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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What I'm reading and playing, a multi-day thread: _The Study of Fugue_, Alfred Mann, 1966 9780393096750 _Kristin Lavransdatter_, ‎ Sigrid Undset, trans by Tiina Nunnally. 1920-22, 3 books in a series, I'm in the middle. 978-0143039167 1/

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Image Matching Challenge 2026. It is named "IMC 2025 On-going". - It will be living for longer than "until next CVPR" - multiyear leaderboard. - No prize, but invite to talk about solution at CVPR. - Dataset+metrics same as 2025. www.kaggle.com/competitions... #CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social

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Image Matching Challenge 2025 Ongoing

Ongoing leaderboard for Image Matching Challenge 2025.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

You still have 2 weeks to submit your paper to Image Matching Workshop at #CVPR2026 Deadline: March 16. Topics: anything related to image matching and 3D reconstruction. cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Submit your paper of structured reconstruction -- CAD, semantic, wireframe, city monitoring, etc., to USM3D 2026! cmt3.research.microsoft.com/USM2026 Deadline: March 24, 2026. @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026 #USM3D2026 #USM3D

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

[reading rec] Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman. 1st published in 2020, reissued in 2024. ‎ISBN 978-0593820247 I bought this book for one of my teen kids -- the teen loved the book so much, they recommended it to me. Aliens have turned Earth into a reality-show game, join Carl & cat Donut ..

Cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl, has a man running with a lit stick of dynamite, followed by a cat with a crown on her head.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

[reading rec] Tregian's Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician. Anne Cuneo. Translated from the French by Roland Glasser & Louise Rogers Lalaurie. ISBN 978-1908276544 The life of Francis Tregian, copyist of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. 1/

book cover features the title and a repeating pattern of a man in Renaissance-era clothes sitting at a virginal.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

[reading rec] Sun, stone and shadows : 20 great Mexican short stories / edited by Jorge F. Hernández. 2008. ISBN 9789681685942 Author selections : Mexican authors born during the first half of the twentieth century. The organization is neat -- by amorphous themes -- "fantastic unreal" etc. 1/

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

[reading rec] The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson, 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793. Set in N Korea, an orphan -- who may not be an orphan! -- makes his way in a difficult world. Themes of propaganda and creation of conflicting constraints on thinking & behavior. Reality and identity.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/06/2025

Secret to a successful research career: 1. Get super lucky and have the stars align for your first year 2. Repeat ~40 times 3. Retire

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

[reading rec] Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by pianist Jeremy Denk (2022). ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812995985 I saw Denk perform, of all places, Purdue U, w Joshua Bell (violin). The book is fantastic -- mix of autobiography, musical analysis, piano playing. 1/

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I finished reading Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_. I had a tough time getting into the earlier stories in the collection but loved the later ones. Next, I am looking for the Enriquez's other short story collection, _The Dangers of Smoking in Bed_.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My wonderfully weird children are back in school as of today, ahhhh quiet again 🫠

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

[reading rec] Mariana Enriquez, _Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories_, trans. from Spanish by Megan McDowell. Original is _Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego_, 2016. Literary fiction / horror stories that I still think about ... despite reading this collection a few years ago.

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

One of my PhD students got their visa revoked. I know of other cases amongst my AI colleagues. This is not what investing in US leadership in AI looks like. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

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US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets?

Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

VSLAM-LAB: A Comprehensive Framework for Visual SLAM Methods and Datasets Alejandro Fontan, Tobias Fischer, Javier Civera, Michael Milford tl;dr: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04457

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The AI for Science summer school, coorganized by CNRS and U of Chicago will be in Paris, June 30th to july 4th, register asap if you want attend! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

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AI+Science Summer School 2025 – DSI arrow-right-large arrow-left-smallarrow-right-large-greyarrow-right-large-yellowarrow-right-largearrow-right-long-yellowarrow-right-smallclosefacet-arrow-down...

