WiCV 2019: The Sixth Women In Computer Vision Workshop
This addresses the low representation of women in computer vision by organizing a workshop to foster visibility, collaboration, and mentorship, but it is incremental as it builds on previous years' efforts.
The paper reports on the WiCV 2019 workshop, which aimed to increase the visibility and inclusion of women researchers in computer vision, highlighting trends and statistics on presenters, attendees, and sponsorship.
In this paper we present the Women in Computer Vision Workshop - WiCV 2019, organized in conjunction with CVPR 2019. This event is meant for increasing the visibility and inclusion of women researchers in the computer vision field. Computer vision and machine learning have made incredible progress over the past years, but the number of female researchers is still low both in academia and in industry. WiCV is organized especially for the following reason: to raise visibility of female researchers, to increase collaborations between them, and to provide mentorship to female junior researchers in the field. In this paper, we present a report of trends over the past years, along with a summary of statistics regarding presenters, attendees, and sponsorship for the current workshop.