As someone who has been doing machine vision related work for most of the last 15 years, it is exceedingly gratifying to see my field 'growing up' and achieving

As someone who has been doing machine vision related work for most of the last 15 years, it is exceedingly gratifying to see my field 'growing up' and achieving such success. 12 years ago I was working for a machine vision startup with a Prof. two post-docs, a sales guy, and me as the only paid employee. Now, I'm more likely to be working in a team of dozens, if not hundreds of machine vision researchers and developers. Quite a change.