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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 22h

We are recruiting an ELLIS PhD student (100% E13) at FAU Germany for a joint ANR-DFG project with Sarah Matta and Tinashe Mutsvangwa from IMT Atlantique. Apply via the ELLIS PhD program: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Image generated by Gemini (1/3)

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Super. So muss das. Strom statt Marmor

Foto eines 9-stöckiges Hauses mit Photovoltaik an der Fassade

Detail: fassade. DC-Kabel kommen hinter den Modulen raus

Fassade und Balkon. Auch die Balkonbrüstung ist mit Modulen. Zwischen den Solarzellen kommt Licht durch

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Maximilian Weiherer @maxweiherer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Introducing Vecchia Kernel Surface Reconstruction (VKSR), an implicit surface reconstruction method that efficiently scales kernel surface reconstruction to dense and large-scale point clouds with millions of points. I'm presenting VKSR at #ECCV2026 in Malmö now at poster #190!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I'm looking for a postdoc" "3D Computer Vision" 🎤🫳 #ECCV2026 And yes, I really am looking for a postdoc @csprofkgd.bsky.social please spread the world

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In der Gemarkung Kriegenbrunn werden bald Windenergieanlagen gebaut. Ich freu mich schon drauf. Aber wie kann man das visionalisieren? Mit @visionbernie.bsky.social habe ich das gemacht youtu.be/x2ecxINiU_A Wärmepumpenstrom fürs Gemeindehaus #Denkmal1860

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Simulation des Windparks Römerreuth

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@michael-j-black.bsky.social “What is the role of academic computer vision research in the age of increasingly powerful large models? …” #ECCV2026 🇸🇪

What is the role of academic computer vision research in the age of increasingly powerful large models? Is GPT-6 Astra a step change? How can a researcher have an impact today in academia?

These are the questions I ask myself as I head off to ECCV 2026, a conference I’ve attended since 1992. One of my papers this year is VIGA, a method that takes an image as input and outputs a 3D Blender scene that represents that image. This is a classical inverse-graphics task and VIGA was the first method to solve it using an agentic approach.

The idea is now several years old and the first version of the paper was rejected. This delayed publication significantly. After it was accepted at ECCV, it was quickly surpassed by people using Claude Code for the same purpose. Today GPT-6 Astra blows away all previous results. But we still head off to ECCV to tell the community about our invention that is now fully out of date.

The way academic work often progresses is that one reads recent papers, notices that they have limitations, comes up with a new idea, explores this, publishes it, etc. Any published paper I read today is based on ideas that are at least a year old. And those ideas were based on the literature of the time, which was also a year old. That means that any paper I see at ECCV is likely two years out of date. In AI today, two years means your work is likely irrelevant.

At CVPR this summer I noticed that many authors have not gotten the message. They continue to work on “old” problems that have a long history. This history is based on assumptions about how the “vision problem” will be “solved”. The truth is that it is being solved in a very different way and many of these problems are no longer relevant. Another group of papers focuses on very niche problems where large models likely fail because of insufficient data or lack of business interest. The impactful papers were largely from industry and had long author lists and massive data+compute behind them. These papers were also out of data, describing systems that had been released months before, but at least they served to provide the community with more complete documentation and analysis of commercial systems.

So what should academics do? First, we need to put aside the tools we’ve used for years and start from scratch. Every project should start by trying really hard to solve the problem with existing tools. I would like to see every paper begin with a detailed experimental analysis of how existing models perform and why they fail (if they do). This gives the kind of insight we need today. Then, assuming current models fail, the solution should provide some fundamental insight that will outlive the next release of such models.

Reviewers today still focus on technical novelty. This pushes people to focus on tweaking architectures rather than clearly moving the field forward. Papers need to be judged based on their novel insight and not their novel technical contribution. This is a real shift in thinking but it focuses us on what matters - progress of the field.

If we want there to be a “field” of computer vision, then it can’t become a marginal backwater, focusing on esoteric problems. If you haven’t tried using Astra (or whatever comes next) to solve your problem, then you have not done your homework. This omission should be seen as negatively as not having a previous work section.

Concretely, I think papers should include a new section analogous to “Related Work” where that related work is current models and how they perform on the task. Reviewers should start asking for this and expecting authors to be able to articulate their insights about the limitations of existing large models.

I'm interested in your thoughts

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet me at #ECCV2026 today at 3pm I'll present the paper "AI-Experiment: an augmented reality art project co-created with artificial intelligence" at the #AI4VA Paper & Code: github.com/BernhardEgge... One of my favorite parts is, that paper & poster can be experienced in augmented reality!

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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FAU family — this one is for us. Q.ANT is a finalist for The Spark 2026. Its processors use light for demanding AI and high-performance computing tasks. That can cut energy use. If you want to support Deep Tech from our ecosystem, please vote for Q.ANT. cmk.handelsblatt.com/cms/articles...

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This time next week, I’ll be at #ECCV2026 in Malmö 🇸🇪 Don’t be shy, say hi! 👋 I’m also recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027. Interested in joining my group, or just want to chat about the grad school landscape in Canada? Let’s talk!

