Christian Wolf
@chriswolfvision.bsky.social
Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe, Lead of Spatial AI team. AI for Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Austrian in France. https://chriswolfvision.github.io/www/
This 👇
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This 👇
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
And I'd like to add: when as a teenager I learned about the lack of scale invariance of physics I was devastated and it took me a long time to recover from it. The wrong idea that a human on a tiny scale would function normally is inshrined in pop culture (eg. ant man), but very wrong.
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Meet Anny. One model. Every body. A new human model that fits everyone!
✅ Works for all ages
✅ Free & open (Apache 2.0)
✅ Privacy-friendly (no scans)
✅ Simple parameters
Blog: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z
Code: github.com/naver/anny
An alternative 4 #VR, #AR #Robotics.
#3DHumanModeling #OpenSource
✅ Works for all ages
✅ Free & open (Apache 2.0)
✅ Privacy-friendly (no scans)
✅ Simple parameters
Blog: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z
Code: github.com/naver/anny
An alternative 4 #VR, #AR #Robotics.
#3DHumanModeling #OpenSource
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Meet Anny. One model. Every body. A new human model that fits everyone!
✅ Works for all ages
✅ Free & open (Apache 2.0)
✅ Privacy-friendly (no scans)
✅ Simple parameters
Blog: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z
Code: github.com/naver/anny
An alternative 4 #VR, #AR #Robotics.
#3DHumanModeling #OpenSource
✅ Works for all ages
✅ Free & open (Apache 2.0)
✅ Privacy-friendly (no scans)
✅ Simple parameters
Blog: tinyurl.com/5fsekm9z
Code: github.com/naver/anny
An alternative 4 #VR, #AR #Robotics.
#3DHumanModeling #OpenSource
A new model for human mesh recovery, high-performing and w/o using any 3D scans, has been published by my excellent colleagues at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social. Excellent work!
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A new model for human mesh recovery, high-performing and w/o using any 3D scans, has been published by my excellent colleagues at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social. Excellent work!
I recently learned that summer schools are a European thing and do not exist elsewhere. Wow. They seem so obvious, why didn't they spread?
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I recently learned that summer schools are a European thing and do not exist elsewhere. Wow. They seem so obvious, why didn't they spread?
"Sliding is all you need" (aka "What really matters in image goal navigation") has been accepted to 3DV 2026 (@3dvconf.bsky.social) as an Oral presentation!
By Gianluca Monaci, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself.
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
By Gianluca Monaci, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself.
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
In a new paper led by Gianluca Monaci, with @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself, we explore the relationship between rel pose estimation and image goal navigation and study different architectures: late fusion, channel cat (w/ or w/o space2depth) and cross-attention.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01667
🧵1/5
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01667
🧵1/5
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"Sliding is all you need" (aka "What really matters in image goal navigation") has been accepted to 3DV 2026 (@3dvconf.bsky.social) as an Oral presentation!
By Gianluca Monaci, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself.
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
By Gianluca Monaci, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself.
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social
Openreview is very unstable today. Lot's of different failures with various error messages.
@openreview.bsky.social
@openreview.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Openreview is very unstable today. Lot's of different failures with various error messages.
@openreview.bsky.social
@openreview.bsky.social
Early morning train rides often provide spectacular views.
(between Lyon and Grenoble).
(between Lyon and Grenoble).
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Early morning train rides often provide spectacular views.
(between Lyon and Grenoble).
(between Lyon and Grenoble).
Well played, #NeurIPS2025 video recording software (SlideLive)
😂
😂
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well played, #NeurIPS2025 video recording software (SlideLive)
😂
😂
That is interesting and funny, and incidentally, the LLM is actually right in its statement, even if the conjecture proved to be correct in hindsight.
It is also completely possible to provide a conjecture in a conclusion of paper as long as it is written as just that: a conjecture (suggestion).
It is also completely possible to provide a conjecture in a conclusion of paper as long as it is written as just that: a conjecture (suggestion).
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
That is interesting and funny, and incidentally, the LLM is actually right in its statement, even if the conjecture proved to be correct in hindsight.
It is also completely possible to provide a conjecture in a conclusion of paper as long as it is written as just that: a conjecture (suggestion).
It is also completely possible to provide a conjecture in a conclusion of paper as long as it is written as just that: a conjecture (suggestion).
I am late to game, but "One battle after the other" is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended.
www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...
www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...
November 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I am late to game, but "One battle after the other" is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended.
www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...
www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt3...
This is a nice initiative by the South Korean government. Love it.
This is sound policy.
This is sound policy.
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports. But, unlike similar laws that have been proposed in the US, this new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply as well!
more…
electrek.co
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is a nice initiative by the South Korean government. Love it.
This is sound policy.
This is sound policy.
