Evening reading. I’ve been looking forward to reading this paper. @chriswolfvision.bsky.social @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social
Kosta Derpanis
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#CS Associate Prof York University, #ComputerVision Researcher, VectorInst Faculty Affiliate, TPAMI AE, ELLIS4Europe Member, #ECCV2026 Publicity Chair 📍Toronto 🇨🇦 🔗 csprofkgd.github.io 🗓️ Joined Nov 2024
When I did my PhD, ICPR was this big conference and CVPR was a much smaller high-quality venue. The trends in sizes were clearly different.
Taking my talk on the road today. Visiting ETH Zürich, hosted by Siyu Tang 🤗
For years, I've heard from my fellow computer scientists that "the brain is a computer" or "we can simulate brains in a computer." I think both are wrong, and, now that we're hearing them from corporate tech leaders too, it's no longer just an academic topic. 🧵 aaronhertzmann.com/2026/07/13/b...
The Brain Is Not Just A Computer, and Cannot Be Simulated by One
Digital computers perform fixed logical operations on clock cycles; brains are biological systems of staggering complexity.
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Next stop: Zurich for the final leg of my sabbatical, through the end of July 🤗
The #ECCV2026 workshop page with links is now up! eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/...
2026 Workshops
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Introducing my new #DeepLearning course page 🤗 The page is now live and evolving over the coming weeks. Check it out: csprofkgd.github.io/deep-learnin... Feedback is welcome!
Next stop: home for the week ❤️ Then back to Zurich to wrap up the final stretch of my sabbatical.
#KostasThoughts: The #computervision community is behind on review transparency. Reviews and meta-reviews should be made public for accepted papers and, if authors opt in, for rejected papers as well. Transparency can be a powerful mechanism for improving review and meta-review quality. 1/2
The face of academic research in 2026: always GPU-constrained, and now token-constrained too. 🤦
#ECCV2026 decisions have been released! The final reviews and meta-reviews are not yet available on OpenReview; they will be released in the coming days.
#ECCV2026 decision notifications will be sent via email by June 17th anywhere on Earth.
Today was my last day at the Samsung AI Centre Toronto. It’s been an AWESOME 8-year run. I’ve learned a tremendous amount, worked with incredible people, and built lasting friendships along the way. 1/2
Inspired by @jbhuang0604.bsky.social's Awesome-Tips webpage and his encouragement, I put together a webpage collecting #KostasThoughts posts from over the years. Hope you find them useful! #KostasThoughts: csprofkgd.github.io/kostas-thoug...
#KostasThoughts
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Last few days to submit your artwork to @eccv.bsky.social 👀 Submissions deadline 14th June: eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/... With Ioannis Siglidis #ECCV2026 📷 from #ECCV2018 gallery @annaridler.bsky.social @philippschmitt.bsky.social Masaru Mizuochi #creativeAI #AIart
First full draft of my 🆕 lecture on (vanilla) policy gradients done 😅 TODO: Variance reduction methods (temporal structure and baselines).
Vanilla Policy Gradients
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Kosta Derpanis@csprofkgd.bsky.social · 2mo agoBack to the lecture prep grind. VERY early version of my lecture on Policy Gradients. With #computervision and #robotics research appearing to converge, at least based on #CVPR2026 and my European tour conversations, it feels like good timing 😉
The videos from the “Frontiers of Embodied AI” meetup at ETHZ from a few weeks back are now available. Speakers: Jitendra Malik, Vladlen Koltun, Yann LeCun, and Shuran Song Hosted by Marc Pollefeys YouTube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
When co-authors independently write different parts of a paper 😬
#KostasThoughts My lecture motto: Your eyeballs are mine. One idea at a time. The focus of the slide should always match the focus of the speech.
Kosta Derpanis@csprofkgd.bsky.social · 2mo agoBack to the lecture prep grind. VERY early version of my lecture on Policy Gradients. With #computervision and #robotics research appearing to converge, at least based on #CVPR2026 and my European tour conversations, it feels like good timing 😉