Walter Scheirer
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Prof. @NotreDame . IEEE @ComputerSociety PAMI TC Chair. Computer Vision Foundation CTO. Artificial Intelligence + Digital Humanities + History of Technology.
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Release is December 5th.
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I want to point out that videos from CVPR, ICCV and WACV are freely available on the CVF YouTube channel:
We've added a slew of links to these videos in the open access archive () recently, including WACV 2020. Check them out!
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The
#CVPR2020
open access proceedings is now live! Available on the the Computer Vision Foundation open access archive:
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The Computer Vision Foundation open access proceedings team is proud to announce that the
#CVPR2024
proceedings is now online:
Main conference:
Workshops:
Enjoy and I'll see all of you in Seattle!
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And the
#CVPR2022
open access proceedings is live folks:
The Workshop and Demo papers are up on as well.
Enjoy!
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The
#CVPR2021
Open Access Proceedings has been released:
This includes *dozens* of workshops with individual proceedings.
Enjoy! (And don't forget to register for the conference if you haven't already: )
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Extremely grateful to have won this year's Mark Everingham Prize at
#ECCV2022
! The best part about serving the computer vision community for me has been working with so many fascinating and friendly folks --- if you haven't volunteered before, I strongly encourage it...
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The Computer Vision Foundation has just posted all of the recorded talks from
#ICCV2023
up on its YouTube channel.
Check them out here:
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CVPR 2020 oral presentations (main conference and workshops) are now up on YouTube:
We've added links on the open access archive site as well:
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And here is the tweet thread everyone at
#CVPR2024
has been waiting for: the results of the PAMI TC vote on the motions.
Motion 1 passes by a landslide. Closed source comparisons must now be justified by reviewers.
Results for motion 1:
Did not vote: 10746
Yes: 1149
No: 111
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I am pleased to announce the release of the CVPR 2018 Open Access Proceedings:
Enjoy!
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Motion 3: Repeal of the CVPR Social Media Ban
Yes: 626
No: 418
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The
@WACV2025
website is up:
Important paper submission dates:
Round 1 Submissions: July 15th
Round 2 Submissions: Sept. 9th
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The
#CVPR2024
website is now live at:
We're still getting our calls online, but the program related info on submissions, reviewing, etc. is available. This site is the one-stop-shop for all of your CVPR needs...
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The
#ICCV2021
Open Access Proceedings has been released!
Peruse the main conference:
Or maybe browse the 50+ (!) workshops:
And don't forget to register for the conference:
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Omega from the one and only
@cDc_Pulpit
dropped by my tech ethics class this morning to chat about BBSs, text files, and the hacker scene's relationship with the news media in the 80s and 90s.
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Happy to announce that
@cwforstall
and I finally got our act together and wrapped up our book *Quantitative Intertextuality*. It's out this month from Springer Nature. If you've been following the
@tesseraeproject
, you'll like what we have to say in this volume.
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Voting is now closed for the motions proposed at the
#CVPR2022
PAMI-TC meeting. All motions have passed:
Motion 1: Withdrawn Submissions Will No Longer Be Made Inaccessible to Reviewers
Yes: 867
No: 354
Motion 2: Making Authors Responsible for Reviewing
Yes: 677
No: 553
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Big news from the Computer Vision Foundation: we are expanding our open access archive to include additional conferences. First up: ECCV 2018! The papers are now live:
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The
#CVPR2024
Call for AI Art is now up:
Building from
@jon_barron
's awesome initiative at
#CVPR2023
, we're expanding the art gallery to a standalone event run by our amazing curator
@elluba
! If you're into creating AI art, consider submitting a piece.
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I'm really proud of this paper --- work from my lab and Adobe Research on using human perception to improve automatic handwritten document transcription. Especially for Latin manuscripts from the Medieval period.
