, Federica in particular.
You can see it in the way they
organize, the way the badges are
checked and printed, the way they
organize the lunches. It is very
smooth. The best thing with an
organization is when you don’t notice
it. This is exactly what happened. The
venue itself is fabulous! This is where
the film festival occurs. The room is
splendid. We have this audio/visual
link for the overflow room.
And the sea in front of us!
And the weather that we ordered!
[
both laugh
]
That is absolutely wonderful. In fact,
we are sitting outside in front of the
venue.
And very much enjoying a chat by the
sea. What advice do you have to any
young student attending their first
conference here at ICCV?
My main advice is don’t be
overwhelmed. It is very difficult to
come here. There are so many talks,
so many workshops. We have 44
workshops here. It is very easy to say,
“
Oh my God, I will never be able to
make an impact in this field
.” That is
not true. Make sure you choose a
topic. You understand it. You read
what has been. Make sure that you
can actually advance the state of the
art. Instead of being in the audience,
you are going to be presenting to the
audience on stage.
This is my advice. And know that you
are lucky to be in a field that has
exploded in the past five years. This is
a field that five years, seven years ago,
if you said I work in computer vision,
they would say, “
Oh, okay, nice
.” Now,
people say, “
Oh! You know what, now
there is a plethora of job offers
.”
People are looking for talent in this
area. There are so many opportunities
from self-driving cars to internet
processes. Everybody is consuming
images, but now the difference is,
instead of consuming pixels, we want
to get information out of the images.
This is what our field is doing, and I
think it’s going to continue having a
great influence in the world.
7
Friday
“
You are lucky to be in a
field that has exploded
in the past five years...
”
Gérard Medioni
“
The venue itself is
fabulous!
”