Vahe Taamazyan

You won’t just be researching in a vacuum - you’ll be helping us define the future of our machine learning pipelines and seeing your work applied to real-world industrial robotics.

Apply using the link below: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

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We’re looking for someone with experience in:
- Model Distillation
- Quantization
- Deep Learning Optimization

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🚨I’m looking for a talented intern to join me at Intrinsic this summer!

Our team is focused on a hard problem: ensuring high-performance 3D perception models can run efficiently on constrained hardware to enable real-time robotic decision-making.
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There’s definitely a connection

Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it. @opencv.bsky.social @philnelson.bsky.social

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Check out the video in the first post of the thread to see one of the submissions in action.
The winning teams will be announced at the CVPR 2025 Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation Workshop.

Stay tuned!

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Some stats:
- 450+ teams registered
- Dozens of teams invested hundreds of hours
- Top 5 submissions were deployed on a real robot using Intrinsic Flowstate + ROS

We tried to pick parts based on participants' predicted poses - live!

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This is one of the toughest problems in computer vision, and it’s still far from “solved” - especially at the levels of accuracy and robustness required in real industrial settings.

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Participants were given multi-view, multi-modal images and tasked with training models that not only detect objects, but also predict their full 3D pose.
That means 3D position + rotation - exactly what a robot needs to grasp and manipulate objects accurately.

This has been one of the most exciting and demanding projects I’ve worked on.

Over the past 6 months, we teamed up with OpenCV, the BOP benchmark, and the CIRP Lab @uhmanoa.bsky.social to run a global challenge on 6DoF pose estimation for complex industrial parts. 🧵

Want to know if humanoid robots have finally become practical? See if more of them roll smoothly on wheels instead of stumbling around on legs. Until then, they’re stuck in demo mode - not deployment and scaling mode.

Gotta admit – I enjoy deleting code way more than writing it.

Ok, someone literally called their paper Foundation X: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09860

Having your own pattern is a nice flex, so I’m happy for Bowen actually! :D

I only know Bowen Wen’s Foundation Pose and Stereo papers that follow that pattern. What else is there?

CV/ML paper naming strategies:

- Answering yes to an obvious question? → “Do You Need X for Y?”
- New one-shot model? → “X Anything”
- Overhyping something trivial? → “All You Need Is X”

Important Updates: Bin-Picking Challenge Phase 1 Submissions Open & More! We’re excited to announce several key updates to the Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking aka the Bin-Picking Challenge (BPC)! Phase 1 Submissions Open On February 14th! Get ready to showcase your sol...

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Submissions are open,
We're waiting for you.

A few important updates regarding the Bin Picking Challenge:
opencv.org/blog/importa...

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🚀 Internship Opportunity! 🚀

Our small research team is looking for two talented interns to join us! If you're passionate about cutting-edge research at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, this is your chance to contribute to an exciting, high-impact project.

Prediction: There’ll be more people calling themselves software developers in 2–3 years than there are now.

I’m wondering how long it’ll take until people start memorizing openings for all 960 starting options

I made a bet with a friend on 1 Nvidia stock that in 5 years, I’ll be able to buy a robot that can cook pasta in my kitchen, straight from raw ingredients, with no special setup. Just in case, I’ve already bought the stock😆. What are my chances?

And in million years you’ll get the answer 42

Here is the challenge website: bpc.opencv.org

The Bin Picking Challenge is live! Detect the 6DoF poses of 10 challenging parts and compete for $60K in prizes. Some of them are quite challenging to detect accurately. The video shows a few of the parts in rotation - are you up for the challenge?

The Bin Picking Challenge is now open!

The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that Nvidia’s moat is larger in training than in inference. If training becomes much more efficient, demand saturation becomes a risk. But even this explanation feels somewhat weak.

I see people debating the Humanity’s Last Exam dataset. I actually contributed a problem to it. For the past 2 years, I’ve used a much simpler version of that problem to evaluate new LLMs—and they’ve all failed miserably. I can’t speak for other problems, but once an LLM solves mine, I’m retiring 🫡

Stay tuned for updates! Follow OpenCV’s official channels and my account for announcements, resources, and tips. Looking forward to seeing your innovative solutions! 5/5

Intrinsic Intrinsic is a software and AI robotics company at Alphabet. They’re building a platform for the next generation of intelligent automation.

Organized by OpenCV, with sponsorship from intrinsic.ai and Orbbec, plus support from BOP (bop.felk.cvut.cz) and the Computational Imaging and Robotic Perception Lab at University of Hawaii at Manoa. 4/5