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Mark Hauser @markhauser.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Mrs. Blackbird looking for nesting material. Have a great day☕🖖 #Amsel #blackbird 📷 🌿 🪶 🐦 #Nikon #Fotografie #naturephotography #photography #birds #wildlife

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

One of the perfect da share zone memes 🤌

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Teemu Sarapisto @tsarpf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just received the first volume, and damn, clearly a ton of effort was put into it! There's a ~90 page intro to "foundations of complexity science" (which is also sold separately). (The super interesting) papers each have a 5-10 page intro with historical context, and are full of annotations ❤️

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

MP-SfM: Monocular Surface Priors for Robust Structure-from-Motion Zador Pataki, @pesarlin.bsky.social Johannes L. Schonberger, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social tl;dr: using monodepth to reconstruct w/o co-visible triplets. Many ablations and details. M3Dv2 FTW demuc.de/papers/patak...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 21/03/2025

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷 Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa... Big 🧵👇 with details!

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Welcome to our world Riona! We lost Inca the Rottweiler at 8 years old about a month ago. It didn't feel right, to be at home with no dog, and I missed inca terribly. We found Riona the Rottweiler at an SPCA and she is a gem. Nikon z6ii, f/1.8, 1/400s, ISO4000, 50mm, handheld.

A Rottweiler female dog lies on a floor mattress, and looks off camera. She has a crinkly ball at her feet. She has a gray muzzle and looks friendly.

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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Fixing the RANSAC Stopping Criterion Johannes Schönberger, Viktor Larsson, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social tl;dr: ratio between the number of all-inlier samples and the number of possible samples->fix the approximate probability in RANSAC arxiv.org/abs/2503.07829

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

AnyCalib: On-Manifold Learning for Model-Agnostic Single-View Camera Calibration Javier Tirado-Garín, Javier Civera tl;dr: FOV field parameterization >> Perspective field. Sota on focal length estimation arxiv.org/abs/2503.12701

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A Framework for Reducing the Complexity of Geometric Vision Problems and its Application to Two-View Triangulation with Approximation Bounds Felix Rydell @bokmangeorg.bsky.social @fredkahl.bsky.social Kathlén Kohn tl;dr:cool for triangulation,won't pretend I got the math arxiv.org/abs/2503.08142

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

8-Calves Image dataset Xuyang Fang, Sion Hannuna, Neill Campbell tl;dr: 1 hour video of 8 calves. + some object detector & classifier eval arxiv.org/abs/2503.13777

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This morning I woke up at 6 to spend some time in Jurong before going to work. Hoping to finally find the black bittern... Well, the bittern remained hidden, but hornbills came and said hello!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This has only been possible through NIH funding. Funding biomedical science through the NIH has been one of the greatest accomplishments of the United States of America for America, and for the world. We are ALL better for the work that passionate scientists funded by the NIH have been able to do.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is so evil that it defies understanding. A transplant surgeon on an H1B visa was deported, despite a court injunction. She had committed no crimes. This must stop. We must stand together to protect immigrants and visitors against state terrorism. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

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Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.

A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

[book recommendation] tidying up, I picked up my copy of _The Old Drift_, Namwali Serpell, 2019, ISBN 9781101907146. A fantastic book, set in Zambia over a century. Historical fiction & science fiction; racism, disease, technology, gov't control all collide.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/03/2025

I am so angry about what is happening in the US, and to Columbia University students. The US government are entrapping students, lying about them, upending their whole lives. "The department [of Homeland Security] did not provide any evidence for its allegations." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her

Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

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Thomas Steinke @stein.ke · 11/03/2025

Excellent post from (my former😢 colleague) Nicholas Carlini on the differences between copyright law & privacy research. In particular, from a privacy perspective, "was training data memorized?" is a yes/no question; we aren't trying to quantify how much data was memorized beyond "some" vs "none".