PointSt3R: Point Tracking through 3D Grounded Correspondence
R. Guerrier, @adamharley.bsky.social, @dimadamen.bsky.social
Bristol/Meta
rhodriguerrier.github.io/PointSt3R/
R. Guerrier, @adamharley.bsky.social, @dimadamen.bsky.social
Bristol/Meta
rhodriguerrier.github.io/PointSt3R/
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
PointSt3R: Point Tracking through 3D Grounded Correspondence
R. Guerrier, @adamharley.bsky.social, @dimadamen.bsky.social
Bristol/Meta
rhodriguerrier.github.io/PointSt3R/
R. Guerrier, @adamharley.bsky.social, @dimadamen.bsky.social
Bristol/Meta
rhodriguerrier.github.io/PointSt3R/
En Français 🇫🇷, long, mais MDR
(Merci @jdigne.bsky.social pour la recommandation)
www.yodablog.net?p=3233
(Merci @jdigne.bsky.social pour la recommandation)
www.yodablog.net?p=3233
YODABLOG » Episode 497 : Sith Down
Episode 497 : Sith Down
www.yodablog.net
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
En Français 🇫🇷, long, mais MDR
(Merci @jdigne.bsky.social pour la recommandation)
www.yodablog.net?p=3233
(Merci @jdigne.bsky.social pour la recommandation)
www.yodablog.net?p=3233
Reposted by Christian Wolf
Launching the Physical AI AV Dataset! 🚀
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Launching the Physical AI AV Dataset! 🚀
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
One of the largest, most diverse & commercially usable open-source datasets for AVs.
- 1727 hours of driving data
- Camera, LiDAR, & radar
- 25 countries, 2500+ cities
This is just the beginning, more features to come!
The first movie projector by the Lumière brothers in Lyon (musée lumière à Lyon).
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The first movie projector by the Lumière brothers in Lyon (musée lumière à Lyon).
The final boss of our house.
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The final boss of our house.
This it the first time I see Aphantasia (the inability of ~3% of people to mentally visualize images) as an argument for CV and AI.
TLDR: the authors suggest that rendering and physics simulation are not dissociated; both are necessary for world models.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.208...
Luo et. al
TLDR: the authors suggest that rendering and physics simulation are not dissociated; both are necessary for world models.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.208...
Luo et. al
October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This it the first time I see Aphantasia (the inability of ~3% of people to mentally visualize images) as an argument for CV and AI.
TLDR: the authors suggest that rendering and physics simulation are not dissociated; both are necessary for world models.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.208...
Luo et. al
TLDR: the authors suggest that rendering and physics simulation are not dissociated; both are necessary for world models.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.208...
Luo et. al
Distill transformers into Mamba by learning MLP projections between the transformer's Q,K weights and Mamba's B,C matrices.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19266
Wang et al., NUS, UTA
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19266
Wang et al., NUS, UTA
October 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Distill transformers into Mamba by learning MLP projections between the transformer's Q,K weights and Mamba's B,C matrices.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19266
Wang et al., NUS, UTA
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19266
Wang et al., NUS, UTA
Midway networks are cool: representation learning of motion and reconstruction jointly. I see similar motivation in V-JEPA 2 "AC", but I really like the execution here:
- hierarchical,
- backwards features with cross-attention.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05558
C. Hoang, @mengyer.bsky.social
NYU
- hierarchical,
- backwards features with cross-attention.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05558
C. Hoang, @mengyer.bsky.social
NYU
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Midway networks are cool: representation learning of motion and reconstruction jointly. I see similar motivation in V-JEPA 2 "AC", but I really like the execution here:
- hierarchical,
- backwards features with cross-attention.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05558
C. Hoang, @mengyer.bsky.social
NYU
- hierarchical,
- backwards features with cross-attention.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.05558
C. Hoang, @mengyer.bsky.social
NYU
If we live in a simulation, then _of course_ it is AI generated ....
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If we live in a simulation, then _of course_ it is AI generated ....
Reposted by Christian Wolf
The ELLIS Society welcomes its new Board. As the primary decision-making body, it will play a vital role in shaping the future of ELLIS and advancing #AI and #MachineLearning research across Europe in a time of global change.
Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...
Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The ELLIS Society welcomes its new Board. As the primary decision-making body, it will play a vital role in shaping the future of ELLIS and advancing #AI and #MachineLearning research across Europe in a time of global change.
Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...
Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...
"A house of dynamite" by Kathryn Bigelow, on Netflix, is an incredible movie.
Recommended.
Recommended.
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"A house of dynamite" by Kathryn Bigelow, on Netflix, is an incredible movie.
Recommended.
Recommended.
Delving into off-policy RL algorithms.
Today: the Ripley buffer.
(Repost from the old site from Oct. 2024, but I just rewatched Aliens for the probably 15th or so time)
Today: the Ripley buffer.
(Repost from the old site from Oct. 2024, but I just rewatched Aliens for the probably 15th or so time)
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Delving into off-policy RL algorithms.
Today: the Ripley buffer.
(Repost from the old site from Oct. 2024, but I just rewatched Aliens for the probably 15th or so time)
Today: the Ripley buffer.
(Repost from the old site from Oct. 2024, but I just rewatched Aliens for the probably 15th or so time)
I suspect that the public outcry over data centers powered by gas turbines would be far bigger if more people knew what they actually are: jet engines driving a shaft (and then, a generator) instead of pushing an aircraft.
Imagine a 747 at full thrust 24h/day in your neighborhood.
Imagine a 747 at full thrust 24h/day in your neighborhood.
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I suspect that the public outcry over data centers powered by gas turbines would be far bigger if more people knew what they actually are: jet engines driving a shaft (and then, a generator) instead of pushing an aircraft.
Imagine a 747 at full thrust 24h/day in your neighborhood.
Imagine a 747 at full thrust 24h/day in your neighborhood.
This is a great video by Patrick Boyle on the cross-investments between many tech companies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL7...
Is AI’s Circular Financing Inflating a Bubble?
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a great video by Patrick Boyle on the cross-investments between many tech companies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbL7...