EuroHPC wrote a piece about our love of GPUs 😊 A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...

Track-On2: Enhancing Online Point Tracking with Memory By Görkay Aydemir, Weidi Xie, @fguney.bsky.social TLDR: explicit memory for point tracking, holds decoder features, similar to what MUSt3R does for reconstruction. arxiv.org/abs/2509.19115

Our Autonomous Systems workshop series is back for its 3rd edition at CVPR 2025! Remember the queue in Seattle? Please mark the workshop in your CVPR registration so we have enough space this year! opendrivelab.com/cvpr2025/wor...

Our Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision goes to @cvprconference.bsky.social this year! We have a super line-up of speakers and a call for papers. This is a chance for your paper to shine at #CVPR2025 ⏲️ Submission deadline: 14 March 💻 Page: uncertainty-cv.github.io/2025/

similarly, if you were teaching deep stereo, how would you structure it, which methods/paradigms should not be skipped?

if one is teaching correspondence estimation, which methods proposed in the last years* should not be skipped? *my dfn. of last years is since the DL revolution.

feel free to nominate yourself or anyone else at KUIS AI talks: forms.gle/nbqhKsWbC9Swoqzi8

agreed. one of the messages from his talk is studying statistics, computer science, and economics together. I find his perspective on AI very realistic. also, how he changed the direction of discussion on bias during the panel in the end, should be studied in textbooks.

in a privileged setting, RL with self-play seems to be the answer to planning for driving. impressive to see complex behavior learning without supervision and zero-shot generalization across benchmarks by GigaFlow. the next question is what about with perception, is it just a matter of computation?

“..unsere heimat wieder gross” I wish my German was not enough to understand this, what the hell is happening to Germany 🥹🥹

since Görkay came up with Track-On, we've been waiting for this day: Track with me, if it's just for the frame, maybe tomorrow, the occlusion will take you away! 🎵🎸😶‍🌫️ Happy to introduce our #ICLR2025 paper "Track-On: Transformer-based Online Point Tracking with Memory": kuis-ai.github.io/track_on/

open-source, open-weight, I'll take whichever because, unlike the ones who share nothing, a few at least make an effort and change the game for everyone. I expect the effect of open stuff like Cosmos to be huge on physical AI. we are already trying it. also downloaded the DeepSeek, we shall see 🤞

I recently started taking walks, you know, for health reasons. but somehow all these walks are directed towards a cafe where I can have a cake as a reward for my walk 😅

I want to work closely with the Turkish industry, I think we can help each other. they just seem to miss the point like they see us as charity*. funny I feel the same about them after our international collaborations. *or they see me as "just a girl standing in front of them, asking for money" 😂

I haven't made the full switch from X to bsky yet because of the Turkish community that is still active there but so many random accounts are rt'ing/following in the last few hours that it might be the time. I think Elon Musk is trying to create artificial traffic with bots. it's pathetic really.

AZ praised our work that I presented at VGG. I don’t know why I’m still such a fan girl, I’m certainly not proud, but it made me very happy 🥹 glad he is not on social media, pls don’t tell him 🤫😅

#ICLR decisions are out! we have a paper 🥳 I’m not even gonna try to play it cool 😅 our first ICLR paper, super happy for my student Görkay, and we are extremely lucky to work with Weidi on this project. stay tuned for a very simple online point tracking method with amazing results 🤩

you mean like AGI is bad 🤔 today at Pera.

I love that something as valuable as NeuroNCAP is open-source, so I'll advertise it: github.com/atonderski/n... a NeRF-based simulator trained on NuScenes to render new, unseen scenarios to stress-test e2e planners (UniAD and VAD) closed-loop in safety-critical scenarios.

Excited to share that today our paper recommender platform www.scholar-inbox.com has reached 20k users! We hope to reach 100k by the end of the year.. Lots of new features are being worked on currently and rolled out soon.

this is a very positive, nice way of thinking about progress but today I read a survey about 2024 papers I’ve been meaning to read 🥹 things are crazy fast right now, I have a hard time catching up with the existing work, let alone contribute my unique perspective 🥲

for a while, I was very scared that I’d become irrelevant because I chose to live in Turkey. with all the recent progress on the topics that I’d like to work on, I realize that I’d be irrelevant anywhere. well, that’s a relief :/

"Academia is the fifth circle of hell. It goes babies, musicals, magic, kale, academia." —Paul (Harrison Ford) on Shrinking. funnily enough, I like all these things on the list including kale (you just need to cook it right).

reading a book claiming that social media is no good unless it’s for common good. so sharing this, is it for common good? 🤔 also definitely no no for teenagers until high school at least, apparently it fries their brain like what Mars does to human body (example from the prologue of the same book).

in our group mtg today, someone said that they might be having a burnout. I asked other group members how they handle burnout, one of them said: “I just burn 🔥” 🥹😂

