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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of our NeurIPS reviewers thought our "value [...] is real and well-supported". 🤔 🙈

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I know what you did

ALT: I know what you did

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What fresh hell is this? Scholar inbox now comes with 2 min podcasts of each paper... I randomly choose two relocalization papers and they both started with "Imagine navigating a large, dark warehouse" ... No - I do not want to imagine this. Was this trained on YouTube slasher flicks? Why "dark"?!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚀We have PhD openings in my lab! 3D got pretty interesting :) Generation is getting better, which makes real scenes more interesting: things get used, opened, moved, etc We want to understand that in 3D: function, dynamics, physics 👉apply 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

En route to #ECCV2026! We will present AutoCompass at the main conference 10:30 AM on Sep 11 (Friday) and the Instance-Level Recognition and Generation Workshop as an invited poster, 10:00 AM on Sep 8 (Tuesday). nianticspatial.github.io/autocompass/

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AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak Labels

Robust visual localization from noisy GPS labels and accurate relative poses.

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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak Labels Javier Tirado-Garín, @asavio.bsky.social, Shuai Chen, @axelbarroso.bsky.social, Tommaso Cavallari, @dantkz.bsky.social, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, @ericbrachmann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2609.02798

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Welcome to the ECCV 2026 feed! Post and discuss ECCV 2026 papers, workshops, tutorials, talks, and social events. Use #ECCV2026 to make sure your post appears (other variants work too, e.g. #eccv). Link: bsky.app/profile/ekaz.... Please pin 📌 and share! Thanks! Made by @ekazakos.bsky.social.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New #ECCV2026 paper alert: 🧭 AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak Labels 🧭 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.02798 Website: nianticspatial.github.io/autocompass/ Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmUF...

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Vladimir Yugay @vyuga3d.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's been several weeks since I started my research internship at @nianticspatial.bsky.social in London. Excited to finally work with @ericbrachmann.bsky.social and the team!

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

ACTUALLY, that very same asteroid was already discovered 1990 by the hobby astronomer, Jürgen S.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think I am ready to be replaced by AI. My whole mentoring can be summarized by the following expert system: if True: print("Visualize everything.")

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have had 70 co-authors so far. I took some time to wire all these names up with their websites on my personal page. (The BOP papers have been a real pain. 😅) Fun to browse through what all these people have been up to since we collaborated.

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#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We are grateful to all of the 17,491 reviewers who helped make #CVPR2026 possible. We are especially pleased to recognize the following Outstanding Reviewers, whose high-quality reviews (as judged by their Area Chairs) placed them among the top 5% of reviewers. 1/2

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In my team we have two open positions on AI for robotics and in particular on manipulation, for junior and senior researchers. With us, connect fundamental research questions with real operational problems and contribute to emerging AI-driven robotics services. careers.werecruit.io/en/naver-lab...

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

It seems, that we have failed the communication about IMC26. Let's try again. The competition this year is here: kaggle.com/competitions... No prizes, but whole year leaderboard -- similar to KITTY and other academic competitions. 3D people, please retweet and share.

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Image Matching Challenge 2025 Ongoing

Ongoing leaderboard for Image Matching Challenge 2025.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We were pretty mad at the reviewer but they turned out to be reasonable. I understand the frustration that classical methods are often overlooked. Here, it was a genuine oversight. I did not know the E5+1 solver. Including it made the paper stronger. Full discussion: openreview.net/forum?id=rmD...

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A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera...

Visually localizing an image, i.e., estimating its camera pose, requires building a scene representation that serves as a visual map. The representation we choose has direct consequences towards...

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

FastForward has been accepted to #ICLR2026 and will be presented there next week. If you go, say hi to @axelbarroso.bsky.social. If not, don't fret. Axel has prepared a short video for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Qk...

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[ICLR 2026] Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks, but no thanks. You might get me after all if we submit, but for now it feels good to decline. Last year, it was a horrible experience to review for NeurIPS. And I had a reduced load of two papers....

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Even ScholarInbox wants me to focus. "Today, we found 1 (of 371) articles relevant for you. Relevance: -17"

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's time, dear #CVPR2026 reviewers. Time to decide.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If anything, I suspect that these tools will cover holes with persuasive bla bla. I do not think that authors are doing themselves a favour in the long run. (sorry for quote posting, not allowed to answer...)

