Noa Garcia

I'll be in Europe in December. First in EurIPS and then in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid). Drop me a message if you are there and want to meet :-)

Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval
@billpsomas.bsky.social George Retsinas @nikos-efth.bsky.social Panagiotis Filntisis,Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, @gtolias.bsky.social

tl;dr: condition-based retrieval (+dataset) - old photo/sunset/night/aerial/model arxiv.org/abs/2510.25387

The AI apocalypse isn't real. This is.

Looking for a PhD program? It all starts with great supervision. Choose wisely.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations! It couldn't have gone any other way

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

This is the real-world harm of computer vision: false accusations of gun possession over a bag of crisps. Deploying this in public is reckless.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

#ICCV2025 is being a blast! The brilliant @ryan-ramos.bsky.social & @patrick-ramos.bsky.social twins are the best poster designers (see proof below!).

Come and say hi today to our next poster from 14:30 - 16:30 HST at Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207.

This is today in less than 2 hours. Come by and say hi!

Are you at @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025? Come by our poster.

 📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
 📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207

Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!

You can also find me at the poster sessions presenting these papers!

Our list of papers to be presented at #iccv2025 workshops and main conference. Please come by and say hi!

* Oct 19, STREAM workshop
* Oct 20, Findings workshop
* Oct 21, Poster session 2 id #801
* Oct 22, Poster session 4 id #1572 (highlight)

Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!

I feel you! I guess after iccv it will be full cvpr mode, so powerpoint --> overleaf.

Noa Garcia (@noagarciad.bsky.social) from Osaka University will be an invited speaker at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2025. #DLBCN

www.noagarciad.com

A lot of my work thinks about the impact of our technology. Lately, that's led me to spend a considerable amount time thinking about the military uses of AI and the harm that our algorithms cause in people's lives. It makes it difficult to keep working on AI. If you feel the same, let's talk.
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🐥Fairness🐥
Algorithmic fairness, social bias, stereotype amplification. You name it. It's everywhere: in models, datasets, evaluation practices. We have work on captioning, VQA, datasets, generation, classification. Our latest perspective on image generation 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🌸Art🌸
Computer vision for art is fun, but interdisciplinary work is tough. TLDR: problems interesting to computer scientists aren't useful for art historians, and what art historians need doesn't always motivate computer scientists. We try to bridge the gap 👇
bsky.app/profile/noag...
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✨Representation learning✨
In our last paper (to be presented at #ICCV2025 as a highlight!), we analyzed a ton of visual encoders and found that pretrained VLMs know a lot about cameras. Full thread and link to arxiv here 👇
bsky.app/profile/stoj...
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I work on different topics but maybe people mostly know my work on fairness and art. I sometimes work on representation learning too. A brief intro to each
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I'm Noa. I work on computer vision. I'm based in Osaka and I love Japan but I struggle with Japanese. I have amazing students working with me. They are the best
@yankunwu.bsky.social ( soon-to-be-graduated 🎉), @patrick-ramos.bsky.social, @ryan-ramos.bsky.social, @luwei56.bsky.social, Tong Xiang
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Looks like our paper's fate at NeurIPS has brought new people here, hi everyone! Maybe it's about time to introduce myself 👋
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Now it looks like space is not the reason, which makes things even more opaque
bsky.app/profile/euri...

This is not OK.

I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???

That's even worse. Then, why papers recommended for acceptance by the AC have been rejected? @neuripsconf.bsky.social

The lack of transparency and justification damages trust in peer review.

Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉

At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!

This is the metareview

We are one of the unfortunate papers that didn't make the neurips cut-off despite being originally accepted. Second submission this year that gets rejected from #neurips2025 without any reasonable explanation (the other one was a workshop proposal).

Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from...

Department of War. Now with 100% less euphemism. A moment of clarity for research on DoD grants. For even more clarity, check @davidthewid.bsky.social work

The Banal Evil of AI Safety Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?

I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...