Frank Dellaert
@fdellaert.bsky.social
Robotics/Perception Prof at Georgia Tech; Chief AI Officer at Verdant Robotics. Stints at Skydio, B*8, Reality Labs, Google Research. https://dellaert.github.io
Proud to have contributed a tiny part to this cool paper.
Zhenjun Zhao@ericzzj.bsky.social · 2mo agoScaRF-SLAM: Scale-Consistent Reconstruction with Feed-Forward Models and Classical Visual SLAM Yuhao Zhang, @taoyifu.bsky.social, @fdellaert.bsky.social, @mauricefallon.bsky.social tl;dr: LightGlue; GTSAM; DA3 arxiv.org/abs/2606.00307
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
I know this look well. It’s the same one I get when I introduce the Fourier transform in my computer vision course to the CS crowd.
Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.
Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More
Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.
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MASt3R-SLAM code release! github.com/rmurai0610/M... Try it out on videos or with a live camera Work with @ericdexheimer.bsky.social*, @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Riku Murai@rmurai0610.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing MASt3R-SLAM, the first real-time monocular dense SLAM with MASt3R as a foundation. Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map. With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
CRA statement about NSF firings cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
Cuts to NSF and CISE Directorate Jeopardize American Leadership in Computing
A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…
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Some personal news: as of January I am back full-time at Georgia Tech following a 2-year leave as Verdant Robotics’ CTO. I will continue to be involved with Verdant as part-time Chief AI Officer, thinking strategically about the role of AI in Robotics for Ag.
The visual system of a jumping spider is fascinating. Look at those cones behind the fixed main lenses! The retinas are at the end of the cones. youtu.be/gvN_ex95IcE?...
Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador
YouTube video by wmaddisn
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We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)
First iRIM@GT seminar of 2025: Ani Majumdar! Well attended!
Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.
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3D feed-forward Gaussian Splatting feels like magic, let alone 4D!
Jim RB@jbohnslav.bsky.social · 2y agoSTORM: Nvidia paper to directly regress 3D Gaussians + velocities from AV sensor data. Instead of fitting 3D Gaussians to a scene (~30 mins), reconstructs in one forward pass (~200ms).
100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell. There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Awesome stuff!
Riku Murai@rmurai0610.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing MASt3R-SLAM, the first real-time monocular dense SLAM with MASt3R as a foundation. Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map. With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Convolutional Differentiable Logic Gate Networks @FHKPetersen
Today I used ChatGPT canvas to help me simplify the SE_2(3) exponential map calculation, and its Jacobian. 4o looks dumb in comparison to o1 now, though :-(
Introducing 👀Stereo4D👀 A method for mining 4D from internet stereo videos. It enables large-scale, high-quality, dynamic, *metric* 3D reconstructions, with camera poses and long-term 3D motion trajectories. We used Stereo4D to make a dataset of over 100k real-world 4D scenes.
Back in college I took a developmental biology class. This field has come so far with advancing technologies like light sheet microscopy. This video is just plain amazing.
Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪@loicaroyer.bsky.social · 2y agoThe birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...
