Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026More information, including many views down 42nd Street looking towards New Jersey, and a .ics file you can add to your calendar, here: www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/ecl...cs.cornell.eduEclipse-Henge 000
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026After some hundreds of years, the predictions get a bit dicey. The fact of an eclipse is certain, but whether Manhattan will be under it is hard to know, due to uncertainties in the Earth's rotation over time (and, to a lesser degree, to continental drift). But there might be a nice szyzgy in 15433. 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026But it will get close (70% totality, 1.92 degrees above the horizon) on June 6, 2263, so start packing your bags! 100
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I 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. 120
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If 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?...youtu.beNonstop Copyright InfringementYouTube video by a gay walrus 030
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My favorite genre of video game is "repeated sphere". 010
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"An inland barge is towed into the inlet from interconnecting waterways. The rig crew completes its operation and its friendly drillers depart, leaving behind a clean environment and a wealthy family." 000
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Wikipedia describes the film's thrilling (and not at all propagandizing) plot as: "A young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon live an idyllic existence playing in the bayous of Louisiana. His elderly father allows an oil company to drill for oil in the inlet that runs behind their house. 100
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This now somewhat obscure music is extracted from Thomson's Pulitzer Prize winning score to 1948's Louisiana Story, a film by Robert J. Flaherty. 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If you want to hear very pleasantly evocative American music, try the Pastorale from Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story Suite. youtu.be/LbQO393FrvE?...youtu.beLouisiana Story Suite: I. PastoralYouTube video by Westphalian Symphony Orchestra - Topic 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In the 1980s Bill was conducted the Tucson Symphony, where my dad played clarinet and bass clarinet for a million years. My dad's favorite conductor! 020
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'll miss Bill McGlaughlin! His is one of the voices I've heard most in my life, as a fan of Exploring Music. www.wfmt.com/2026/07/24/b...wfmt.comBill McGlaughlin, Exploring Music Host and Champion of Classical Music, Dies | WFMTThe Peabody Award-winning musician, educator, composer, conductor, and founding host of WFMT's internationally syndicated radio series leaves behind an extraordinary legacy. 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Much of the work boiled down to amazing researcher Sean devising increasingly detail-oriented tasks for Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to decide which of two image points has a truly brighter albedo. It's really difficult to teach people not to just say "the brighter pixel is the brighter surface"! 020
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 26/07/2026This was a fun paper on building a real-world dataset for training and evaluating intrinsic image decomposition (I'll quote @jonbarron.bsky.social who pointed out that the previous standard dataset -- the MIT Intrinsic Images dataset -- has just 20 objects). 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Sean 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). 1111
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Admission 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 040
Reposted by Noah SnavelyKwang Moo Yi @kmyid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Xiangli 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. 132
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I think there are also other really cool sources of metric depth data yet to be discovered. As is often the case, I think creative new kinds of data is really important here! 010
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Strangely, current metric depth prediction models also seem to underestimate the size of and distance to background structures in pictures. Our Honey I Shrunk paper tries to address this bias with new data. 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026There's also a connection to @aaronhertzmann.com's great writings on perception of scale of distant objects in photographs and how it often doesn't match our perception when we observe a scene in real life. aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/h...aaronhertzmann.comHow Does Perspective Work in Pictures?Notes: portions of this blog post have been incorporated into a paper in Journal of Vision. I also have a new theory about perspective described here, although it doesn’t say much about the natural pe... 120
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is wonderful new work from Yuanbo Xiangli, Hanyu Chen, and Xueqing Tsang that utilizes new sources of metric depth data, like AerialMegaScenes and stereo video, for learning metric depth. metricscenes.github.iometricscenes.github.ioMetricScenes 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I semi-crashed the CV4Science workshop at CVPR and talked about why I like this problem and how rich it is, and plugged our paper called "Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!" 120
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I 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? 1153
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 05/06/2026It'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. 1160
Reposted by Noah SnavelyAditya Chetan @justachetan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Humans 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) 131
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 12/04/2026I love this sign! I'm guessing it was designed in MacWrite in 1993? 020
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Or, one could stop to consider that this is a really bad idea? 000
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 23/03/2026If 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...youtube.comNSF CISE Career Workshop - Noah Snavely (May 18, 2012)YouTube video by Connection One 061
Reposted by Noah SnavelyZhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026VarSplat: 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 021
Reposted by Noah SnavelyYoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 22/03/2026Very 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. 1142
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Interesting idea! The upside is that this would force some folks to come up with a set of creative pseudonyms and fake personae. Like "Virgil T. Vision-pants", etc. 130
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I did hear that ECCV has fewer submissions than the CVPRs of the world (though I don't have hard data on that). And it still seems like the AC interface is slower than my old Atari 8-bit BASIC programs. 000
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Does anyone have any tips for making OpenReview less agonizingly slow? 230
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Yes, very fun to get mocked on a 20 year old social network for comparing a 5 year old social network to a 40+ year old one! Reminds me of getting absolutely roasted on alt.tv.simpsons. 010
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The 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... 151
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026At 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? 040
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I should clarify that I have a lot of respect for punctuation freaks 🙂 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Interesting! I like that. I'm talking about more the classic textbook use of en dash, like 1977–81 or New York–London flight or whatever, where you'd have to be a real punctuation freak to use it in real life (but AI does it all the time). 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 14/03/2026An en dash seems to be a more reliable AI tell than an em dash. 220
Reposted by Noah SnavelyMor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This 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...jobs.chronicle.comChief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit. 12013
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Is this the link? It was cut off for me. nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026...nicholas.carlini.com How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research) An opinionated perspective on how to do important research that makes a difference (and sometimes win awards). 010
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Life: A User's Manual (Perec 1978) prefugured the "That's the cup of a carpenter" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 130
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026And the Pima Air and Space Museum is also great: maps.app.goo.gl/BdPS9H1Xn6w1...maps.app.goo.gl 020
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I also liked Karichimaka which is a bit closer: maps.app.goo.gl/b9wLhe7vhAAU...maps.app.goo.gl 110
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I really liked Amelia's restaurant when I last in Tucson, though it's a little far from the conference maps.app.goo.gl/3kGxza526ndg...maps.app.goo.gl 200
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I'm very curious about this place and will try to check it out next time I'm around: maps.app.goo.gl/cwNcxgPxyzjx...maps.app.goo.gl 100
Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Hiking, Mexican food, stargazing are all good activities. The Marriott Starr Pass is close to Saguaro National Park West, and lots of other great hiking. It's also close to the Desert Museum, which is really nice. 100
