David Picard

@davidpicard.eurosky.social

Professor of Computer Vision/Machine Learning at Imagine/LIGM, École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées @ecoledesponts.bsky.social Music & overall happiness 🌳🪻 Born well below 350ppm 😬 mostly silly personal views 📍Paris 🔗 https://davidpicard.github.io/

Meet Charlotte Pelletier, Assoc. Prof at Université Bretagne Sud 🇫🇷 & ELLIS Member. She researches AI, particularly in the scope of time series analysis with applications in remote sensing and Earth observation. Her advice for young scientists focuses on investing in a strong professional network.

Here is a thought on the NS event (it's still early, my brain may be missing caffeine): the part that failed is the humans, driven by ego and power, which led to a very unpleasant display of that face of humanity. The machines did fine. They even did extraordinary. [...]

#ECCV2026 workshop! 🌐 Spatial Intelligence: from Table-top to City-scale The 4th Perception Test Challenge 📅 9 Sep 2026 | 09:00 – 12:30 CEST 🎙 Keynotes by Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley), Laura Leal-Taixé (TUM), and Andrew Davison (Imperial). 🔗 Schedule: perception-test-challenge.github.io

The Fourth Perception Test Challenge at ECCV 2026

The 4th Perception Test Challenge at ECCV 2026 evaluates models on small scale and large scale spatial intelligence, with 20K EUR in prizes.

perception-test-challenge.github.io

The Navier-Stokes fight is a perfect encapsulation of where AI development is right now: this should be really cool and exciting, and instead because of Silicon Valley egos it's become a fight over cheating, surveillance, and companies trying to get one up over the other

Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d ago

OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.

CoralscapesV2 is out! Come see my oral at the #ECCV2026 workshop on marine vision! TL;DR: 1. CoralscapesV2 is better than V1 in every way (bigger, higher quality, more diverse, more classes) 2. 65k *exhaustive* fish instance annotations (painstaking is an understatement) 3. Better models on HF 🤗!