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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I missed this week's total eclipse, so my new obsession is to one-up everyone and see a total eclipse AND a Manhattanhenge at the same time. How long will that take? About 6 million years, or 330,000 if you're okay relaxing what counts as Manhattanhenge.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you're a fan of both 90s Eurodance and Weird Al-style medleys, you might like Nerdkern's very fun track, "Nonstop Copyright Infringement": youtu.be/wLBHc6DGbZQ?...

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Nonstop Copyright Infringement

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My favorite genre of video game is "repeated sphere".

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you want to hear very pleasantly evocative American music, try the Pastorale from Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story Suite. youtu.be/LbQO393FrvE?...

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Louisiana Story Suite: I. Pastoral

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sean Bell, Kavita Bala, and I received a SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for our 12-year-old paper, Intrinsic Images in the Wild (IIW -- I like to call it "Double-I Double-U", but that name didn't catch on).

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Admission that when I read "ImageSpirit: Verbal Guided Image Parsing" back in 2014, I thought editing images with language was a really silly idea. Now I think this is a brilliant idea that was way ahead of its time! arxiv.org/pdf/1310.4389

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Kwang Moo Yi @kmyid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Xiangli et al., "Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!" Metric depth estimators aren't actually metric. With curated, scaled data, they can be adapted to be better.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I really like the metric depth prediction problem because it involves fundamental computer vision questions, like How Big is a Thing? and How Far is a Thing?

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's a real honor to receive the Thomas Huang Prize, which memorializes a figure in computer vision who had tremendous impact through his research and mentorship.

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Aditya Chetan @justachetan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Humans can watch tasks like cooking or assembly and reason about what happened, when, and between which parts. Can LVLMs do the same? We built Flat-Pack Bench to test this – and found there is still a long way to go. Accepted at #CVPR2026! 🎥🪑🧩(1/n)

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I love this sign! I'm guessing it was designed in MacWrite in 1993?

Sign says "Big John's Moving" in all caps in a font that looks like the Chicago font common on Macs in the early 1990s.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Or, one could stop to consider that this is a really bad idea?

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If you are applying for NSF CAREER, and don't mind watching an ancient 360p video -- I was invited to give a talk on my experience writing one at a CAREER workshop in 2012 and it made its way to YouTube. Someone just reminded me this existed, so I thought I'd share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKW...

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NSF CISE Career Workshop - Noah Snavely (May 18, 2012)

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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

VarSplat: Uncertainty-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Robust RGB-D SLAM Anh Thuan Tran, Jana Kosecka tl;dr: law of total variance+alpha compositing->per-splat appearance variance->differentiable per-pixel uncertainty map arxiv.org/abs/2603.09673

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 22/03/2026

Very excited about @nthngdy.bsky.social's new work! It really gets to the bottom (or top, depends where the head in LMs is 😜) and fundamentals of contemporary LLMs. A real treat of a paper: solid theory, and very cool experiments.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Does anyone have any tips for making OpenReview less agonizingly slow?

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The time I Tweeted (in jest) that Bluesky is the new Usenet somehow got me clowned on by the ClassicUsenet subreddit. www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUse...

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

At kids' parties a lot of dads go in for a "clap shake" type greeting. Was I supposed to learn how to do this at some point?

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

An en dash seems to be a more reliable AI tell than an em dash.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This might be the biggest job in (open) science. Cornell is creating a new non-profit organization to house @arxiv.bsky.social -- and hiring a new person to lead it. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

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Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678

arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Life: A User's Manual (Perec 1978) prefugured the "That's the cup of a carpenter" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Excerpt from Perec's Life a User's Manual:

Professor Shaw did of course know Jean-Baptiste Rousseau's catalogue, of which the original was inset in his Quarli, and Maurice de Saxe's letter. But he didn't know Beccaria's letter: it made him jump for joy, for the description "sigillated earthenware vase" was, finally, support for the theory he'd always held, but never dared to publish: the Vase in which Joseph of Arimathæa had gathered the Blood of Christ, on the evening of the Passion, had no reason to be made of gold, brass, or bronze, even less cause to be carved from a single emerald stone, but was, quite plainly, earthenware: an ordinary piece of pottery Joseph had bought at the market before going to wash the Wounds of his Saviour. In his enthusiasm Shaw wanted to edit and publish Beccaria's letter, and Sherwood had all the trouble in the world to persuade him not to, promising him he would have the material for an even more sensational article when they found the Vase!

