My first update this year 🎍 I was appointed to serve as Technical Chair for CVPR 2028 (@cvprconference.bsky.social ) We are also looking for an technical assistant! Check the last PAMI TC newsletter from @wjscheirer.bsky.social if you're interested

Bored in the winter holidays? 🤖☃️ Make an artwork to submit to @cvprconference.bsky.social art gallery 😁 Open call for art made with/about computer vision until 8th March Details: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/... #creativeAI #AIart #CVPR2026

Happy Holidays!

3rd Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) workshop will be held as a full day workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026 egovis.github.io/cvpr26/ CFP and challenge deadlines after the NY Great lineup of 7 keynote speakers... See you in Denver!

In today’s deep learning world, what do you believe won’t stand the test of time?

The second edition of our “Geometry-Free Novel View Synthesis and Controllable Video Models” workshop is happening at #CVPR2026! We’re assembling an EXCITING speaker lineup featuring leading voices in the field. Stay tuned for more details.

Classic (with audio)

The future of peer review? When an LLM-written paper is reviewed by an LLM.

This generation of researchers will never understand this.

Telling your students about research before the ImageNet moment

#KostasThoughts Something I tell my students: Don’t make my mistakes. Learn from mine. You’ll make your own anyway 🤓

My European Sabbatical trailer (turn on audio) Munich, Germany (January 11 - March 31st) Zurich, Switzerland (Spring - Summer)

That’s a wrap on my Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) stay 😢 Met so many incredible faculty and students buzzing with ideas 💪 HUGE thank you to Katerina Fragkiadaki for hosting me and her awesome lab ❤️ Next stop, winter and spring in Europe. Stay tuned.

Imagine how different the world would be 🤔

Due to the minor delay in releasing the review assignments, we are extending the #CVPR2026 review deadline for reviewers. Please see OpenReview for the updated timelines.

Kicking off our #ECCV2026 social media coverage is the Call for Tutorials! Link: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...

Preprint now on ArXiv 📢 The N-Body Problem: Parallel Execution from Single-Person Egocentric Video Input: Single-person egocentric video 👤 Out: imagine how these tasks can be performed faster by N > 1 people, correctly e.g. N=2 👥 📎 arxiv.org/abs/2512.11393 👀 zhifanzhu.github.io/ego-nbody/ 1/4

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A prof’s email is NOT an application portal. Do your due diligence BEFORE making first (and second) contact.

IJCAI 2026 will charge $100 USD per submission. Funds will be used to compensate reviewers. 2026.ijcai.org/ijcai-ecai-2...

Our #CVPR2026 Program Chairs have just pushed out a follow-up email with clarifications. Check your email (and spam folder).

🚨 Message from our #CVPR2026 Program Chairs

#KostasKeynoteLessons: Curious about the "Keynote magic" behind my slides? I’m releasing the full Keynote source file for my recent Gaussian Splatting lecture, all 10 GIGAbytes of it! Grab the files in the thread and feel free to remix. Files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

PSA: Stop writing ‘see supplemental.’ Supplemental is an adjective, not a noun.

Afternoon e-reading

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Late to the game, Nano Banana 🍌 is impressive 🤩

Sometimes you reread a paper several times and finally conclude: the problem isn’t me … it’s you! 🤷

Repeat after me: This is NOT a paper contribution, it’s an expected component!

Most conference rebuttals

Morning e-reading

#KostasThoughts: One idea per slide. Slides cost nothing. Pacing is everything, not the slide total.

We’re excited to recognize and thank our amazing #3DV2026 sponsors! Your support makes research, collaboration, and innovation possible. 💡✨ Want to join this group of partners? Learn how you can support 3DV here: 3dvconf.github.io/2026/partner...

Year end review: 2025 was dominated by LLM research!

Giving a talk or lecture? Step away from the podium. Instant engagement upgrade.

Lifestyle changes come with both a payoff and a payout 💪

Lots of interest for @sakanaai.bsky.social 's Continuous Thought Maxhines.

Time for another AI art open call with @cvprconference.bsky.social 🤖🎉 Submit your artwork with/about computer vision for #CVPR2026 in Denver until 8th March Don't have a suitable work? You have months to make one 😃 Details: cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/... #creativeAI #AIart

#CVPR2026 registration is now live!

Latest details about the OpenReview leak by #ICLR2026 blog.iclr.cc/2025/12/03/i...

Neurips submission growth

A few photos from the @ellis.eu UnConference 2025 opening remarks by @vincefort.bsky.social and Søren Hauberg

29k participants at Neurips 2025

The state of AI in 2025: this is one of many parallel sessions (Tutorial on autoregressive models beyond LLMs) and not a conference plenary talk. #neurips2025

Call me Kosta

Snapshot of the state of conference reviewing

My new lab friend, Ori the G1 🤖 @unitreerobotics.bsky.social

Pittsburgh sightseeing 📸