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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are recruiting an ELLIS PhD student (100% E13) at FAU Germany for a joint ANR-DFG project with Sarah Matta and Tinashe Mutsvangwa from IMT Atlantique. Apply via the ELLIS PhD program: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Image generated by Gemini (1/3)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I'm looking for a postdoc" "3D Computer Vision" 🎤🫳 #ECCV2026 And yes, I really am looking for a postdoc @csprofkgd.bsky.social please spread the world

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet me at #ECCV2026 today at 3pm I'll present the paper "AI-Experiment: an augmented reality art project co-created with artificial intelligence" at the #AI4VA Paper & Code: github.com/BernhardEgge... One of my favorite parts is, that paper & poster can be experienced in augmented reality!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Finally, a ban on π will also lead to world peace; modern weapon systems are worthless without π and missiles would no longer find their targets, and yes, even the atomic bomb can be traced back to π! Fukushima is also hidden within π! Now or Pi!! 8/8

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

π is described by mathematicians themselves as an unnatural number, but there even seem to be doubts about that; there is talk of pseudorandomness, and this discourse is suppressed in both school and university education. 6/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In our video last year, the first doubts about π arose; as it turns out, the past is documented within π. You can find all past Bitcoin prices within π, for example, yesterday's price at position 56039. 2/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Together with @mhundhausen.bsky.social, I am launching a petition and I need your help: We must ban π, preferably today! π is dangerous, illegal, and we must ban the use of π immediately. Share this petition such that π can finally be eliminated #pillegal #nowOrPi 1/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my last paper! It is over #SIGBOVIK eggerbernhard.ch/EggerFlashBo...

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We will have @csprofkgd.bsky.social presenting on Friday 13th at noon in lecture hall 13 at @fau.de "In Search of Universal Concepts" Very much looking forward to this visit!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

dAIper-Hack A hackathon to turn ideas into impact - hands-on innovation event jointly organized by @fau.de and P&G - three days - modern and classical Computer Vision and AI approaches - at the Scientific Center for AI and SuperTech Apply now! daiper.tf.fau.eu (latest by February 6th)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Heute ist ein schöner Artikel zu unserer AR-Erweiterung in den Erlanger Nachrichten. Vielen Dank an Robin Pfeiffer für die akribische Recherche! Zum diesen Link hier auf eurem Mobiltelefon öffnen und damit die Bilder in der Cauerstrasse 11 in Erlangen "scannen" eggerbernhard.ch/AIARt/

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I promised it so often! Glad that we finally made it happen: kudos to @andreead-a.bsky.social , @mert-o.bsky.social Timotei Ardelean, Nilofaar Jorkash Takuma Nishimura, Julian Stahl, Berke Uysal, Daniel Zieger who are the makers of all the fascinating videos Quote in Picture: Lee Sedol

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Wir sind dabei bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften Im Kinderprogramm dürft ihr ein, gemeinsam mit PsychologInnen entwickeltes, Spiel erleben nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/die-mac... Abends präsentieren wir die Augmented Reality Erweiterung unseres KI-Experimentes. Animierte Kunst! (1/2)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

You did publish this year at @cvprconference.bsky.social @eccv.bsky.social @acmsiggraph.bsky.social ‪@ieeevis.bsky.social or a similar? VMV in Erlangen offers a nectar track where we invite you to present your already published work in a nectar track 🗓️ Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2025

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Congratulations, to Saleeta Qadir for winning the worldwide best illusion of the year contest - very proud of her! Saleeta is just finishing her masters in AI @fau.de and is looking for exciting roles or research opportunities -hire her (or provide me with funding to do it myself)!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Today is your last chance to vote: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We proudly present the static spin illusion - a finalist of the Best Illusion of The Year Contest. You perceive a rotation? There is none! Saleeta Qadir student at @fau.de built this illusion using computer vision and image processing - please vote for her: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Great new world! The Bergkirchweih in Erlangen starts on Thursday June 6th... Except there is no Thursday June 6th this year

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

this sounds very lazy... you need to add at least one binary!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Finally let's revisit “AMOR: Ambiguous Authorship Order” our 2024 #SIGBOVIK contribution that resolved author ordering problems once and for all! We just implement animated author lists eggerbernhard.ch/AMOR.pdf (and no, our server is not down, your iPhone is just not ready for Science 2.0)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

To validate our method, we study (among others) how zero2hero would have influenced the number of citations if it had been used prior to publication (our time machine was used to travel back in time). Results are overwhelming. Check out the paper for more - you too deserve to be a hero 4/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Given a Latex document, zero2hero automatically extracts embarrassingly simple equations and makes them look extremely complex. We applied zero2hero to various not-so-successful papers (with < 1M citations) published after 2016. Can you spot yours? 3/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

zero2hero turns every paper into an award-winning masterpiece - and it is heavily used in our community! How the hell do we do that? Well, based on the fact that papers solely relying on *simple math* are more likely to be rejected, we simply over-complicate equations. 2/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tired of seeing your papers being rejected from @cvprconference.bsky.social ? Let's revisit our 2023 #SIGBOVIK paper: "From Zero to Hero: Convincing with Extremely Complicated Math", led by @maxweiherer.bsky.social Paper: mweiherer.github.io/zero2hero.pdf Code: github.com/mweiherer/ze... 1/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Dazzle patterns were a super smart idea to try to hide range, speed and heading of ships en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_... THIS IS HOWEVER ASSUMING ONE SINGLE VIEW - the moment we get more views, well... 3/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

With so called Erlkönig cars they are trying to hide the shape of their prototypes. We however show that the reconstruction with this pattern turns out fantastic and much better than without that pattern. With just a few photographs we can recover perfect shape. 2/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Three years after this transformative work we presented #SIGBOVIK, there are still Erlkönig cars on our streets! "A Free Computer Vision Lesson for Car Manufacturers or It is Time to Retire the Erlkönig" eggerbernhard.ch/erlkoenig.pdf Still proud of this work by @maxweiherer.bsky.social 1/4

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"ACTION: A Catchy Title Is all yOu Need!" eggerbernhard.ch/action.pdf another pearl from #SIGBOVIK 2022 Reviewer 2 raised concerns that our title actually proves that it is not only about the title but also an acronym. 3 years later we still refuse to thank the reviewer for their feedback.