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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

ZipMap: Linear-Time Stateful 3D Reconstruction with Test-Time Training @haian-jin.bsky.social, Rundi Wu, Tianyuan Zhang, Ruiqi Gao, @jonbarron.bsky.social, @snavely.bsky.social, @holynski.bsky.social tl;dr: another(?) TTT+VGGT arxiv.org/abs/2603.04385

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Attention-grabbing idea for an academic paper: Somehow work your personal phone number into the title, like those old LifeLock ads featuring the CEO's social security number. I bet this kind of stunt would garner attention, but I haven't figured how to work it naturally into a CVPR paper.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I thought Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie was a fantastic comedy film! I went in knowing nothing about the premise and had a great time. I have no idea how they filmed parts of it, especially on a budget of just $2M. A nice time in the theater.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If you are attending @wacvconference.bsky.social in Tucson next month and stopping in Phoenix, I highly recommend checking out Organ Stop Pizza -- the most fun restaurant I've ever been to. Home of the "world's largest Wurlitzer theater organ" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_S...

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I found this old bassoon sheet music in storage, and tried to have Gemini scan it to PDF. I think it is getting better with music? But still goes off the rails. (ChatGPT does even worse.)

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The CVPR process seems driven by the goal of extracting 3 reviews for each paper, a goal that seems to lead to a lot of angst. Is there a reason why 3 is a magic number? Why not two, or even one (assuming the quality is high)?

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you are looking for a new podcast to get into, I recommend Topics with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Even though they are comedians, they aren't afraid to dive into some weighty topics! www.earwolf.com/show_archive...

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What are some examples of computer vision papers that have attractive system diagrams?

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Today I want to share two new works on this topic: Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425 Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492 1/9

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Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training TTT3R offers a simple state update rule to enhance length generalization for #CUT3R — No fine-tuning required! 🔗Page: rover-xingyu.github.io/TTT3R We rebuilt @taylorswift13’s "22" live at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards - in 3D!

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Nathaniel Burgdorfer @nate-burgdorfer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We present a new approach to inference-time scene optimization, which we name Radiant Triangle Soup (RTS) www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.23642. Also check out really great concurrent work from Held et al. @janheld.bsky.social, Triangle Splatting arxiv.org/abs/2505.19175

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🧠How “old” is your model? Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults. 🏆 Prizes: 🥇$1K to the top model 🥈🥉$500 📅 Deadline: 10/7/25 🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social

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KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

ChatGPT and Gemini both seem to struggle with sheet music. They both insist that this excerpt is in D major (2 sharps), and resist any attempt to tell them that there 3 sharps in the key signature. I think this is really cool and interesting!

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Think LMMs can reason like a 3-year-old? Think again! Our Kid-Inspired Visual Analogies benchmark reveals where young children still win: ey242.github.io/kiva.github.... Catch our #ICLR2025 poster today to see where models still fall short! Thurs. April 24 3-5:30 pm Halls 3 + 2B #312

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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Dynamic Camera Poses and Where to Find Them Chris Rockwell, @jtung.bsky.social, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, David F. Fouhey, Chen-Hsuan Lin tl;dr: a large-scale dataset of dynamic Internet videos annotated with camera poses arxiv.org/abs/2504.17788

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Rundong Luo @redfairy2002.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

1/6 🔍➡️ How to transform standard videos into immersive 360° panoramas? We've designed a new AI system for video-to-360° panorama generation! Our key insight: large-scale data is crucial for robust panoramic synthesis across diverse scenes.

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is really nice work on visual discovery from @boyangdeng.bsky.social!

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carldoersch.bsky.social @carldoersch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io

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Jon Barron @jonbarron.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A thread of thoughts on radiance fields, from my keynote at 3DV: Radiance fields have had 3 distinct generations. First was NeRF: just posenc and a tiny MLP. This was slow to train but worked really well, and it was unusually compressed --- The NeRF was smaller than the images.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Fifth Ave jammed #handsoff

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Haian Jin @haian-jin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🚀 We’ve just released the code and checkpoints for our #ICLR2025 Oral paper: "LVSM: A Large View Synthesis Model with Minimal 3D Inductive Bias". Check it out below 👇 🔗 Code: github.com/haian-jin/LVSM 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.17242 🌐 Project Page: haian-jin.github.io/projects/LVSM/

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Anand Bhattad @anandbhattad.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

[1/10] Is scene understanding solved? Models today can label pixels and detect objects with high accuracy. But does that mean they truly understand scenes? Super excited to share our new paper and a new task in computer vision: Visual Jenga! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.21770 🔗 visualjenga.github.io

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Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

#Backslash at #CornellTech, dedicated to advancing new works of art and technology that escape convention, has announced Mimi Ọnụọha as its first Backslash Fellow: tech.cornell.edu/news/mimi-on... “This work feels like a marked evolution for me personally,” said Ọnụọha. @snavely.bsky.social

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Angjoo Kanazawa @akanazawa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Exciting news! MegaSAM code is out🔥 & the updated Shape of Motion results with MegaSAM are really impressive! A year ago I didn't think we could make any progress on these videos: shape-of-motion.github.io/results.html Huge congrats to everyone involved and the community 🎉

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Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think Qianqian et al's work is really cool! The problem of modeling state within a 3D reasoning system is quite interesting. (And I believe it's pronounced "cuter".)

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