Data Science research moves quickly. Stay up-to-date with the latest publication by
@brianpricephd
#NeuralNetwork
#LossFunction
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CHILDCARE AT
#CVPR2022
We are working with
@KiddieCorp
to provide onsite childcare on Tuesday through Friday only. During registration (), please let us know which days/hours you are interested in and you will receive further information.
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The
#WACV2020
proceedings is now online:
This is the first edition of WACV to be co-sponsored by the Computer Vision Foundation and IEEE
@ComputerSociety
. We are excited to be able to release all papers open access this year.
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Back home in these austere winter woods after a resoundingly successful
#WACV2022
on the Big Island of Hawaii. As a chair, I didn't quite know what to expect when I landed in Kona last week. This was the first hybrid
@ComputerSociety
/ CVF conference we've held. A few thoughts:
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Result of the vote on the motion raised at
#WACV2024
codifying an applications track at the conference:
Yes: 151
No: 10
The motion passes! Aloha 🏝️ and see you next year in Arizona 🏜️
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The trailer for my fall course just dropped:
I cannot wait to teach this class --- we're covering everything from Aristotle to AI. The philosophy of tech work? Check. Computer hackers? Check. Self-driving cars? We've got those too...
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The March issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
Big news: I am the new TC Chair! Read my message to the community, as well as outgoing Chair Bryan Morse's farewell message.
Conferences will be coming back strong in 2022!
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New paper out from my lab in T-PAMI: Measuring Human Perception to Improve Handwritten Document Transcription ()
Here we tackle the task of transcribing Latin manuscripts from the 9th century using NNs trained with psychophysical measurements of reading.
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Motion 3 did pass. The steering committee will take this indication of support for the Dubai location for
#ICCV2029
into consideration when making a final decision on the venue.
Results for motion 3:
Did not vote: 10758
Yes: 751
No: 497
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While catching up on some things I missed at
#CVPR2018
, I came across this terrific presentation by
@timnitGebru
on avoiding clique culture within the community:
Slides 8 & 9 are particularly salient.
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The June issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
The
#CVPR2023
PAMI TC meeting will be held Wednesday, June 21st at 3:00pm in East Exhibit Halls A–B. Three motions will be discussed and voted upon, including a proposed repeal of the social media ban.
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Starting to get nervous about the question of what to do with computer vision community comms if this site blows up 😬
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I wrote a piece on the pandemic, as one does these days. But this take is a bit different. I examine the unintended consequences of the extraordinary uptick in public interest in COVID science. What I found is troubling.
Open access in
@BulletinAtomic
:
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The July issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
Check out the post-CVPR conference news, plus calls for upcoming TC meetings and other vision conferences. Important: the call for motions for
#ICCV2023
is out. I need all proposed motions by 9/1.
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I’m fascinated by the
#CVPR2023
AI art gallery… this is perhaps the most interesting thing in the expo hall.
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Extra gratifying that the review of my book appears in the special A.I. issue with this elite cover art:
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It's official: I will be joining
@NotreDameIAS
next year as a faculty fellow to pursue work on visual media and trust.
Notre Dame produced this pretty sweet pump up video to introduce the program. Love that cast!
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Motion 1: Conference and TC Ombud Positions
Yes: 407
No: 33
Motion 2: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
Yes: 355
No: 94
Motion 3: Voluntary Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
Yes: 388
No: 58
Motion 4: Social-Media Limitation During Review
Yes: 370
No: 83
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Notre Dame has been in the news a lot lately, but this is the only article you need to read to get a sense of who we really are as a university. Leo McWilliams is a tremendous asset to
@NDengineering
.
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Whenever I’m wistful for airline travel, I eat one of these individually wrapped cookies that
@NotreDameIAS
has a seemingly endless supply of.
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The
#CVPR2024
Call for Demos is up:
The deadline is March 10th, so you have plenty of time to cook up some cool stuff...
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Phenomenal guest lecture in my security class today by
@mike_schiffman
.