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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our ECCV Art Gallery is now online 🥳 Check out the 52 accepted works, 12 spotlights and plan your schedule for the onsite gallery, tours and panels at #ECCV2026 next week eccv-art-26.github.io Curated with Ioannis Siglidis for @eccv.bsky.social #creativeAI #ECCVArt

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Deutschland braucht vor allem mehr Umsetzung bei den bereits vorhandenen Innovationen. Erneuerbare Energien statt veralteter fossiler Technologie. Meine Idee ist innovativ: Mitarbeitende montieren PV aufs Dach. Team-projekte. @hornegger.bsky.social @visionbernie.bsky.social @fau-go.bsky.social

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Deblina @deblinaml.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Submission deadline approaching: 27th July (11:59 PM AoE). Submit your work to the 4th AI4VA workshop @eccv.bsky.social. You can also submit your #ECCV2026 main conference paper (as is) for presentation at AI4VA. Key topic details: ai4va-eccv.github.io

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AI4VA @ ECCV 2026 | The 4th AI for Visual Arts Workshop

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Happy to announce the 3rd iteration of NEAT (Neuro-AI-Talks), which will take place in Osnabrück September 14th-15th 2026. NEAT is a (deliberately small scale) NeuroAI workshop that brings together researchers from neuroscience and AI. www.kietzmannlab.org/neat2026/ More information below 👇

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NEAT 2026

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

BREAKING! Erlangen ist 2024 in eine Haushaltskrise gerutscht, weil eine Siemens Firma Steuern spart. Heute hat Siemens CEO Busch sich entschuldigt und als Sofortmassnahme 30 Mio€ an den Kämmerer überwiesen. Einzige Bedingung: Erlangen fördert wieder Klimaschutz. Dank an den Physik-Kollegen

Screenshot von der Beschreibung von Roland Busch von Wikipedia. Man sieht ein Foto und die Aussage, dass Busch bis 1989 in Erlangen Physik studierte

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Will Smith @willsmithvision.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The entire system is implemented as a CLAUDE.md file. Zero lines of executable code. Joint work with @visionbernie.bsky.social. Paper: www-users.york.ac.uk/~waps101/sig...

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SIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We organizers are both ecstatic and terrified for our inevitable automatization!

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Gemeinsam mit @visionbernie.bsky.social starte ich eine Petition und brauche eure Hilfe: Wir müssen π verbieten, am besten noch heute! π ist gefährlich, illegal und wir müssen die Nutzung von π sofort verbieten. Teilt diese Petition, damit π endlich eliminiert werden kann #pillegal #jetztOderPi 1/n

Schatzkarte zum Post. Man sieht das Banner: Ziel: Pi verbannt und viele Inhalte aus dem thread

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Together with @mhundhausen.bsky.social, I am launching a petition and I need your help: We must ban π, preferably today! π is dangerous, illegal, and we must ban the use of π immediately. Share this petition such that π can finally be eliminated #pillegal #nowOrPi 1/n

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my last paper! It is over #SIGBOVIK eggerbernhard.ch/EggerFlashBo...

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

HUGE thank you to @yukimasano.bsky.social for hosting me in Nürnberg and Amsterdam, @visionbernie.bsky.social in Erlangen, and @dimadamen.bsky.social in Bristol! Trip of a lifetime. 1/2

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Außerdem will ich Mitarbeitende der @fau.de auf das Windenergie-Projekt aufmerksam machen. Es wird ein Windpark in Erlangen gebaut. Und an diesem Windpark können sich Bürger*innen beteiligen. Z.B. als Kommanditisten. Wer macht mit? Lieber @hornegger.bsky.social - das wäre zwar privates Engagement

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Bürgerbeteiligung am Windpark Römerreuth: Interesse jetzt online angeben - Windpark Römerreuth

Symbolbild Ab sofort können Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus der Region online unverbindlich angeben, ob und wie sie sich finanziell am Windpark Römerreuth beteiligen möchten. Geplant sind zwei Modelle: ein...

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

To ensure compliance w peer-review policies, ICML has removed 795 reviews (1% of total) by reviewers who used LLMs when they explicitly agreed to not. Consequently, 497 papers (2% of all submissions) of these (reciprocal) reviewers have been desk rejected Details in blog post 👇

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Spending the day in Erlangen 🤗

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We will have @csprofkgd.bsky.social presenting on Friday 13th at noon in lecture hall 13 at @fau.de "In Search of Universal Concepts" Very much looking forward to this visit!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Very excited to have @csprofkgd.bsky.social at @fau.de this Friday - waiting for room confirmation, but talk will happen at noon And you thought Friday 13th is a bad day?

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Quick pitstop in Erlangen. Plan to come back later this coming week for a proper visit at FAU hosted, hosted by @visionbernie.bsky.social

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Very proud of Paul who got his master thesis at @fau.de accepted at @cvprconference.bsky.social - the most impactful conference! Joint supervision with @andreead-a.bsky.social , @jadgardner.bsky.social and @willsmithvision.bsky.social

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I've got a new #visionscience video for you! Today I'm showing off how to see the hidden object in Magic Eye stereograms without worrying about getting your eyes lined up the right way. If you're interested in reading why this works... <1/2>

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How to Hack a Magic Eye Stereogram!

