Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 09/07/2025Took some time, but we have released the code for our swarm distributed caging and transport system. Info and paper on GitHub: github.com/MISTLab/Swar... 010
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 08/07/2025🧠💤 New research in personalized #BrainStimulation using the Portiloop device: our latest paper shows how #AI can learn to improve detection of #sleep spindles (EEG signals linked to memory consolidation) for each specific subject. 📖 Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #PersonalizedMedicine 000
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 23/04/2025An excellent opportunity for world-calibre scientists. Come and join us @polymtl.bsky.social ! www.polymtl.ca/carriere/en/...polymtl.caProfessor - Canada Excellence Research Chair for Critical Innovations to Strengthen Canadian Technology SovereigntyPolytechnique Montréal is an internationally recognized engineering university. Located in the heart of Montréal on Mount Royal, it is renowned for the high quality of the training offered at all levels, and for its multidisciplinary and multisectoral research, at the forefront of the local,... 011
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 04/02/20251/3 We have released our #multi-robot #exploration #planner for #space applications! Designed for complex unconstrained environments, it mixes a local grid with a global graph planner, with the global graphs being synchronised when robots are in comms range. #field #robotics #autonomous #systems 191
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameAhmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social 02629
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 15/01/2025Giving a talk at the #Science of #Intelligence cluster at TU Berlin and online (Zoom) next week, "Field Collective Robotics: Challenges and Applications". You're welcome to join to see some of our recent developments. www.scienceofintelligence.de/event/giovan...scienceofintelligence.deGiovanni Beltrame (Polytechnique Montreal), "Field collective robotics: Challenges and applications" - scienceofintelligence.deGiovanni Beltrame is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, where he leads the Making Innovative Space 030
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 11/12/2024VLMs everywhere, I'm curious to see where these models for navigation will lead. Interesting work from NVIDIA/UCSD: Website: navila-bot.github.io arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.04453navila-bot.github.ioNaVILA: Legged Robot Vision-Language-Action Model for Navigation 030
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameJahir Argote-Gerald @jahirargote.bsky.social · 07/12/2024The rise of robotics 🤖 and autonomous systems is transforming cities 🌆! This global study identifies 32 opportunities, such as advanced eco-monitoring 🌿, and 38 challenges, including RAS waste 🛠️. It highlights the need for proactive policies to balance urban innovation with sustainability 🌍. #robotnature.comA global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems - Nature Ecology & EvolutionThe future challenges and potential opportunities of robotics and autonomous systems in urban ecosystems, and how they may impact biodiversity, are explored and prioritized via a global horizon scan o... 041
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameEmily Coffey @emilycoffey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Our recent cave neuroscience expedition, with @hrjourde.bsky.social and @beltrame.mistlab.ca: www.concordia.ca/news/stories... See also our thoughts about how to take cognitive neuroscience outside of the box! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #cognition #speleology #interdisciplinaryconcordia.caA caving expedition yields valuable insight into the challenges of field research - Concordia UniversityLearning how to practice science in extreme environments offers lessons far beyond the lab, new Concordia study shows 072
Reposted by Giovanni BeltramePessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁, 𝗛𝗼𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝘆? Good intro by Carlos Gershenson #complexity www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... 4436
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameNoah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I'm really excited about structure from motion, which is having a real renaissance (ACE0, FlowMap, MASt3R-SfM, VGGSfM, GLOMAP, etc). It will be cool to see how SfM methods interact with VLMs -- SfM always seems like the last problem to jump on the latest bandwagon, but maybe that will change. 1397
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 29/11/2024To quote Douglas Adams, I love the whooshing sound deadlines make as they fly by 030
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameMike Brevoort @mikebrevoort.com · 28/11/2024The Beyond A* paper is fascinating. In it they use algorithmic techniques (A*) to solve a problem to produce a large dataset of training data to use to train a neural network to reach the same level of performance as the algorithm… 1/2 arxiv.org/abs/2402.14083arxiv.orgBeyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics BootstrappingWhile Transformers have enabled tremendous progress in various application settings, such architectures still trail behind traditional symbolic planners for solving complex decision making tasks. In t... 1183
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameYoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Thank you to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social for this recognition of the Generative Adversarial Nets paper published ten years ago with @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social, Jean Pouget-Abadie, @memimo.bsky.social, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair and Aaron Courville. blog.neurips.cc/2024/11/27/a...blog.neurips.ccAnnouncing the NeurIPS 2024 Test of Time Paper Awards – NeurIPS Blog 419420
