WiCV 2019: The Sixth Women In Computer Vision Workshop

Irene Amerini, Elena Balashova, Sayna Ebrahimi, Kathryn Leonard, Arsha Nagrani, Amaia Salvador; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2019, pp. 0-0

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 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 the academia and in the industry. WiCV is organized especially for this 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.