Efe, one of our interns last summer, implemented the ROACH expert on NAVSIM and apparently shared the code: github.com/efemantarci/... there is no documentation but it should be fairly easy to use in case you need an RL expert reaching the performance of TransFuser on NAVSIM.

will give a talk at VGG next week, very excited!! no matter how many talks you give, nothing like one’s homebase (well, one of homebases 😊)

another day, another code release! Nazir and Youssef did great work with likelihood ratio formulation for OoD segmentation. if you want to utilize DiNOv2 for OoD to achieve SoTA results with a pixel-level method, check it out! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06424 code: github.com/NazirNayal8/...

code release for our ECCV paper CarFormer: github.com/Shamdan17/Ca... Shadi is an amazing coder, so this is a great starting point for privileged agents on CARLA. three versions to play with: 1. BEV quantized with a VQ-VAE 2. Attributes (PlanT) 3. BEV => slots (CarFormer)

two great workshops are coming your way this #CVPR: - Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision - Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems on the Horizon kudos to collaborators and organizers 🎉

I feel seen 👀

do you also think that it’d be incredibly freeing to not care about awards and titles and just focus on good work? I sometimes dream of being much older, free of such worries and just do what I like, but in reality, the pressure to chase them -internal or external- increases with age so far.

Sadra has been awarded KU Presidential Fellowship 🥳 it's a prestigious fellowship awarded to "students who have consistently demonstrated exceptional achievements during their time at Koç University".

Hinton is talking about how they came up with the idea of “hidden neurons” 🤯, probabilistic neurons (sigmoid?), and stacking multiple layers 🤯 he really believes brain uses sleep to do unlearning. www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...

Nobel Prize Lecture of Daron Acemoğlu: www.youtube.com/live/YcuxbYU... growing up in TR in the 80s, he started thinking about political economy early on 🥲 loved the lecture, love his work focusing on inequality. he also talks about the potential effect of AI on inequality as a disruptive technology.

Mısra will present Odd-One-Out next week at #ACCV2024, check out her talk in Oral Session 5 on day 3 (December 12 at 9:00). kuis-ai.github.io/O1O/ unfortunately, I won't be there -teaching is falling apart due to too much traveling-, but I'm looking forward to visiting Vietnam in the future 🙂

recent code releases from our group: Sadra shared the code for our BMVC paper, StereoGS: github.com/sadrasafa/St... Merve shared the code for robust BEV with DINOv2: github.com/mrabiabrn/ro... more on the way!

if you’re interested in working with us, please apply! we will start evaluating applications for Spring semester soon. gsse.ku.edu.tr/en/applicati...

I could easily spend an afternoon looking at the results of this paper: motionmodes.github.io or this paper: rollingdepth.github.io or this paper: romosfm.github.io vision is cool 😎

anyone considering an academic position in TR? we have open positions at KU: cs.ku.edu.tr/open-positio... send me a DM for details.

I love talking to people about research. recently, I visited the University of Edinburgh and it was such a pleasure to talk to Oisin, Laura, Hakan, postdocs and the students there 😊 today, we hosted Federico Tombari at KUIS AI talks, very impressive speaker, amazing forward looking ideas, loved it!

vow Sadra won the best poster award at #BMVC 🥳 I should have paid for the gala dinner this time 😂

the funniest thing on the internet today.

had a moment with the shop assistant at lush. me pointing to a product, they: are you sure that’s what your hair needs? me: no? they: you need this [a completely different product] but remember you cannot leave it on longer than 3 min, otherwise your hair WILL TURN PURPLE. me: now I have to try it.

in a country where it rains and snows all the time, there was an hour of sunshine today during our visit to #GlasgowNecropolis. one hour Scotland, I needed one hour of your default gloomy weather with rain and darkness. result: cheery photos in a gothic cemetery 🙄

today, someone asked why we work on improving depth from 3DGS. an undergrad from IIT who is visiting our poster at the same time explained it better than us by giving some examples from manufacturing and robotics. I offered him a position on the fly 😄

I’ve completely chosen the wrong major. I should have been the Guardian correspondent who had to visit Finnish Lapland to interview reindeer herders. jokes aside, it’s very sad what’s happening to forests there: open.spotify.com/episode/462h...

you’ll be surprised to hear it from me but I think social media is overrated. at least, for me, it’s more for myself than the followers. I like tweeting and I had a good number of followers on X but it’s actually liberating to have a fresh start here with much fewer followers.

Sadra and I will be in Glasgow for the next few days, presenting our work with Matteo and Fabio at #BMVC tomorrow. I will be visiting some friends in Edinburgh afterwards and give a talk on Friday, looking forward to it all! last time I visited Scotland was in August, I cannot imagine late Nov 😅