If a paper clears the bar, give it a score ≥6. Here is how I think about ratings: - Should be oral? 8/9 - Should be spotlight? 7/8 - Clears the acceptance bar? 6/7 - Could be accepted after minor revs? 4/5 - Could be accepted after major revs? 3/4 - Fundamentally flawed 2/3

The August issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out: tinyurl.com/5chz2p4p Some highlights: The #WACV2025 Round 2 paper deadline is 9/9 The #3DV2025 paper deadline is 8/12 And don't forget to register for #ECCV2024!

🚀 Excited to share our latest research, "MaskInversion: Localized Embeddings via Optimization of Explainability Maps"! Discover how we enhance vision-language models like CLIP for precise image region representation without fine-tuning the underlying foundation model.

Announcing the ICLR 2025 Call for Papers! Abstract submission: 11:59pm, Sept 27 (AoE) Submission date: 11:59pm, Oct 1 (AoE) Reviews released: Nov 12 Author/Reviewer Discussion: Nov 12-26 Author Last Day to Reply: Nov 27 Final Decisions: Jan 22 2025 iclr.cc/Conferences/20…

📣 Google/ETH PhD position available The group of Prof Schindler at ETH offers a fully funded PhD position in collaboration with our team at Google on the topic of 3D computer vision and generative models. For more details (including how to apply): jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

Goodhart's law: > When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

✅ Nina Shvetsova and Anna Kukleva will discuss HowToCaption - a nice work that leverages recent advances in LLMs and generates high-quality video captions at scale without any human supervision. (with Hilde Kuehne) x.com/cvml_mpiinf/st…

🚀New Paper: "A Practitioner's Guide to Continual Multimodal Pretraining"! arxiv.org/abs/2408.14471 🌐Foundation models like CLIP need constant updates to stay relevant. How to do this in the real-world? Answer: Continual Pretraining!! We studied how to effectively do this.🧵👇

The complete GCPR-VMV program is now online and it is still not too late to join us! We have tutorials on Virtual Humans, Quantum-Enhanced Vision and 3D Shape Analysis, as well as four keynote talks, four PI-Talks and three research spotlights from junior researchers.

Begin reviewing the GenAI rising star material—it’s been tough to compile a shortlist with so many strong candidates! I feel so lucky to get a faculty position a few years ago😃😃. Tips: Enter the faculty market early if ready, before positions become saturated!