Andrei Bursuc

At #CVPR2026, 16,092 submissions underwent the review process (this number excludes papers withdrawn or desk-rejected during the review process). The program committee recommended 4,090 papers for acceptance, resulting in an acceptance rate of 25.42%.

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Christian, every time I mention android vs ios recently 🙃

Researcher morale after three rejections in a row

Same here. My previous Android phone was tagging such numbers as potential spams and it was easy to just reject. No such service on iOS (at least not for free).
I don’t answer calls from unknown numbers anymore: if they really need me they call again or leave a voicemail.

Energized and inspired after our annual meetup to brainstorm on new exciting ideas and plan the projects ahead of us this year!
As always this is an excellent occasion to fit (almost) the entire team in a single photo

This year I'm teaching a new course on generative models for visual content (images, video, 3D, etc). It's mostly me rambling about recent papers, design choices I like/hate. The slides of the first lectures are here: davidpicard.github.io/teaching/
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Yeah! I discovered lichess just recently as I was looking for some solutions for learning and practice with my 11yo.

All the "you need to learn AI skills or you'll get left behind" things are patently nonsense. It's easy to use and only becomes easier to use over time. If there's skill it's in knowing what it does well and what is does poorly

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You caught me! Actually most of the times as AC I'm rather like that 😅

Are any of the ACs getting the first impulse of ending their messages to late reviewers with "Thank you for your attention to this matter"? 🙃

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Hello nearest-neighbor! 👋

An email found me, and I was well at the time.

The ever increasing surge of verbosity.
Even authors are now more verbose than usual in message to ACs.

And yet again for #ausopen

Haha, I guess they use those non-formatted and messy references all the time on purpose to make sure I will never get to ask them to do that 😆

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During deadline rushes when I'm cleaning up and looking up references just before submission I got blocked out of bot suspicion 😅

yeah, but so convenient to just click on your google scholar plugin :)

Yes, most often in fact. Now, other sources are not more accurate either, so you still have to check.
Changing `article={}` & journal={}` to `inproceedings={}` `booktitle={}` remains easier than parsing and deleting from other kB-sized bib entries

still, google scholar does the shortest exports out of all (fairly easy to check & minimize further for the paper).
compare that with bib entries that my students find: some go to give you the street name of the conference venue and the names of the parents of the program chairs 🙃

Maybe the most important thing I’ve learned over the past few years is that the solution to what looks like a collective action problem is to just start solving it. People will show up.

Seems like a bunch of people are joining BlueSky recently after the whole X situation, so maybe it's worth highlighting this again. Also, if you feel like you should be on this list, send me a message!

The bitter lesson of peer-reviewing?

1/🧵 Q: Can we have both a simple and SOTA architecture in autonomous driving?
R: Yes! 😍
Introducing Driving on Registers (DrivoR):
a pure Transformer backbone that achieves SOTA results in NAVSIM v1 / v2 and closed-loop HUGSIM evaluation.
Here is how 👇

The unreasonable magic of simplicity!
Meet DrivoR (Driving on Registers): our latest end2end autonomous driving model.
We teared down complex dependencies & modules from current models to
obtain a pure Transformer-based SOTA driving agent (NAVSIM v1 & v2, HUGSIM).
Find out more 👇

Postdoctoral research position in Instance-level visual generation Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) offers a fellowship program, the CTU Global Postdoc Fellowship. This new and attractive two-year fellowship-program offers excellent researchers who have rec...

I have an opening for a two years post-doc position on instance-level (personalized) visual generation. Eligibility: (i) <=7 years from Ph.D. (ii) studies or 1 year outside of Czechia (ii) >=3 journal with IF or CORE A*/A conference papers. Deadline: 15 Feb.
Details: www.euraxess.cz/jobs/399390

On some days when my digest arrives later in the day, it feels like the gods of scholar-inbox are punishing me for not checking my digest the prior day 🙃

Taking the kids to daycare by sleigh today

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YES!