Jonathan Sauder

The Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop at @iccv.bsky.social is starting soon!! All day in 323B, see you there!!

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?

My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.

For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

But is it really a strategy? Or is the entire foreign policy just based on ‘vibes’ from a person cult around delusional narcissistic guy who just incoherently rambles about whatever comes to his mind?

Calling hidden prompts for LLMs ‘bribery’ is overshoots the goal. If we want every paper to be “digestible” by an LLM, we “enable” LLM reviews. Then, there is an incentive to write (with meaningless changes or not) in a way that LLMs give favourable reviews to, instead of writing for humans.

Not sure if “bribing a reviewer” is the right comparison. Is it not literally more like asking for a good review?

But isn’t the real scientific misconduct reviewers who use LLMs for review? Of course hidden prompts in papers are questionable, but they don’t detract from the scientific results/progress like the opposing player (LLM reviews). Under normal circumstances, these prompts have no effect whatsoever

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

biodiv.tw/joinus-20250...

#coralreefs #jobs #jobopportunity #coralecology #coraldiversity #coral #tenuretrack #academia #careers #careerdevelopment #marine

The return of Abrego-Garcia to face due process in the US, after Trump officials swore he would never ever return to the US, is a reminder that politics matters and pressure works.

Don’t give up. Don’t let the fascists relax.

PhD Student in Machine Learning - RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB Do you want to use your expertise in AI to help build a greener future?

Come do your PhD at RISE Lund with myself and Prof. Yifang Ban as supervisors!

You will not only contribute to advancing state-of-the-art ML for Earth observation data — you'll also work hands-on with real-world use cases with diverse project stakeholders.

career.ri.se/en-GB/jobs/5...

Can only be described as regime propaganda

For those in Switzerland (especially Zürich) - I strongly encourage you to go to the World Press Photo exhibition in the Landesmuseum.

Like every year, it's completely soul-crushing, but so important. I have so much admiration for these photographers.

www.worldpressphoto.org/calendar/202...

The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.

When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social

📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social
[please distribute]
💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models
⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025
🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025
📝Detailed description: linked below

I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Learning Machines seminar, tune in on May 8th 15:00 CET to hear about ML/RS for biomass estimation 🌳🛰️💻

Scientists warn coral restoration can’t keep pace with global reef collapse Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it now. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki and pu...

Scientists: there’s only one solution to save coral reefs. “…coral restoration should not be used as a distraction from very-much-needed global actions to reduce carbon emissions and slow down planetary warming.” @MongabayOrg news.mongabay.com/2025/04/scie...

We're looking for a motivated PhD student to join the ECEO Lab at EPFL Valais to work on multi-modal foundation models for earth observation! 🌍🛰️💻🤓

Come work with us under the supervision of Prof. Devis Tuia!

careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD...

Here's the link to the quick and dirty script to do this: github.com/josauder/cor...

Using the Coralscapes dataset, it becomes easy to transfer semantic information directly into 3D point clouds! Here's an example of a few images from a simple camera being used to make a semantic point cloud of an entire transect! #deeplearning #ai #coral #ai4conservation

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

This has been a colossal effort from the team: data acquisition, 1500+ hours of expert annotation, and thorough benchmarking! 🤓

A big thank you to my co-authors @viktordo.bsky.social, Guilhem Banc-Prandi, Gabriela Perna, Anders Meibom, Devis Tuia, and all members and partners of the @trsc_org!

More details in the pre-print: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.20000

Coral reefs are under unprecedented threat, and monitoring is crucial to devising and assessing effective conservation strategies.

Automated coral surveys based on computer vision have potential to scale monitoring up!

The Coralscapes Dataset The Coralscapes Dataset: Semantic Scene Understanding in Coral Reefs

Project website: josauder.github.io/coralscapes/, with code, pre-trained models, and the download.

Coralscapes is deliberately designed to follow the structure of Cityscapes, facilitating the use of state-of-the-art semantic segmentation neural networks in a challenging ecological domain!

New dataset & pre-print:

The Coralscapes dataset for semantic scene understanding in coral reefs! 🤿🎥🐟🐠🐡

Coralscapes is the first dataset consistently annotated for general-purpose semantic segmentation in reefs, spanning 174k segmentation masks of 39 benthic classes on 2074 images!

Le monde reports that on March 9th a French scientist heading for a conference was denied entry to the US. His computer and cellphone were searched, and messages to friends were found where he expressed his opinion on the Trump admin and their politics wrt to science.

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Agreed that fixing some low-hanging fruit of public health could be quite a bang for not so many bucks!

I know this is a half-joke and I’m taking the bait - but if Ukraine loses this war is it forced to surrender we enter a new era of barbarism and imperialism, where military expenditure will remain the number one issue for decades, and air purifiers will be way at the bottom of anyone’s priorities.

@iccv.bsky.social “All authors are required to register as reviewers” - how do I proceed if my submitted paper is interdisciplinary and some of my co-authors don’t have a background in computer vision? They obviously should not review #ICCV2025

What will be the moment where the American people finally stand up against this?