@r00t0wns
got a shoutout.
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My new book A History of Fake Things on the Internet launches *today*! It's an Editor's Pick for the Best History Books of December over at Amazon:
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Putting the Patrick in Fitzpatrick Hall this morning with this newly installed stained glass panel. Engineering is one of Saint Patrick's lesser known patronages.
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Just in time for
#ICCV2023
, the new PAMI-TC website is up and running:
All relevant (and up-to-date!) info on conferences, awards, and committees is there. Of particular interest to the community, we have a list of passed motions:
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@DeepMindAI
Hey DeepMind, you may want to check out this paper: PsyPhy: A Psychophysics Driven Evaluation Framework for Visual Recognition
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Prepping this classic Pentium running 98 for today’s Archaeology of Hacking lecture.
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The June issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
Motions for the TC meeting at
#CVPR2022
are included. If you'll be at CVPR, join us at 6pm on 6/21 for an overview of what's happening within the vision community.
Lots of open calls out there as well...
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I'm pretty proud of this meme I made for my talk at the Visual Perception via Learning in an Open World workshop at
#CVPR2024
. No you can't solve open world learning with straight-up reinforcement learning...
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Where it all started
@LehighU
. I never imagined all those hours I spent hanging out in Packard Lab as an undergrad would eventually set me on course to becoming a professor… A trip down memory lane visiting campus today with
@LehighCSE
’s
@AparnaBharati
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New piece on the "Criminality from Face" Illusion with Mike King and Kevin Bowyer. The idea that AI can be used to predict criminality from faces keeps bubbling up from the literature --- we explain why it's impossible.
#techethics
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As we get into the holidays, I’m reminded of how thankful I am for this crew of exceptional grad students.
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Pre-print of the long awaited position paper: "The Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning for Robotics." Provocative stuff from
@nikoSuenderhauf
,
@maththrills
,
@Juxi
,
@RaiaHadsell
,
@pabbeel
, my lab and others:
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Attending
#WACV2024
? Drop by the IEEE
@ComputerSociety
booth at 8pm where I'll be doing a book signing event! The first 50 people to come by the booth will receive a free copy of A History of Fake Things on the Internet! See you there...
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It's been rather frustrating to see "Internet culture" bleed over into reviewing over the past few years. Remember: the paper you are reviewing isn't a tweet you're responding to!
#ReviewerGuidelines
#ICCV2021
#Day4_of_40
"Be Professional: Belittling or sarcastic comments have no place in the reviewing process. Write a courteous, informative, incisive, and helpful review that you would be proud to sign with your name (were it not anonymous)."
4/N
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If you're attending
#WACV2023
, drop by the PAMI TC meeting on Thursday 1-2pm in Naupaka V–VII.
Meeting Agenda:
- Intro and Thank Yous
- WACV Awards Recap
- WACV 2023 Report
- Sponsorship Update
- Meeting Updates
- TC Updates
- Open Discussion on CV Community
See you there!
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The April issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
This is a big pre-CVPR edition: the TC meeting is slated for June 21st at 4pm. See the calls for motions as well as TC awards. Many CVPR workshops still have open calls. Hope to see you in Vancouver!
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Motion 2 did not pass. The rebuttal format will not change.
Results for motion 2:
Did not vote: 10759
No: 768
Yes: 479
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The January issue of the PAMI-TC newsletter is out:
Don't miss the
#CVPR2022
deadline for demos:
Deadlines for SIGGRAPH and ECCV coming up as well.
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Woke up to some good news this morning: our paper on using visual psychophysics for making face recognition algorithms more explainable was accepted to ECCV 2018!
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I want to thank everyone who participated in the rather healthy dialogue at yesterday's TC meeting. It's good to see the community thinking hard about the fundamentals of how our conferences operate.
The next TC meeting will be in Paris at
#ICCV2023
. See you there!
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Not CVF... but I still endorse this open access content :)
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