So You Want to Be an Academic? A couple of years into your PhD, but wondering: "Am I doing this right?" Most of the advice is aimed at graduating students. But there's far less for junior folks who are still finding their academic path. My candid takes: anandbhattad.github.io/blogs/jr_gra...

Finally the dates for @cvprconference.bsky.social are public! cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/... And there's an additional week for supp videos 🥰

Awesome initiative!

Thankful my sabbatical lined up with NSERC Discovery renewal. First real pause since I became faculty to think about long-term research, health, and life.

AAAI AI reviews: there is a possibility for a debate between @sebastiendestercke.bsky.social and @mcognetta.bsky.social 😀 bsky.app/profile/mcog... bsky.app/profile/seba...

The program chair’s reaction to an email pleading to submit after the deadline.

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

Is basic image understanding solved in today’s SOTA VLMs? Not quite. We present VisualOverload, a VQA benchmark testing simple vision skills (like counting & OCR) in dense scenes. Even the best model (o3) only scores 19.8% on our hardest split.

Back to the math tutor grind 😅

We have a career portal at #ICCV2025! You can post job openings and also view postings if you are registered. iccv.thecvf.com/careers/

It’s Friday … but the grant proposal isn’t going to write itself.

💫 Inspire & connect the next generation of AI leaders! We're calling for proposals from ELLIS Sites to host ELLIS Summer/Winter Schools in 2026 + the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium (EDS) in 2027! 📆 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025. 🔗 Info & guidlines 👇

Conference program chairs taking away acceptance recommendations due to lack of space.

The September issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out: tinyurl.com/5x262zuz A call for motions for the TC meeting at #ICCV2025 is out. The deadline for submitting a motion to me is 10/8. The TC meeting is tentatively scheduled for 4:30pm on Wednesday, October 22nd. Mark your calendars!

Thank you for raising this and pushing back. If resources are becoming a limiting factor, we should start exploring alternative ways of accepting papers, such as acceptance without a presentation.

NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.

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#KostasThoughts: In academia, resilience gets you past the NOs. Strength keeps you from replying with that angry email 😡 Passed over again but not deterred.

Brought back some Japanese lab treats 😋

Generalist perception for the win

10-day Japan speed run done. Childhood dream from the 80s unlocked. Didn’t disappoint ❤️

Late-night snack. Japanese “fast food” 🍣😊

We’ve reached the final boss of our Japan trip 🤗

6:55am at Universal Studios Japan. Super Nintendo World is just a little popular 😅

This is one of the coolest ideas using EPIC-KITCHENS in a long while... We've all been waiting to be replaced by robots! At least this is now done in the generative space... Great work by Marion Lepert, Jiaying Fang and @leto--jean.bsky.social from Stanford IPRL.. congrats! arxiv.org/abs/2508.09976

Osaka by day ❤️

How!?!?!

New video! A quick dive into the recent Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) through the lens of algorithm synthesis. Check it out: youtu.be/RK7lysjz_G0

Return to Japan for ICCV… or dare I suggest CVPR? 🤭 @wjscheirer.bsky.social

Osaka by night 🔥🔥🔥

Game over? Not yet. Just arrived in Osaka!

This also happened without the other co-authors aware of it. By the time the co-authors saw it, there was a heated back and forth between author and reviewer 🤦 I thought this was obvious, but before submitting a rebuttal, make sure to consult all co-authors first!

Student told me a co-author took an offensive tone in a recent rebuttal. Just don’t! It may feel good, but you’ll likely kill the paper. Remember you are not just talking to this reviewer but also the others and the Area Chair. Fight with facts, not fury.

Foodie heaven in Japan. Hotpot birthday dinner! 🎉🍲

Hit a HUGE birthday milestone today! 🎉 Celebrated with a visit to the beautiful Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto. We hiked to the summit of Mount Inari and back in about 2 hours (4 km) 😮‍💨

Kyoto ❤️ Day 1: 30k+ steps later… 😅

Arrived in Kyoto, Mario’s hometown. Time to check this off and start exploring.

Arrived in Kyoto, Mario’s hometown. Time to check this off and start exploring.

Today’s office view 👀 #Tokyo #skytree

Bless Google Translate (and maps too)

Achievement unlocked 🎮

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Landing at Seoul Incheon Airport feels like time-travel … straight into the future. Next stop Tokyo 🇯🇵

Running experiments over the holidays 🤨

Sunday morning reading … flight delay edition 😬

En route to Tokyo, via Seoul. Flight via Seoul uncertain due to possible flight cancellation 😬