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Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Vision
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Chris Li, works in machine learning on resource-constrained systems computervision?Isthefieldinhighdemand?
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I'm surprised that you see a lack of opportunities, because in my experience as a
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etc. In addition, there are opportunities at the dierent "layers" of computer vision,
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whether it is algorithm development and optimization, or mobile applications
development using existing computer vision libraries such as FastCV, OpenCV,
OpenGL, etc. So depending on the company and type of position, you really don't QuestionStats
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between computer vision, machine learning, robotics, optimization, and other elds.
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To me, this illustrates the importance of having a grounding in the fundamental
mathematics (linear algebra, algorithms, probability, etc) that ties these elds
together.

Within industry, you need to complement your educational background with other
qualities to solve problems. While one can envision (hehe) many practical
applications of computer vision, the reality is that we are limited by the silicon of
today. Something from a conference paper that works well in a Matlab simulation
may not necessarily work well on a mobile device; one needs to always consider the
use case of the computer vision algorithm.

In particular, in our group at Qualcomm, having good software development skills

goes a long way. And because we are regularly interacting with customers and
teammates from marketing and business development, being able to communicate
why the computer vision algorithms that we work on are useful (and therefore can
generate a prot) is also an important skill to have.
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Randy Crawford, Processing pretty pictures for almost a decade.

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I think the answer depends on a couple of things: 1) PhD or not, and 2) military or not.

Taking #2 rst, I think there's a lot of work in military/security surveillance using

vision. It's a rapidly growing domain and is likely to survive the impending defense
cuts since it's a game-changing technology and generally not expensive. Presently it
has signicant limits (usually you can't identify the 'target'; they're too far away,
hooded, or it's night), but especially if the government and police separtments get
their way, it'll become their primary means of monitoring all us suspects.

As to #1, I think there's a denite advantage to a PhD in this eld, especially if you're
targeting a research lab or large corporate employer. I too have seen few vison jobs
that encourage non-PhDs to apply. That's partly because much of the eld is still
immature and you often have to customize a solution to make it work. The exception
may be machine vision (like industrial part inspection in manufacturing) which is
generally more straightforward than surveillance and benets from the availability of
more mature software solutions that should require less customization before it's
useful. Also I've noticed that smaller rms seem to be more receptive toward a lack of
a PhD. Probably that's because they need people with a broader set of skills willing to
work on more than just vision tasks.

I've also seen demand for vision skills cropping up in other arenas that aren't strictly
vision problems, like video analysis, 3D scene reconstruction and modeling, 3D
printer development (geometry and modeling), virtual reality, optical character
recognition, satellite map imagery analysis, 3D haptics (e.g. Kinect), medical image
analysis (my area), and control of autonomous craft (cars, copters, planes, mobile
robots).

Computer vision skills are certainly relevant to many potential careers. If you add a
bit of coursework in machine learning / pattern recognition and maybe graphics, AI
planning, sensor fusion, or kalman lters, and you have a really rich set of deeply
relevant skills that few computer scientists can oer. Will there be jobs? Who can say
for any skill area other than typical mundane stu like building web sites or database-
driven GUIs?
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Nikki Bray, works at Amazon.com

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Im a recruiter at Zillow in Seattle, and we are denitely hiring computer vision

engineers! The team is led by a director of development named Qi Shan, and he has a
top-notch team. Were hiring for 3D, deep learning, graphics, and computational
photography. Ive found that there are quite a few opportunities out there in general.
If youre interested in learning more, please message me.
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Robin Groenevelt
WrittenMay18,2015

Computer vision is a specialized eld which means that in every country you'll nd a
couple of opportunities but not that many.
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and arrive at the right time at the right (startup) company. I work in the French
equivalent of Silicon Valley (Sophia Antipolis) and there are a couple of tens of
computer vision experts here in the region. Around 50 of so work at research
institutes (INRIA in particular) and around 10-15 work at one of the 4 startups in this
areas. The people working at the startups usually come into the company because of
their work as a PhD or as the person launching the startup. Research labs often don't
pay well and getting into startups requires you to show up at the right place at the
right time often with the right skills.

It's also continuously evolving which complicated matters a bit. Many companies are
looking into deep learning (CNN) nowadays which means that older experienced
people may not have these skills but fresh PhD students do.

I'd say your biggest chance is sticking to big cities. This means you'll have more
choice and more certain to nd something. Or be open to relocating once in a while
and have the world as your playground:)

It's a amazing eld to work in and fun so you need to pull things into your favor (i.e.,
start at a good place, big city, work on network).

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Jol Schaerer, worked at Image Processing

WrittenAug1,2013

I think two factors come into play:

1. Computer vision is a fun activity, and that attracts many people. So there is
not shortage of new people arriving into the eld, for a relatively limited
oer.

2. Computer vision tries to solve problems once and for all. Once software is
written to solve a particular problem, it can be used an unlimited number of
times with no particular additional eort. I feel the eld has advanced a lot in
the past few years, and that means many obvious applications of computer
vision can practically be considered as "solved". Nowadays, you can nd
open source software to solve stu that would have been considered cutting-
edge research only a few years ago.

That said, a lot of niches still oer good opportunities in computer vision. I work on
medical image processing which has provided me with great opportunities for several
years now.

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