Bhalaji

Successfully defended my Doctoral Thesis from @MatesInfoUB @UniBarcelona with "cum laude" distinction on May 27!! Huge thanks to my supervisor @radevap and co-supervisor Eduardo for their wonderful support!! Thanks to all the wonderful souls who helped me throughout this journey!

🍽️The kitchen is heating up! ⏳Dishcovery Challenge: Mission II @CVPR 2026 (3rd MetaFood Workshop) is entering its final stretch. If you haven’t participated yet, now is the time!!! #MetaFood #CVPR2026 #VLM #MultimodalAI #AIChallenge #Kaggle

📢Got a @CVPR 2026 accepted paper on food understanding, embodied perception, physics-aware modeling, or multimodal AI? Submit to the 3rd MetaFood Workshop - no reformatting required! 📝Submission: openreview.net/group?id=thecv… 📅Submission deadline: May 1, 2026

🚀Less than a month left for the Dishcovery Mission II Challenge @CVPR 2026 [MetaFood Workshop] If you're working on CLIP, SigLIP, or VLMs, this is a great benchmark!!! Join here: kaggle.com/competitions/d… #VLM #MultimodalAI #CVPR2026 #AIChallenge #FoodAI

🍽️Mission to @CVPR 2026 continues!!! 🚀Dishcovery II VLM Challenge (3rd MetaFood Workshop) is LIVE - Join now to push your models on real-world food understanding 👉kaggle.com/competitions/d… The Kitchen is heating up!! #MetaFood #CVPR2026 #VLM #MultimodalAI #AIChallenge #Kaggle

🗓️Last few days left for paper submissions at the Third MetaFood Workshop @CVPR 2026 ! ‼️Openreview Registration: Mar. 13, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE) 📄Paper Submission: Mar. 15, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE) Details: sites.google.com/view/cvpr-meta… #CV #FoodAI #VLM #MultimodalAI #CFP #DL #EmbodiedAI

🚨Deadline Extended - 3rd MetaFood Workshop @CVPR 2026 has new submission deadlines!! 📄Paper deadline: Mar 15 (11:59pm AoE) 🏆Best Paper → FREE CVPR registration (thanks Prof. @dimadamen) Details: sites.google.com/view/cvpr-meta… #CV #FoodAI #VLM #MultimodalAI #CFP #DL #EmbodiedAI

Here's how my recent papers & reviews are going: * To solve a vision problem today, the sensible thing is to leverage a pre-trained VLM or video diffusion model. Such models implicitly represent a tremendous amount about the visual world that we can exploit. * Figure out how to make the implicit knowledge of the large model explicit. This is where the creativity comes in. * The reviewers say "No technical novelty. You just used a transformer." * Nobody is surprised by anything anymore. If I get a large model to solve a long-standing problem in vision, the reviewer just shrugs. * I think this is "Twitter fatigue". The daily deluge of results has trained us that "everything is now possible" so nothing is now surprising. * Good scientific results are surprising. What happens to science when nothing surprises us?

🎉MetaFood Workshop is BACK @CVPR2026 (3rd edition)!! sites.google.com/view/cvpr-meta… With CFP deadline approaching, exciting challenges are on the way 🍽️ 🚀The Dishcovery VLM Challenge is already LIVE - Don’t miss it!! kaggle.com/competitions/d… See you in Denver!! #MetaFood #CVPR2026

🚨[Deadline Extended] 3rd MetaFood Workshop @CVPR 2026 (#MTF2026) at #CVPR2026. 👉We’ve extended CFP deadlines for both full papers and extended abstracts!! 📄Paper Submission (including Supplement): March 11, 2026 (11:59 PM AOE) 🔗Details: sites.google.com/view/cvpr-meta…

@humphrey_shi @CVPR @nbhv1n @JDihlmann @chen940382 Thanks a lot @humphrey_shi. A related question: If the final decision of "Suggested to findings workshop: Yes" in OpenReview means the paper goes to findings when the authors opt-in or will there be another decision process by PC/AC? Thanks for the huge efforts🫡

We’re actively finalizing the opt-in flow with CVPR + OpenReview. Because it depends on a few external processes, we can’t commit to an exact date yet (incl. whether it’ll be before the ECCV deadline), but the track is moving forward and we’ll share official guidelines as soon as the steps are locked.

Decisions for @CVPR 2026 are out—congratulations to all authors. I’m excited to share a community step forward: the new CVPR Findings Track. Area Chairs recommended 1717 papers for potential inclusion, creating a principled pathway to recognize and share valuable work that may not be the best fit for the main program—while still enabling authors to publish and present through integrated Findings poster sessions. As our field scales, we need not only better models—but better community infrastructure. This effort is led collectively by the Findings organizing team—Bryan Plummer, Kevin Shih, @anand_bhattad, @jccaicedo, @Grigoris_c, @BoqingGo, @liuziwei7, and me. Huge thanks to the CVPR General Chairs, Program Chairs, and especially the Area Chairs for supporting this step forward. Looking forward to seeing many of you at CVPR 2026—across the main program, Findings, and workshops.

@CVPR @nbhv1n @humphrey_shi @JDihlmann @chen940382 Dear organizers, When do we get to know more about the "findings" track guidelines? Having it before the ECCV deadlines would help a lot.... Excited about this great step from the CV community 🤝🤝

@nbhv1n @humphrey_shi @JDihlmann @chen940382 The opt-in flow and logistics is being finalised and instructions will be go to authors soon (please see thread above).

Thanks to the 345 attendees to the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2025, on behalf of the organising commitee.

#DLBCN Today is Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium Day. Event starts at 9:30am, and will be live streamed. Virtual posters are available: sites.google.com/view/dlbcn2025/

Save the date & plan your Christmas travels: The 2025 Deep Learning Symposium will be on Wednesday 17 December at the Cosmocaixa Barcelona. Submission deadline on October 17: sites.google.com/view/dlbcn2025… #DLBCN @CosmoCaixa_CAT

Tienes muchas dudas sobre la Inteligencia artificial? Daremos un curso divulgativo sobre IA (il3.ub.edu/juliols/desmit…) en Julio en la Universidad de Barcelona. Comentaremos qué está detrás de los algoritmos de IA, Deep learning, La Inteligenica generativa (Deepfakes) e IA ética.

Tienes muchas dudas sobre la Inteligencia artificial? Daremos un curso divulgativo sobre IA (il3.ub.edu/juliols/desmit…) en Julio en la Universidad de Barcelona. Comentaremos qué está detrás de los algoritmos de IA, Deep learning, La Inteligenica generativa (Deepfakes) e IA ética.

An awesome day to kick start our @CVPR knowledge quest... If you are around, join us at the Metafood Workshop in A108... We have an awesome list of activities lined up 🎙️🎙️

🫠 Between deadlines, rebuttals & existential crises??? "We got you!!!" 📢 Our @CVPR MetaFood 2025 Multi-Modal Challenge is now LIVE!!! 🍽️ Dishcovery: VLM MetaFood Challenge 🍽️ 🧰 Task: Match fine-grained food images to detailed descriptions. 🔗 Join us: kaggle.com/competitions/d…