Boqing Gong
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Our 1.5-yr-old lab at Boston U has got its very first tradition: Celebrating paper submissions rather than paper acceptance! Here is the cake for eccv submissions. Yum :-)
@Saksham_Kapoor5 @Jasperstoj1 SAM 2 & 3 are very cool. I wish I could claim credit for any of it, but I can't. My contribution to it has been minimal and very indirect, beside moral support. The Perception team that produces SAM was actually moved from FAIR to the product division of MSL several months ago.
If you have a fond memory or a note that you'd like to share about Margrit Betke, please add it to this document before 9/20: lnkd.in/gmbbHYzF We wish to share it in some form with her family during her memorial on Sept 20th!
Margrit Betke, a @BU_CAS professor of computer science, is being remembered as a brilliant BU scholar and a devoted mentor by colleagues and current and former students. She passed away on August 13. Read more ➡️ spr.ly/6019fIsSN
World Simulator, reimagined — now alive with humans, robots, and their vibrant society unfolding in 3D real-world geospatial scenes across the globe! 🚀 One day soon, humans and robots will co-exist in the same world. To prepare, we must address: 1️⃣ How can robots cooperate or compete intelligently? 2️⃣ How do humans build social bonds and communities? 3️⃣ How can both co-exist in an open, dynamic world? Announcing Virtual Community Project — a social-physical world simulator, where human characters and robotic agents can interact, grow, and co-evolve within open-world societies, stretching from London to New York, and beyond! Key features include: ✅ Unified multi-agent physics simulations for rich social + physical interactions of humans and robots ✅ Massive auto-generated 3D scenes grounded with the rea-world geospatial data ✅ Agent communities populated by robots and LLM-driven human characters with rich appearances, personalities, and social ties. 🌍 Enter our Virtual Community, an open world to study embodied AI at scale— one social-physical world model at a time! 🔗 Project: virtual-community-ai.github.io 💻 Code: github.com/UMass-Embodied… Paper: virtual-community-ai.github.io/paper.pdf 1/n
Introducing VideoPrism, a single model for general-purpose video understanding that can handle a wide range of tasks, including classification, localization, retrieval, captioning and question answering. Learn how it works at goo.gle/49ltEXW
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/20…
