What if you found one who is not talented? Would you tell him, listen, this field is not for you? It depends on how you define talent. If they are just lazy and don't want to put the work in, then I may tell them. But if they just need more help to understand and learn things, I would help them. Very nice. So, it depends on how many chances they have to continue. But if you feel they should leave, you would tell them? Yes, because this is a very competitive field. At some point, I even thought I was too slow to compete with the industry and I slightly changed my path to be a bit away from industry. Let's fast forward to the day you retire. What would be something that you have done in your career that would satisfy you, and you say, “Oh, that was worth it.” What success do you wish for yourself? Something you can think back to on your day of retirement and think that was great. The best thing would be to receive the Turing Award. [laughs] I'm not sure if I can get there. But even if I can do work on impactful research and be helpful to the board, that would be something. If one day I am on the jury of the Turing Award, I will vote for you. [laughs] Thank you. Of all the skills that engineers and scientists have that are important to succeed, which one do you cherish the most? Which skill would you say, please come to me, stay with me, and never go away? I think being curious and trying new things out. Just being excited about one's research is the most important part. What drives you to work so hard in this field? If I look into the far future, then having very intelligent systems that would help people would still be a dream. But in the short term, achieving some minimal goals and impactful work would be nice. Do you have something you’d like to share with the community? Put more effort into academia. And try to push artificial intelligence and computer vision toward more impactful and interesting ideas rather than working just for profit. Xi Yin 27 DAILY ICCV Thursday Azade Farshad
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