Evangelos Kazakos
@ekazakos.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @ CIIRC, CTU, Prague working in vision & language. Also robotics noob. PhD from University of Bristol. Ex. Samsung Research (SAIC-C). I love coffee and plants. And socks.
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Evangelos Kazakos
@ekazakos.bsky.social
· Jun 26
🚨🚨📢📢 PAPER ALERT 📢📢🚨🚨
Excited to announce our new work: "Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation" with Cordelia Schmid & @josef-sivic.bsky.social.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10781
Project: ekazakos.github.io/grounded_vid...
Code (coming soon): github.com/ekazakos/grove 1/7
Excited to announce our new work: "Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation" with Cordelia Schmid & @josef-sivic.bsky.social.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10781
Project: ekazakos.github.io/grounded_vid...
Code (coming soon): github.com/ekazakos/grove 1/7
Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation
We propose a novel approach for captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally dense bounding boxes. We introduce the following con...
arxiv.org
Our work, GROVE, has been accepted to ICCV 2025! 🎉 This is collab. w. Cordelia Schmid & @josef-sivic.bsky.social.
We will release code, models and datasets within next 2 weeks.
We are also working on a search demo for the proposed datasets with user prompts!
I hope to see you all in Honolulu!
We will release code, models and datasets within next 2 weeks.
We are also working on a search demo for the proposed datasets with user prompts!
I hope to see you all in Honolulu!
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Here are some of my big questions
- Latent long/short-term memory
- Continual learning on experience (not datasets)
- Exploration and information gathering
- Counterfactual world models from sensors
- Sensory abstraction facilitating reasoning
- Long-horizon planning
- Latent long/short-term memory
- Continual learning on experience (not datasets)
- Exploration and information gathering
- Counterfactual world models from sensors
- Sensory abstraction facilitating reasoning
- Long-horizon planning
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here are some of my big questions
- Latent long/short-term memory
- Continual learning on experience (not datasets)
- Exploration and information gathering
- Counterfactual world models from sensors
- Sensory abstraction facilitating reasoning
- Long-horizon planning
- Latent long/short-term memory
- Continual learning on experience (not datasets)
- Exploration and information gathering
- Counterfactual world models from sensors
- Sensory abstraction facilitating reasoning
- Long-horizon planning
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Fellow AI researchers: do you think we've made substantial progress on any big open questions that were open in 2018?
My personal reaction is no. We've made tremendous progress scaling and improving distributional learning & other existing solutions, but not on cracking hard open problems.
My personal reaction is no. We've made tremendous progress scaling and improving distributional learning & other existing solutions, but not on cracking hard open problems.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Fellow AI researchers: do you think we've made substantial progress on any big open questions that were open in 2018?
My personal reaction is no. We've made tremendous progress scaling and improving distributional learning & other existing solutions, but not on cracking hard open problems.
My personal reaction is no. We've made tremendous progress scaling and improving distributional learning & other existing solutions, but not on cracking hard open problems.
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels - Nature
Aligning foundation models with human judgments enables them to more accurately approximate human behaviour and uncertainty across various levels of visual abstraction, while additionally improving th...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
The fucking bitter lesson! I hate it, especially when it comes to me a few hours before the deadline.
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The fucking bitter lesson! I hate it, especially when it comes to me a few hours before the deadline.
Got access to H200s 🔥🔥🔥
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Got access to H200s 🔥🔥🔥
Sweetest barista ever! Made my day.
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sweetest barista ever! Made my day.
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Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
This week's #PaperILike is "Lifelong Robot Library Learning: Bootstrapping Composable and Generalizable Skills for Embodied Control with Language Models" (Tziafas & Kasaei, ICRA 2024).
DreamCoder-like robot skill learning. Refactoring helps!
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18746
DreamCoder-like robot skill learning. Refactoring helps!
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18746
Lifelong Robot Library Learning: Bootstrapping Composable and Generalizable Skills for Embodied Control with Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a new paradigm for embodied reasoning and control, most recently by generating robot policy code that utilizes a custom library of vision and control primi...
arxiv.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This week's #PaperILike is "Lifelong Robot Library Learning: Bootstrapping Composable and Generalizable Skills for Embodied Control with Language Models" (Tziafas & Kasaei, ICRA 2024).
DreamCoder-like robot skill learning. Refactoring helps!
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18746
DreamCoder-like robot skill learning. Refactoring helps!
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18746
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Gemeni can now do remote sensing analysis.
developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...
developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...
