Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it. @opencv.bsky.social @philnelson.bsky.social

This has been one of the most exciting and demanding projects I’ve worked on. Over the past 6 months, we teamed up with OpenCV, the BOP benchmark, and the CIRP Lab @uhmanoa.bsky.social to run a global challenge on 6DoF pose estimation for complex industrial parts. 🧵

Want to know if humanoid robots have finally become practical? See if more of them roll smoothly on wheels instead of stumbling around on legs. Until then, they’re stuck in demo mode - not deployment and scaling mode.

Gotta admit – I enjoy deleting code way more than writing it.

CV/ML paper naming strategies: - Answering yes to an obvious question? → “Do You Need X for Y?” - New one-shot model? → “X Anything” - Overhyping something trivial? → “All You Need Is X”

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Submissions are open, We're waiting for you. A few important updates regarding the Bin Picking Challenge: opencv.org/blog/importa...

🚀 Internship Opportunity! 🚀 Our small research team is looking for two talented interns to join us! If you're passionate about cutting-edge research at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, this is your chance to contribute to an exciting, high-impact project.

Prediction: There’ll be more people calling themselves software developers in 2–3 years than there are now.

I made a bet with a friend on 1 Nvidia stock that in 5 years, I’ll be able to buy a robot that can cook pasta in my kitchen, straight from raw ingredients, with no special setup. Just in case, I’ve already bought the stock😆. What are my chances?

The Bin Picking Challenge is live! Detect the 6DoF poses of 10 challenging parts and compete for $60K in prizes. Some of them are quite challenging to detect accurately. The video shows a few of the parts in rotation - are you up for the challenge?

The Bin Picking Challenge is now open!

I see people debating the Humanity’s Last Exam dataset. I actually contributed a problem to it. For the past 2 years, I’ve used a much simpler version of that problem to evaluate new LLMs—and they’ve all failed miserably. I can’t speak for other problems, but once an LLM solves mine, I’m retiring 🫡

Big news for computer vision enthusiasts! Intrinsic.ai is sponsoring the Bin-Picking Challenge for Perception, with $60,000 in prizes and a chance to present your work at the CVPR Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation Workshop! 🧵 1/5

1/ Excited to share that our latest work from Intrinsic will be presented as a paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024! 🎉 We’ve developed a plenoptic 3D vision system that addresses a key challenge in industrial robotics: providing robots reliable 3D input data. 🧵⬇️

My feelings about humanoid hype

This. Also, I’ll be talking a lot more about 6DoF pose in this account in the coming weeks

1/ A small glimpse into our work at Intrinsic. Building reliable robotics & perception systems is really hard. AI solutions still struggle with hallucinations & occasional failures, which is a major reason why AI isn’t yet widely used in many industries. But that’s changing.

You can remove the Discover tab (recommendations) and keep just the Following tab in Bluesky's settings. It’s a simple way to avoid falling down the rabbit hole of emotion-triggering, algorithmic posts. Love this feature!

It was taking me forever to find relevant people to follow on twitter. These bluesky starter packs are goated

Starting out the bluesky journey looking for a strong PhD student in 3D Vision! If you are interested in 3D Vision - specially in using light & camera motion for reconstruction - MVS, SFM, SLAM with Photometric Stereo, and its application in robotics and medical imaging please reach out to me!

3D transforms (like mapping one camera’s view to another) can be tricky, even for seasoned pros. I’m diving into the math and intuition behind them for my next blog post. What aspects of 3D transforms have confused you the most? Let me know—I might cover them!

Bluesky’s audience is actually impressing me so far—bonus points for the lack of pornbots! Guess I’ll be juggling posts on both Twitter and Bluesky now.

Ok, let’s give this app a chance!