Frank Dellaert

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Releases · borglab/gtsam GTSAM is a library of C++ classes that implement smoothing and mapping (SAM) in robotics and vision, using factor graphs and Bayes networks as the underlying computing paradigm rather than sparse m...

GTSAM 4.3a0 ! github.com/borglab/gtsa...

I know this look well. It’s the same one I get when I introduce the Fourier transform in my computer vision course to the CS crowd.

Wow, lucky you!

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.

Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.

MASt3R-SLAM code release!
github.com/rmurai0610/M...

Try it out on videos or with a live camera

Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)

Cuts to NSF and CISE Directorate Jeopardize American Leadership in Computing A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…

CRA statement about NSF firings cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...

Some personal news: as of January I am back full-time at Georgia Tech following a 2-year leave as Verdant Robotics’ CTO. I will continue to be involved with Verdant as part-time Chief AI Officer, thinking strategically about the role of AI in Robotics for Ag.

Gemini is good but too verbose :-)

YouTube video by wmaddisn Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador

The visual system of a jumping spider is fascinating. Look at those cones behind the fixed main lenses! The retinas are at the end of the cones. youtu.be/gvN_ex95IcE?...

We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data.
It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried.
In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.

Cool beans!

Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos

TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)

Maybe a broom attached to the train :-)

That’s such a cool idea! (Thanks K for flagging this to me)

Done

Not sure I’m optimistic about that :-) I can see the number of humans involved decrease. Georgia Techs OMSCS is a good metaphor. More TAs, less teachers. TAs will be replaced by AI: one AI-TA per student per course.

I’m sure oxbridge tutors have a pretty good idea of what they have in front of them after a couple of sessions :-)

I don’t have the answers. But I’m optimistic we’ll arrive at a good outcome eventually. We will still need to find a way to somehow contribute value, and to document that fact in order to get hired for those skills. Maybe the key to certification lies in those 1-1 tutoring sessions themselves.

Sure. I think we’ll have to find a different way. At this point when I code, I use ChatGPT/Claude extensively, so maybe we should start thinking about this being a valid way to complete assignments :-)

I am more optimistic. It’s well known that one on one tutoring can be up to two standard deviations more effective than classroom teaching, but it’s prohibitively expensive. AI gives us cost-effective solution for just that. It’s *already* doing that for me :-)

First iRIM@GT seminar of 2025: Ani Majumdar! Well attended!

Sign of the times, in 2025

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!)

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

3D feed-forward Gaussian Splatting feels like magic, let alone 4D!

A black and white photo of M31, the Andromeda galaxy. It is characterized by spiral arms and dark lanes of dust and gas, with a bright center.

100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.

There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️