Unlocking Multi-Spectral Data with Gemini- Google Developers Blog
Multi-spectral imagery, which captures wavelengths beyond human vision, offers a "superhuman" way to understand the world, and Google's Gemini models make this accessible without specialized training.
developers.googleblog.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Gemeni can now do remote sensing analysis.
developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...
developers.googleblog.com/en/unlocking...
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
🆕 Separate Deadlines for #CVPR2026
To improve system stability and provide a clearer submission process, we have just introduced 2 new deadlines that are now separate from the Abstract and the Paper Submission deadlines.
cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
To improve system stability and provide a clearer submission process, we have just introduced 2 new deadlines that are now separate from the Abstract and the Paper Submission deadlines.
cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🆕 Separate Deadlines for #CVPR2026
To improve system stability and provide a clearer submission process, we have just introduced 2 new deadlines that are now separate from the Abstract and the Paper Submission deadlines.
cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
To improve system stability and provide a clearer submission process, we have just introduced 2 new deadlines that are now separate from the Abstract and the Paper Submission deadlines.
cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
How many of these will we have before we do something about it?
This goes so far beyond creepy.
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
How many of these will we have before we do something about it?
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
The web used to look like this
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The web used to look like this
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The robotics revolution is here.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The robotics revolution is here.
This makes me wondering if num_likes/num_followers could be used as a metric for engagement 🤔
you got about 1/2 the likes on the same post here with about 1/5 the followers though
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This makes me wondering if num_likes/num_followers could be used as a metric for engagement 🤔
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
📢🎓 We have open PhD positions in Computer Vision & Machine Learning at @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social within the Reasonable AI Cluster of Excellence — supervised by @stefanroth.bsky.social, @simoneschaub.bsky.social and many others!
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📢🎓 We have open PhD positions in Computer Vision & Machine Learning at @tuda.bsky.social and @hessianai.bsky.social within the Reasonable AI Cluster of Excellence — supervised by @stefanroth.bsky.social, @simoneschaub.bsky.social and many others!
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
This is a very good point. It is one of the reasons why I think generic chatbots should probably be outlawed.
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is a very good point. It is one of the reasons why I think generic chatbots should probably be outlawed.
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Something to consider, along with everything else, when you consider leaving here for there. By posting there, you are contributing to an ecosystem that is designed for the destruction of specific values. You ARE contributing to it. Maybe the tradeoff is worth it to you. For me, it's not.
not only does the richest known nazi in the world endorse andrew cuomo but he’s boosting it as a paid ad on twitter
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Something to consider, along with everything else, when you consider leaving here for there. By posting there, you are contributing to an ecosystem that is designed for the destruction of specific values. You ARE contributing to it. Maybe the tradeoff is worth it to you. For me, it's not.
I agree for most of it, but is it the developer/vendor that needs to list acceptable usecases or a higher regulation authority? 🤔
those certainly are a good example of good use & bad use (mind, not *misuse*) that an expert like *you* can come up with. my point however is that a developer/vendor needs to list acceptable usecase for there to be a clear misuse. otherwise vendors launder accountability to user claiming "misuse"
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I agree for most of it, but is it the developer/vendor that needs to list acceptable usecases or a higher regulation authority? 🤔
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...
A second Google A.I. researcher says the company fired her. (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just for those not aware, Margaret Mitchell is an AI ethicist who was fired by Google after co-authoring the famous "Stochastic Parrots" paper that criticized the entire project of ever-larger LLMs way before most of the people now blocking her had ever heard of them. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/t...
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Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
What if we could represent events (event cameras) in a way that preserves both asynchrony and spatial sparsity?
Exited to share our latest work where we answer this question positively.
Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26614
Exited to share our latest work where we answer this question positively.
Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26614
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What if we could represent events (event cameras) in a way that preserves both asynchrony and spatial sparsity?
Exited to share our latest work where we answer this question positively.
Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26614
Exited to share our latest work where we answer this question positively.
Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26614
I have a serious idea. Should we start making anti-anti-ai lists? 😈
Something needs to be done ASAP @bsky.app. Great people are leaving the platform due to this nonsense.
I really wanted this social network to work for me. But apparently, I’m on the worst block lists out there… a bit unfair.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I have a serious idea. Should we start making anti-anti-ai lists? 😈
Something needs to be done ASAP @bsky.app. Great people are leaving the platform due to this nonsense.
I really wanted this social network to work for me. But apparently, I’m on the worst block lists out there… a bit unfair.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
November 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Something needs to be done ASAP @bsky.app. Great people are leaving the platform due to this nonsense.
Reposted by Evangelos Kazakos
Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al!
PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al!
PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...