ICCV Daily 2019 - Wednesday

Eden Belouadah is a PhD student at the university of IMT Atlantique in France. She is doing her PhD at CEA-LIST in Paris. Ioannis Kanellos from IMT Atlantique is her thesis director and Adrian Popescu is her supervisor in CEA-LIST. You had a poster yesterday at ICCV. What is your work about? My PhD is about Incremental Learning where the system is supposed to learn data that occurs in stream. It means that we have a system that recognizes a set of classes, and it has to learn continuously more classes upon time in an efficient way. Memory of past is bounded or not available and computational resources are limited. The main challenge is that the system tends to forget the past classes while trying to learn the new ones. We call this phenomenon Catastrophic Forgetting and it's mainly due to the bounded memory of past data. Is this the field that you are working on in general? I worked on Computer Vision before, and it was about the fall detection of elderly people using Kinect sensor. After, I worked on optimization. This is my third domain. Incremental learning is what interested me in computer vision, but it was not my domain in the beginning. You are studying in France, but you are not originally from France. Where are you from? I am from Algeria. When did you move from Algeria to France? I moved in September 2017. Tell me something about Algeria that we don’t know. Well, Algerian people are really nice. The thing is that if you are a tourist there, they will welcome you. They will treat you like one of them. But you have never been a tourist in Algeria so how do you know? [laughs] Well, I know how we treat other people! 10 Women in C.Vision DA I L Y