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Interviews for our 2026 research internships will commence soon. It is not too late to apply! A lot of exciting stuff is happening in 3D vision, let's explore it together.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

AC pro tip: When reading reviews, mentally substitute the "confidence" rating (low, medium, high) with "overconfidence", and everything is much better calibrated.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

What a nice morning to find that Alzugaray, Taher @marwantaher.bsky.social , Davison @ajdavison.bsky.social have turned ACE into a SLAM system. Since we did ACE, I was wondering whether it was possible, and I always thought who if not those folks can pull it off. 🙂 ACESLAM: arxiv.org/abs/2512.14032

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

You know what season it is! Right. Internship application season. Niantic Spatial is offering research internships on a multitude of 3D vision topics: relocalization, reconstruction, 3D VLMs... Top tier papers regularly come out of our internships 🚀 nianticspatial.careers.hibob.com/jobs/0fc4871...

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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Robotics researchers, this is an occasion not to be missed: top-notch speakers in an excellent location in the Alps this February 🤖⛷️ It's the Winter School on Social Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia (SoRAIM), 9-13 Feb 2026 👇

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ah, Warner Bros. buys Netflix. ... Wait, what?

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Recording of the 10th R6D workshop #ICCV2025 w/ results of the 2025 BOP challenge is out: youtu.be/NymS-f4DNh0 3.5h of goodness dedicated to robot-object manipulation w/ Hao-Shu Fang (MIT), Maximilian Durner (DLR), Agastya Kalra+Vahe Taamazyan (Intrinsic) and Sergey Levine (Physical Intelligence)

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2738 Final 10th International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Of all my multiple Lufthansa flights on this journey, the only one that was punctual was the one with a short connection time, and that I therefore missed due to the previous one being late. Now, after one involuntary overnight stay: delay again. Great job @lufthansagroup.bsky.social

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Coarse plan for a 1-week rebuttal period: day 1: read the reviews day 2-6: calm down day 7: write the rebuttal

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

‼️ Major update to the #ACEZero code base. We added the capabilities of the #ICCV2025 paper on Scene Coordinate Reconstruction Priors. Gives you, e.g., a RGB-D version of ACE0. In the snipped below, I jointly reconstruct multiple RGB-D scans of ScanNet. github.com/nianticlabs/...

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hi everyone. Can we please stop naming methods in leetspeak? It slows down my writing - it is a skill I happily abandoned 20 years ago.

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Tomas Hodan @tomhodan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

10th (!!) R6D workshop @ ICCV 2025: cmp.felk.cvut.cz/sixd/worksho... 🤖 Object pose estimation for industrial robotics 📢 Speakers: - Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley) - Haoshu Fang (MIT) - Maximilian Durner (DLR) - Agastya Kalra & Vahe Taamazyan (Intrinsic) 📊 BOP 2025 with new BOP-Industrial datasets

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

After next week, I REALLY need a break from PowerPoint.

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Looking forward to a busy #ICCV2025. I will give three (very different) talks at workshops and tutorials, see info below. We also present two papers, ACE-G and SCR Priors. And it's the 10th (!) anniversary of the R6D workshop, which we co-organize.

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Kwang Moo Yi @kmyid.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bruns et al., "ACE-G: Improving Generalization of Scene Coordinate Regression Through Query Pre-Training" Train a scene coordinate regressor with "map codes" (ie, trainable inputs) so that you can train one generalizable regressor. Then, find these "map codes" to localize.

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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026? My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate. For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌟 Scene Coordinate Reconstruction Priors at #ICCV2025 🌟 Can we learn what a successful reconstruction looks like, and use this knowledge when reconstructing new scenes? Explainer: youtu.be/RkV6U5xYc20 Project Page: nianticspatial.github.io/scr-priors Inspiring work by Wenjing Bian et al.!

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Walter Scheirer @wjscheirer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The #ICCV2025 main conference open access proceedings is up: openaccess.thecvf.com/ICCV2025 Workshop papers will be posted shortly. Aloha!

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🔥 ACE-G, the next evolutionary step of ACE at #ICCV2025 🔥 We disentangle coordinate regression and latent map representation which lets us pre-train the regressor to generalize from mapping data to difficult query images. Page: nianticspatial.github.io/ace-g/ Stellar work by Leonard Bruns et al.!

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I think it is a great time to have such a tutorial again. As we see competitive RANSAC-free approaches arise, it is worth looking back - and looking forward.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

For those going to @iccv.bsky.social, welcome to our RANSAC tutorial on October 2025 with - Daniel Barath - @ericbrachmann.bsky.social - Viktor Larsson - Jiri Matas - and me danini.github.io/ransac-2025-... #ICCV2025

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Whenever I do a voice over, I realize that I sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger when I say "coordinate". Unfortunately, in my line of work, I have to say "coordinate" a lot...

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