Vicente Ordonez

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My solidarity to Harvard colleagues and my respect for maintaining dignity during troubled times. Their leadership makes their standing in the global stage well deserved.

An owl which is the mascot of Rice is formed on the foam of a cappuccino

Cappuccino served at the 50th year celebration of the School of Engineering and Computing at Rice.

Group picture with my PhD students #studio-ghibli

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I wish more authors of papers I have missed citing would email me. At the same time I have only done this sparely and mostly with people I already know first hand or had some kind of interaction in the past and in no case I believe this was deliberate. It is just hard to keep up sometimes.

Thanks CVPR for bringing the conversation here

We just have to believe

I remember when Twitter was this small and familiar. I had/have some followers on Twitter that now are low key celebrities but probably followed me long way back before they became low key celebrities.

By popular demand, we are extending #CVPR2025 coverage to Bluesky. Stay tuned!

But if it does happen in the open, my hope is that it’s a concerted effort that includes academics as much as a larger coalition of people who agrees this issue is important.

There should be pushback publicly but it should not be only self serving. If people only express concerns when it directly affects them that’s a sad state of things.

Indeed I don’t feel that way. I think there should be pushback but I also think the general public should be as concerned. Complaining and pushing back will happen but maybe not in the open.

That said there's no reason to not continue using our institutional channels to continue championing science and education.

One thing we can do going forward is to work so that the general community gets convinced why funding science and having strong research institutions is a good thing. This time we might have to learn from our mistakes.

There are so many more things to be outraged about at the moment than complaining about federal funding for science. Especially when coming from academics, it is a bit too self-serving at this moment. Yes it is bad and the effects will be long lasting but so will be a dozen other things.

Great times for innovation ahead!

These are models that can perfectly be run on most cheap hardware unlike the full large R1. But I wouldn’t be surprised we will see R1 quality running on more accessible hardware.

Everyone concentrates on o1 and R1 but even the base 7B or 1.5B models seem better than the very first public version of ChatGPT (3.5-turbo) that took the world by surprise.

I think it’s exciting to see LLMs that are open source and on par with the top models accesible only through APIs. DeepSeek and before that Llama-3.

Can pretrained diffusion models be connected for cross-modal generation?

📢 Introducing AV-Link ♾️

Bridging unimodal diffusion models in one self-contained framework to enable:
📽️ ➡️ 🔊 Video-to-Audio generation.
🔊 ➡️ 📽️ Audio-to-Video generation.

🌐: snap-research.github.io/AVLink/

⤵️ Results

AV-Link: Temporally-Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Modal Audio-Video Generation We propose AV-Link, a unified framework for Video-to-Audio and Audio-to-Video generation that leverages the activations of frozen video and audio diffusion models for temporally-aligned cross-modal co...

Link to arxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.15191

Check this recent work by my PhD student Moayed. He has been doing amazing work on Generative AI for images, video and audio. We introduce AV-Link ♾️, an unified approach for audio-video generation. Our generated audio is the best in terms of synchronization with video actions. Check thread below.

I still don’t feel quite more productive in the era of LLMs. There are very few things I can do better but far from what I hear from anecdotes. I wonder what would be the one low hanging fruit I should be delegating to LLMs.

Happy New Year Everyone!

I remember watching this video circa 2009-2010.

End of year celebration with the great Moshe Vardi @myvardi.bsky.social is one of the perks of Rice. Hopefully he will be active on Bluesky soon.

news.rice.edu/news/2024/ri...

Job alert! 🚨 (a bit special but anyway)

If you are (or know someone who is) a Phd about to graduate or just graduated, and have to skip some in between time, I currently have a PostDoc position that could run for 6 months.

Needed: Experience with publishing at Top A conferences.
Just ping me. 👍