Vinicius Hirono

they're very LinkedIn-coded compared to your actual posts
it'd be fun to compare the engagement :)

a good test to see if you really learned a subject is when you start constantly spotting the dodgy stuff AI writes about it (at least in geometry processing and until they give it a cortex).

The 2nd Human-inspired Computer Vision (HiCV) Workshop will take place on Oct 20, 2025, in conjunction with @iccv.bsky.social!

✨ 25 contributions (oral & poster)

🎤 Keynotes: @vmurino.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, Massimiliano Mancini, Yen-Ling Kuo

📘 Special Issue on IJCV (Springer)

Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.

GitHub - dcoeurjo/GeometryProcessing-cmake-recipes: CPM / cmake recipes for geometry processing stuff CPM / cmake recipes for geometry processing stuff. Contribute to dcoeurjo/GeometryProcessing-cmake-recipes development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you need to quickly setup a C++ geometry processing project mixing existing libs (polyscope, eigen, DGtal, cgal, geometry-central, libigl, directional…). I’m sharing with you my cmake recipes

github.com/dcoeurjo/Geo...

Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable…

In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!

📜 New SIGGRAPH 2025 paper 🎉

❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial!

💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides posted: "Adaptive Voxel-Based Order-Independent Transparency" shipping in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by Michal Drobot from Activision Central Tech is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

MIT Consciousness Club The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience

Malleable Overview-Detail Interfaces | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

understestimated how slow downloading the PDFs would be 🙃 but spotted these:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (Nicolai Marquardt is ex UCL)
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Germany

Dango: A Mixed-Initiative Data Wrangling System using Large Language Model | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

I think ACM's CHI conference for Factors in Computing Systems might be a good place to look, though it's dominated by Americans. Trying to script something to find the brits in a sec.

dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

How are the user requirements recognized with what you have in mind?
purely through natural language, or also via demonstrations, corrections, simple constraints?

I'm technically in an affective computing lab and humanizing tools is one way you can ease understanding.

most facts just aren't that fun

how many fun facts does a year produce

Don’t worry, everyone’s in the ai mines

This is much better than looking for the east building

Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.

But...

🧠📈 🧪

I see more examples of overselling LLM's because that makes for a more interesting story than underselling them.

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (mostly cortex)
Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks
#neuroskyence

Not my David Cage melodramas!!!!
How dare they

Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.

Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Numerosity coding in the brain: from early visual processing to abstract representations Abstract. Numerosity estimation refers to the ability to perceive and estimate quantities without explicit counting, a skill crucial for both human and ani

Numerosity coding in the brain: from early visual processing to abstract representations
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
#neuroscience

But I bet building the crab bucket was 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭

[image description: Sierra gaming magazine cover where a woman sits in an armchair, Roberta Williams, besides headlines : Roberta Williams, the storyteller who started it all; A preview of Sierra's newest games; Prodigy, available free with specially marked Sierra games]

Today we thank Roberta Williams for licencing F.E.A.R for a Brazilian gaming magazine that sold the game's CD for less than pennies and making a lot of broke kids happy.

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions.

Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy

arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

1: "Hitler drank the blood of babies to keep eternal youth"

2: "I don't think we have any proof of that"

1: "Why are you defending Hitler? You just want to be a contrarian"

I keep seeing this discourse pattern.

One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

The latest from our star Boeing reporter Maureen Tkacik: turns out a whistleblower said it would take 10-12 years for 787s to start failing. The one that crashed into an Indian hospital today was built in 2014. prospect.org/economy/2025...

:(
I hope Israelis and Iranians stay as safe as possible during this retaliation.

Anything others can do?

Do you know about or guess any intel Netanyahu has we don't?
oof