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This work on "(Un)helper functions" was probably the most unhelpful project I was ever involved in - thanks for nothing @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social ! eggerbernhard.ch/unhelper.pdf This is unhelpful and of no interest to anyone who wants to learn to code, a complete waste of time #SIGBOVIK

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Following industry standards, we are holding the code and model back from the public to prevent its use by malicious actors. Since our method is image-based, it generalizes to real world graphs: comment with a 256x256 image and we will add error bars for free! 5/5

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It is unclear to us how we could have made it more clear that @neurobongo.bsky.social is not an author of this work. Last but not least - @garymarcus.bsky.social I hope you remember us from twitter/X and we would be thrilled if we can replicate this. 4/5

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Error bars derived in this work are based on n=10'000 datapoints and are much more trustworthy than any other error bar estimation technique. Our work is also first to derive hyperparameters solely based on MC Hammer album sales (shameless plug) 3/5

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our idea is simple, yet powerful. We propose a fully data-driven approach to derive error bars - exactly what you would expect from error bars. We also achieve superhuman performance, since those error bars are generated faster than by humans. 2/5

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Forget ChatGPT! This will revolutionize science! openCHEAT: Computationally Helped Error bar Approximation Tool - Kickstarting Science 4.0 eggerbernhard.ch/SIGBOVIK_ope... Plenty of happy users since 2021! 1/5

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"self driving is about two scalars" is what @jonbarron.bsky.social claimed in his keynote @3dvconf.bsky.social and he could not be more wrong! And this besides our impactful publication from 2020 on level 6 autonomous driving! sigbovik.org/2020/proceed... When will industry finally listen to us?

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It is our great pleasure to have Supritam Bhattacharjee here @cogcovi.bsky.social @fau.de He will in June start his PhD with Prof. Tinashe Mutsvangwa at IMT Atlantique and me funded through the EU HORIZON-MSCA SEED project

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It is our great pleasure to have Prof. Thilo Stadelmann from ZHAW in Switzerland here @cogcovi.bsky.social as part of his tour de @fau.de Thank you for your inspiring talk and great conversations! @eelisa.eu made us meet!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

just figured out why German is hard to learn... we just did read it the wrong all the time

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

An alle Erlanger: Am Donnerstag 20.15 Uhr trage ich im Collegium Alexandrinum der @fau.de vor "Synergie zwischen Mensch und KI" Der Vortrag ist öffentlich und richtet sich an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Hörsaal: 01.020, Henkestraße 91 collegium-alexandrinum.de

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

What are the odds that 5 labs start to work on a very similar story simultaneously? 4 papers on NeRFs with thermal+rgb images released within one week on arXiv! I think this example visualizes the crazy speed of the CVPR community Now let the Gaussians be splatted... mert-o.github.io/ThermalNeRF/

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Want to do 2 years of postdoc @cogcovi.bsky.social @unifau.bsky.social in Germany with me? Open Topic around 3D Computer Vision, Neural Rendering, Human Vision, Inverse Rendering, Statistical Shape Modelling or related

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Want to learn more about AI and Art? Sabine Lang will talk about the history of digital arts and I will make sure you understand how generative AI works! 4. Juli 18:00 in German nuernberg.digital/programm/det... 4. Juli 20:00 in English nuernberg.digital/programm/det... @unifau.bsky.social

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Don’t miss to read the full paper that contains exactly no details about the implementation eggerbernhard.ch/AMOR.pdf (and no, our server is not down, your iPhone is just not ready for Science 2.0) 6/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

We are @hannahhaensen.bsky.social , @kapoorshreya18.bsky.social, Andreea Dogaru, Maximilian Weiherer and me. How does AMOR resolve this for references? We just implemented animated references – that’s it! 3/n (the last animation of this thread - bsky can't do it)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

But we can’t stop here, right? It’s a long way to revolutionize science. There are also many more challenges regarding authorship order – we also have to come up with a novel way to cite ambiguous first authors. You name it: we just implemented animated citations – that’s it! 2/n (also animated :( )

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

It’s time to revolutionize authorship order in publications across fields #ScienceTwitter ! Our work “AMOR: Ambiguous Authorship Order” resolves author ordering problems once and for all! We just implement animated author lists – that's it @SIGBOVIK: eggerbernhard.ch/AMOR.pdf (should be animated)

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

In a gist of weakness, I suggested to fake the results to get more publicity but we quickly realized, that people would then start to question our scientific integrity and laugh at us - so let’s not do that and instead we will prove in our next experiment that the world is flat 7/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

So obviously the efforts taken to #fakeISS are much bigger than expected and they might involve towers out of nanotubes or ballons - don’t stop questioning!!! 6/n

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