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What my privacy papers (don't) have to say about copyright and generative AI

My work on privacy-preserving machine learning is often cited by lawyers arguing for or against how generative AI models violate copyright. This maybe isn't the right work to be citing.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL Columbia: [slaps student] Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC Columbia: [kicks student in groin] Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL Columbia: [punches brown student in nose] Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm sight-reading some Scarlatti sonatas -- inspired by a new CD of Scarlatti I'm listening to. These sonatas are *so wonderfully weird*. Usually, Scarlatti has lots of || 3rds, here || 6ths & big jumps -- 2 8ves in l.h.. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.366 Scott Ross youtu.be/olf197Fh2gQ

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Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in F major, K.366

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Fixing the RANSAC Stopping Criterion Johannes Schönberger, Viktor Larsson, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social tl;dr: original RANSAC formula for number of iterations underestimates for hard cases and overestimates for easy. Here is corrected one -> better results arxiv.org/abs/2503.07829

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Marc Venema @marcvenema.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Red Fox pouncing on prey. It's always fun watching the subjects we photograph while they hunt. Many times they miss... but sometimes they come up with what they were after... as was the case in this instance. #wildlifephotography #redfox #fox #naturephotography

A red fox leaps into the air with her eyes locked on prey down below. It was a successful hunt as the fox caught a vole in the melting snow.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Feeling frustrated about the aid situation to Ukraine, I donated to Come Back Alive recently and they have some neat artwork when doing so. savelife.in.ua/en/

A post-card like image, author Anastasia Gaydaenko, of a woman sitting in a chair. The woman has on a wedding dress and veil, as well as a military jacket and boots, and a flak jacket and firearm next to the chair. She is stitching up a wound on her leg.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Explaining Human Preferences via Metrics for Structured 3D Reconstruction @jacklangerman.bsky.social Denys Rozumnyi, Yuzhong Huang, @ducha-aiki.bsky.social tl;dr: we asked 3D modelers to rank wireframe reconstructions & compared it to ranking by metrics. Observations🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2503.08208

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Matías Mattamala @mmattamala.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

“Beyond Measure” by @jjvincent.bsky.social is an awesome book. I highly recommend it. It’s not just about history, but a deeper reflection on all the social implications of the act of measuring.

A picture of the front cover of the book “Beyond Measure” by James Vincent

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

MUSt3R: Multi-view Network for Stereo 3D Reconstruction Yohann Cabon, Lucas Stoffl, Leonid Antsfeld, Gabriela Csurka, Boris Chidlovskii, Jerome Revaud, @vincentleroy.bsky.social tl;dr: DUST3R for visual odometry - "just concatenate" (c) Amazing arch simplicity arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01661 #CVPR2025

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Image-Based Relocalization and Alignment for Long-Term Monitoring of Dynamic Underwater Environments Beverley Gorry, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford, Alejandro Fontan tl;dr: SuperPoint +LightGlue can breath underwater. arxiv.org/abs/2503.04096

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Carolina Wren, top, and female Downy Woodpecker, bottom. These two birds don't usually share space ... but this feeder is so desirable, that the birds have gotten more and more tolerant of each other close by over time. At home. Nikon z6ii, f/8. 1/500s, ISO1600, 410mm, tripod & gimbal.

A feeder shaped like a sunflower has suet and peanuts in the center. A small woodpecker hangs off the bottom, and a small wren looks down from the top.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Female N. Cardinal at home. Nikon z6ii, f/8. 1/640s, ISO2000, 380mm, tripod & gimbal.

A medium-sized bird perched on a piece of dead wood, tan and brown background.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"What Ketamine does to the Human Brain," Shayla Love, Atlantic, gift link -- h/t Today in Tabs I read this a couple days ago & can't stop thinking about it when I see yet more Elon Musk antics. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain

Excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We have extended the deadline for paper submission for Image Matching Workshop. Anything image matching or 3D reconstruction related is welcomed Now it is March 17 @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2025 image-matching-workshop.github.io

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It is pointless, but. My US friends - it will not stop after 4 years with next elections. Either you stop it yourself in some way, or there will be no fair elections next time. Democracy is fragile. P.S. If you like what is going on - enjoy.

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