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Apratim Bhattacharyya @apratimbh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📅 Join us next week for the 2nd VAR Workshop at CVPR 2026: June 3rd, 2026 from 8:30am to 1pm. 🎯 We are hosting an exciting line-line of speakers: Katerina Fragkiadaki, Wenhu Chen, Michael S. Ryoo, Ziwei Liu, Yao Qin, @vicenteor.bsky.social 👉Schedule/Papers: varworkshop.github.io/schedule/

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Someone here needs to hear this today. Remember to rotate your tires and do alignment once in a while.

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#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

⏰The ICCV 2025 discussion phase will close soon! ⏰ As a reviewer, it's your job to: -📖 Read author rebuttals -🗣️ Engage in discussions -✅ Submit your final rating & justification Your responsible engagement is critical for a fair review process! Deadline: May 27!

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My solidarity to Harvard colleagues and my respect for maintaining dignity during troubled times. Their leadership makes their standing in the global stage well deserved.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Cappuccino served at the 50th year celebration of the School of Engineering and Computing at Rice.

An owl which is the mascot of Rice is formed on the foam of a cappuccino

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Group picture with my PhD students #studio-ghibli

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Adding here an example of what I was going for: entrepreneurs4nsf.formstack.com/forms/petiti...

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Entrepreneurs 4 NSF - Formstack

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Adding here an example of what I was going for: entrepreneurs4nsf.formstack.com/forms/petiti...

entrepreneurs4nsf.formstack.com

Entrepreneurs 4 NSF - Formstack

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I wish more authors of papers I have missed citing would email me. At the same time I have only done this sparely and mostly with people I already know first hand or had some kind of interaction in the past and in no case I believe this was deliberate. It is just hard to keep up sometimes.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thanks CVPR for bringing the conversation here

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I remember when Twitter was this small and familiar. I had/have some followers on Twitter that now are low key celebrities but probably followed me long way back before they became low key celebrities.

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#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

By popular demand, we are extending #CVPR2025 coverage to Bluesky. Stay tuned!

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

But if it does happen in the open, my hope is that it’s a concerted effort that includes academics as much as a larger coalition of people who agrees this issue is important.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There should be pushback publicly but it should not be only self serving. If people only express concerns when it directly affects them that’s a sad state of things.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Indeed I don’t feel that way. I think there should be pushback but I also think the general public should be as concerned. Complaining and pushing back will happen but maybe not in the open.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

That said there's no reason to not continue using our institutional channels to continue championing science and education.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One thing we can do going forward is to work so that the general community gets convinced why funding science and having strong research institutions is a good thing. This time we might have to learn from our mistakes.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There are so many more things to be outraged about at the moment than complaining about federal funding for science. Especially when coming from academics, it is a bit too self-serving at this moment. Yes it is bad and the effects will be long lasting but so will be a dozen other things.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Great times for innovation ahead!

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

These are models that can perfectly be run on most cheap hardware unlike the full large R1. But I wouldn’t be surprised we will see R1 quality running on more accessible hardware.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Everyone concentrates on o1 and R1 but even the base 7B or 1.5B models seem better than the very first public version of ChatGPT (3.5-turbo) that took the world by surprise.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I think it’s exciting to see LLMs that are open source and on par with the top models accesible only through APIs. DeepSeek and before that Llama-3.

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Moayed Haji ALi @moayedha.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Can pretrained diffusion models be connected for cross-modal generation? 📢 Introducing AV-Link ♾️ Bridging unimodal diffusion models in one self-contained framework to enable: 📽️ ➡️ 🔊 Video-to-Audio generation. 🔊 ➡️ 📽️ Audio-to-Video generation. 🌐: snap-research.github.io/AVLink/ ⤵️ Results

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Check this recent work by my PhD student Moayed. He has been doing amazing work on Generative AI for images, video and audio. We introduce AV-Link ♾️, an unified approach for audio-video generation. Our generated audio is the best in terms of synchronization with video actions. Check thread below.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I still don’t feel quite more productive in the era of LLMs. There are very few things I can do better but far from what I hear from anecdotes. I wonder what would be the one low hanging fruit I should be delegating to LLMs.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I remember watching this video circa 2009-2010.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

End of year celebration with the great Moshe Vardi @myvardi.bsky.social is one of the perks of Rice. Hopefully he will be active on Bluesky soon.

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Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Job alert! 🚨 (a bit special but anyway) If you are (or know someone who is) a Phd about to graduate or just graduated, and have to skip some in between time, I currently have a PostDoc position that could run for 6 months. Needed: Experience with publishing at Top A conferences. Just ping me. 👍

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Had a great time this week visiting the University of Pittsburgh. I had not been to Pittsburgh in 10 years. I hope to be back sooner next time.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

No meetings right before and after the talk? This has to be on zoom :)

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In this case, there’s transparency, people can see the emails being sent. They still choose to engage. That one is harder to explain.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It reminds me of the irrational but also all too common collective behavior that arises when someone sends an email to a big list of email addresses and everyone starts asking to be removed from the mailing list.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Then everyone is assumed to be part of the same collective regardless of intentions. Valid points are lost in a sea of messages. Hard to find a fix for this.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Looks like a fresh start in a new platform does not correct pile on behavior. It is hard to even notice when this is happening especially on one end. We see our own comments but we can’t see the other hundred comments saying the same thing in less polite language.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

But yes in practice, it might very well be the case that most of the times this is just shorthand for I do not like the work, or it didn't catch my interest me enough.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My post was mostly a call for more transparency when the judgement is a subjective judgement, instead of making it sound like an objective judgement is being made.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A claim of "no novelty" should definitely be backed up by references. However insufficient novelty or limited novelty acknowledges novelty in the work yet places a subjective judgement of insufficiency. It is difficult to validate or invalidate when it is a subjective judgement, references or not.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I understand that and agree. Makes it no less frustrating. I just wished reviewers were more upfront about this being their subjective opinion rather than declaring that the required bar has not been met as if there was a clear line that divides what is sufficient and what is not.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I know there will be other most egregious examples of reviews but I believe this is not in the fringes.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is not saying that there’s no novelty, in fact I have experienced a version of this where novelty is in fact acknowledged but still does not reach the required bar.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Lots of people talking about ICLR reviews. For me the most frustrating these days is when a reviewer declares that a paper has not reached the required bar for acceptance or novelty. As if this was an objective commonly agreed tenant that everyone knows.

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The closest I will be to getting an Emmy :)

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Vicente Ordonez @vicenteor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Congrats to Jairo Gallego and team and I am glad to have participated along with Rice students, especially for a Spanish speaking audience in the US.

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