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 28/11/2024Very interesting paper, not only for neuroscientists 0111
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameKarsten Roth @confusezius.bsky.social · 28/11/2024🤔 Can you turn your vision-language model from a great zero-shot model into a great-at-any-shot generalist? Turns out you can, and here is how: arxiv.org/abs/2411.15099 Really excited to this work on multimodal pretraining for my first bluesky entry! 🧵 A short and hopefully informative thread: 213324
Reposted by Giovanni BeltramePolytechnique Montréal @polymtl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Voici un résumé des activités de commémoration du 6 décembre 1989 qui auront lieu au cours des prochains jours. polymtl.info/Fp1bi 065
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameAndrew Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social · 28/11/2024For my first post on Bluesky, this recent talk I did at the recent BMVA one day meeting on World Models is a good summary of my work on Computer Vision, Robotics and SLAM, and my thoughts on a bigger picture of #SpatialAI. youtu.be/NLnPG95vNhQ?...youtu.be1 Andrew Davison, Imperial College London - BMVA Symposium: Robotics Foundation & World ModelsYouTube video by BMVA: British Machine Vision Association 59024
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameVladimir Yugay @vyuga3d.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Introducing “MAGiC-SLAM: Multi-Agent Gaussian Globally Consistent SLAM”! We do SLAM with novel view synthesis capabilities on multiple simultaneously operating agents! vladimiryugay.github.io/magic_slam/i... 1/7 35117
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameFrançois Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 26/11/2024My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/ 461253247
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 25/11/2024Frustrating, yet incredibly exciting. The amount of progress in manipulation is fantastic. I wonder if they had any ripped shirts or things flying off the tables (probably). Source of the video: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0 050
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameJahir Argote-Gerald @jahirargote.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Check out the Distributed Robotics Systems Starter Pack: It features researchers exploring swarm robotics, multi-robot systems, modular robots, and more! Know someone who should be included? Suggest yourself or others in the replies! 🐝🤖 #Robotics #SwarmRobotics #DistributedRobotics #Swarm 3104
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 24/11/2024That's an interesting idea! I think it falls under the umbrella of robotics for #climate #change: precision agriculture, recuperation of rare earths from tailing mounds, maintenance of clean energy infrastructure... Good to see people looking into this! 000
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameChristian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/11/2024There are now several benchmarks testing spatial reasoning and agent capabilities of LLMs and VLMs: - arxiv.org/abs/2410.06468 (does spatial cognition ...) - arxiv.org/abs/2307.06281 (MMBench) - arxiv.org/abs/2411.13543 (BALROG) - additional points for the LOTR ref. 211413
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 24/11/2024The 2nd workshop on #Cooperative #Multi-Agent Systems #Decision-Making and #Learning: Human-Multi-Agent Cognitive Fusion will be held on 03/03/2025 in conjunction with #AAAI. We invite everyone to share your works as a paper contribution or an extended abstract. Site: www.is3rlab.org/aaai25-cmasd...is3rlab.orgCooperative Multi-Agent Systems Decision-making and Learning: Human-Multi-Agent Cognitive Fusion 060
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameGlen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024RLC will be held at the Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2025. I'm happy to say that we now have the conference's website out: rl-conference.cc/index.html Looking forward to seeing you all there! @rl-conference.bsky.social #reinforcementlearning 26019
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameCLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Sage Journals The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comThe Emerging Science of Interacting Minds - Thalia Wheatley, Mark A. Thornton, Arjen Stolk, Luke J. Chang, 2024For over a century, psychology has focused on uncovering mental processes of a single individual. However, humans rarely navigate the world in isolation. The mo... 0289
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameDr. Angelica Lim @petitegeek.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Interested in moving to beautiful Vancouver, Canada? 🇨🇦 We are recruiting Assistant and Associate Professors to the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. We are ranked #1 in Canada in Computer Vision (csrankings.org) 1218
Giovanni Beltrame @beltrame.mistlab.ca · 20/11/2024I'm really impressed by the evolution of humanoid robots. The hype is a bit too high, but progress is unmistakable 010
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project. 22878215
Reposted by Giovanni BeltrameFrank Dellaert @fdellaert.bsky.social · 16/11/2024We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems! Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxblnkd.inGitHub - SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release: Release repo for our SLAM HandbookRelease repo for our SLAM Handbook. Contribute to SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release development by creating an account on GitHub. 58326