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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Today, I appointed Prof. Dr. Gözde Gül Sahin (Koç University, Türkiye) as Professor of Intelligent Language Systems. She works on NLP & LLMs for the hardest settings: rare and unseen tasks, languages, and domains with little data—building datasets, models, and benchmarks. Welcome to FAU, Gözde.

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

dAIper-Hack A hackathon to turn ideas into impact - hands-on innovation event jointly organized by @fau.de and P&G - three days - modern and classical Computer Vision and AI approaches - at the Scientific Center for AI and SuperTech Apply now! daiper.tf.fau.eu (latest by February 6th)

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Morgen bauen wir wieder Solar auf unsere Uni! Bist Du dabei? Danke an die von Euch, die dafür gespendet haben. Wie machen die Energie der @fau.de ein bisschen sauberer. Danke an @hornegger.bsky.social, der vor 3 Jahren mitgeholfen hat

Foto von mhundhausen und Joachim Hornegger auf einem Uni-Dach mit Solar im Hintergrund

Ich stehe vor einer Fassadensolaranlage, die vor 15 Jahren gebaut wurde.

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Heute ist ein schöner Artikel zu unserer AR-Erweiterung in den Erlanger Nachrichten. Vielen Dank an Robin Pfeiffer für die akribische Recherche! Zum diesen Link hier auf eurem Mobiltelefon öffnen und damit die Bilder in der Cauerstrasse 11 in Erlangen "scannen" eggerbernhard.ch/AIARt/

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Wir sind dabei bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften Im Kinderprogramm dürft ihr ein, gemeinsam mit PsychologInnen entwickeltes, Spiel erleben nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/die-mac... Abends präsentieren wir die Augmented Reality Erweiterung unseres KI-Experimentes. Animierte Kunst! (1/2)

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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Come and say Hi at the #LangeNachtderWissenschaften! The @dhssfau.bsky.social hosts a science talk on topics in the #digitalhumanities: nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/science... I will be talking about "AI meets Art" with @visionbernie.bsky.social: nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/ki-trif...

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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I am recruiting PhD students for 2026!😃 You want to reveal the geometric signatures of natural and artificial intelligence, and understand computations in brains and AI? 🌐🧠🤖 Apply to the UCSB Geometric Intelligence Lab ✨ This is the view you'd have from... your desk🌴

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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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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In Erlangen ist ein Windpark geplant. In der Zeitung wurde berichtet und eine Photomontage gezeigt, wo die nächste Anlage bei einem Abstand von 800m unrealistische 224m Nabenhöhe hätte. Die Photomontage passt so nicht. Mit @visionbernie.bsky.social habe ich das analysiert. Schaut unser Video:

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Simulation des Windparks Römerreuth

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Lukas Meyer @meyels.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚀 Excited to share that our paper "Towards Integrating Multi-Spectral Imaging with Gaussian Splatting" was accepted at VMV 2025! 🎉 🔗 Project: meyerls.github.io/towards_mult... 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00989 💻 Code: github.com/j-gruen/MS-S... #VMV25 #GaussianSplatting #NeRF #Multispectral

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Bei der Windenergie tut sich etwas in Erlangen. Ein Windpark mit 8 Windenergieanlagen ist geplant und drei WEA sollen auf Erlanger Gebiet liegen. Wie sieht es mit Bürger*innenbeteiligung aus und wie wird der Windpark aussehen. @visionbernie.bsky.social hilft. Wir machen wieder ein Video zusammen

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

You did publish this year at @cvprconference.bsky.social @eccv.bsky.social @acmsiggraph.bsky.social ‪@ieeevis.bsky.social or a similar? VMV in Erlangen offers a nectar track where we invite you to present your already published work in a nectar track 🗓️ Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2025

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Congratulations, to Saleeta Qadir for winning the worldwide best illusion of the year contest - very proud of her! Saleeta is just finishing her masters in AI @fau.de and is looking for exciting roles or research opportunities -hire her (or provide me with funding to do it myself)!

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Today is your last chance to vote: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The illusion of the year contest in the New York Times!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/s.... Vote now: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

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How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions

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Martin Hundhausen @mhundhausen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Ist zwar ne story vom 1. April..... Aber dennoch finde ich das passend, denn mit fake stories hat man es heutzutage ja täglich zu tun... Super Kooperation mit @visionbernie.bsky.social youtu.be/97Sali0fPSE

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Ist die Erde wirklich rund?

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We proudly present the static spin illusion - a finalist of the Best Illusion of The Year Contest. You perceive a rotation? There is none! Saleeta Qadir student at @fau.de built this illusion using computer vision and image processing - please vote for her: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Great new world! The Bergkirchweih in Erlangen starts on Thursday June 6th... Except there is no Thursday June 6th this year

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