This is not normal 🙄

Good morning #Toronto! Missed you ❤️

Summer reading has arrived 😎

Introducing my new #DeepLearning course page 🤗 The page is now live and evolving over the coming weeks. Check it out: csprofkgd.github.io/deep-learnin... Feedback is welcome!

Next stop: home for the week ❤️ Then back to Zurich to wrap up the final stretch of my sabbatical.

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#KostasThoughts: The #computervision community is behind on review transparency. Reviews and meta-reviews should be made public for accepted papers and, if authors opt in, for rejected papers as well. Transparency can be a powerful mechanism for improving review and meta-review quality. 1/2

Appears #ICCV2029 Dubai is now off the schedule 🤔

#ICCV2031 Lisbon 🇵🇹 Source: www.thecvf.com?page_id=100

The face of academic research in 2026: always GPU-constrained, and now token-constrained too. 🤦

Guess the location 🤔

#ECCV2026 decisions have been released! The final reviews and meta-reviews are not yet available on OpenReview; they will be released in the coming days.

#ECCV2026 decision notifications will be sent via email by June 17th anywhere on Earth.

Today was my last day at the Samsung AI Centre Toronto. It’s been an AWESOME 8-year run. I’ve learned a tremendous amount, worked with incredible people, and built lasting friendships along the way. 1/2

Inspired by @jbhuang0604.bsky.social's Awesome-Tips webpage and his encouragement, I put together a webpage collecting #KostasThoughts posts from over the years. Hope you find them useful! #KostasThoughts: csprofkgd.github.io/kostas-thoug...

Last few days to submit your artwork to @eccv.bsky.social 👀 Submissions deadline 14th June: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/... With Ioannis Siglidis #ECCV2026 📷 from #ECCV2018 gallery @annaridler.bsky.social @philippschmitt.bsky.social Masaru Mizuochi #creativeAI #AIart

First full draft of my 🆕 lecture on (vanilla) policy gradients done 😅 TODO: Variance reduction methods (temporal structure and baselines).

The videos from the “Frontiers of Embodied AI” meetup at ETHZ from a few weeks back are now available. Speakers: Jitendra Malik, Vladlen Koltun, Yann LeCun, and Shuran Song Hosted by Marc Pollefeys YouTube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

When co-authors independently write different parts of a paper 😬

#KostasThoughts My lecture motto: Your eyeballs are mine. One idea at a time. The focus of the slide should always match the focus of the speech.

#KostasThoughts: Someone recently asked me about automating slide creation. For me, creating slides is part of the learning process. Breaking a topic into its building blocks and putting it back together helps me understand it. 1/3

Back to the lecture prep grind. VERY early version of my lecture on Policy Gradients. With #computervision and #robotics research appearing to converge, at least based on #CVPR2026 and my European tour conversations, it feels like good timing 😉

ACTUALLY, that very same asteroid was already discovered 1990 by the hobby astronomer, Jürgen S.

#KostasThoughts: Endless reading of papers can be a form of procrastination. It feels productive, but often it’s just a way to avoid doing the work.

#KostasThoughts: I’ve been thinking about the criteria for award-winning papers 🏆 They should embody what our community values most: originality, potential impact, and reproducibility. Yet (full) reproducibility is often missing, even among award-winning papers. 1/3

My #ECCV2026 Area Chair batch papers are now finalized 😅

#KostasThoughts: If a paper promises code/weights in the review submission, then it must be made available by the time of the conference; otherwise, conference should desk reject the paper.

A huge thank you to the entire Organizing Committee for their hard work in making this conference a success. A special thank you to the Program Chairs for their tireless efforts in delivering an outstanding program. Your work is deeply appreciated! @cvprconference.bsky.social

It has been a blast sharing the excitement, science, art, and community of CVPR with all of you. The Publicity Chairs are officially signing off. Seattle, you’re up next! 🌲 See you at #CVPR2027! 👋

New book purchase: Part of Project 50 is improving my daily habits.

Stats from the #CVPR2026 opening.

The PAMI TC awards are here #CVPR2026. Congratulations to all the winners for your contribution to the research community 🏆

Honorable Mentions👏

Announcing the official #CVPR2026 Best Paper Award Winner! 🏆 Congratulations to the authors for their landmark contributions to the field!👏👏

The most happening airport gate in the world 🍻 Vienna 🇦🇹

Living like Austrians with my AMAZING local tour guide @chriswolfvision.bsky.social 💪

A mathematics consortium has published a list of actions to address the use of AI in their field. It may be a good idea for @cvprconference.bsky.social @neuripsconf.bsky.social @iclr-conf.bsky.social and other ML, CV, NLP groups to work on a similar, cohesive proposal for our extended community.

Happening tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Come early, we anticipate a packed room throughout the morning!

Meet the CVPR 2026 Social Media Team: @csprofkgd.bsky.social, @antoninofurnari.bsky.social, @deblinaml.bsky.social, and @yaelvinker.bsky.social. We're excited to share news, updates, and announcements with you throughout #CVPR2026.

⏱️ 6 days left to apply to the ELLIS Summer School on Autonomous Driving 🚗 Let's meet our speakers! Today we introduce @maxigl.bsky.social (Staff Research Scientist at Nvidia) 📝 Application deadline: June 8, 2026 pages.cvc.uab.es/ssadriving/

ICRA panel on the impact of AI and the paper avalanche on robotics conferences and journals. The same problems arrise in ML and in CV of course.

Just in case you were wondering about #ECCV2026 area chair decision making. (Same goes for CVPR and ICCV.)

Attending #CVPR2026, Denver? We have a stellar speaker lineup for “GeoFreeNVS: Geometry-Free Novel View Synthesis and Controllable Video Models.” Come early. We anticipate seats will fill up FAST! Room: 607 Date: June 4 2026, 8 AM - 12:30 PM geofreenvs.github.io

That one paper with multiple rejections that you should just orphan on arXiv 😬

Just in case you were wondering about #ECCV2026 area chair decision making. (Same goes for CVPR and ICCV.)

Finished drafting all my #ECCV2026 meta-reviews 😅 Have back-to-back 6am triplet meetings on Wednesday and Thursday to finalize recommendations.

Mission accomplished: #ICRA2026 photo op 👍

The Nobel prize in trolling goes to .... somebody who showed a picture of real Monet, pretended it is AI generated (and prompted to imitate Claude Monet), and asked people how they knew it is inferior. People gave detailed descriptions of how its style is wrong and bad. Priceless.