Lamberto Ballan
@lambertoballan.bsky.social
Researcher in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Embodied AI / Associate Prof of CS @UniPadova since 2017 / @ellis.eu member
Previously: EU MSCA Fellow 2014-17 @Stanford and @UniFirenze
📍Padova, Italy 🔗 http://vimp.math.unipd.it/
Previously: EU MSCA Fellow 2014-17 @Stanford and @UniFirenze
📍Padova, Italy 🔗 http://vimp.math.unipd.it/
On my way to Nashville for hashtag. #CVPR25; almost ready to dance! We will present "TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks" at the main conference (June 15) and at the Embodied AI Workshop (June 12).
If you are in Nashville and want to catch up, DM me here or via email!
If you are in Nashville and want to catch up, DM me here or via email!
June 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On my way to Nashville for hashtag. #CVPR25; almost ready to dance! We will present "TANGO: Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks" at the main conference (June 15) and at the Embodied AI Workshop (June 12).
If you are in Nashville and want to catch up, DM me here or via email!
If you are in Nashville and want to catch up, DM me here or via email!
This is insane
JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students
International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
www.npr.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is insane
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Our paper submission deadline for the EVAL-FoMo workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social has been extended to March 19th!
sites.google.com/view/eval-fo...
We welcome submissions (incl. published papers) on the analysis of emerging capabilities / limits in visual foundation models. #CVPR2025
sites.google.com/view/eval-fo...
We welcome submissions (incl. published papers) on the analysis of emerging capabilities / limits in visual foundation models. #CVPR2025
March 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Our paper submission deadline for the EVAL-FoMo workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social has been extended to March 19th!
sites.google.com/view/eval-fo...
We welcome submissions (incl. published papers) on the analysis of emerging capabilities / limits in visual foundation models. #CVPR2025
sites.google.com/view/eval-fo...
We welcome submissions (incl. published papers) on the analysis of emerging capabilities / limits in visual foundation models. #CVPR2025
Just a reminder that (very) often this is our outcome... and that this short discussion with Nobel prize Ben Faringa is, to me, one of the best I have ever heard about "failures and perseverance": youtu.be/vpPfb6CscyI?...
March 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just a reminder that (very) often this is our outcome... and that this short discussion with Nobel prize Ben Faringa is, to me, one of the best I have ever heard about "failures and perseverance": youtu.be/vpPfb6CscyI?...
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#KostasThoughts: When communicating with conference organizers, start by assuming good intentions and always keep it respectful. Remember, these are real people, volunteering their time and making personal sacrifices to bring everything together.
March 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#KostasThoughts: When communicating with conference organizers, start by assuming good intentions and always keep it respectful. Remember, these are real people, volunteering their time and making personal sacrifices to bring everything together.
I am thrilled to share that TANGO (Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks) finally made it to #CVPR2025!
Super proud of my students F. Ziliotto and T. Campari who made an awesome work. It took two rounds of review, some trouble, and many improvements, but this made the work stronger!
Super proud of my students F. Ziliotto and T. Campari who made an awesome work. It took two rounds of review, some trouble, and many improvements, but this made the work stronger!
February 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I am thrilled to share that TANGO (Training-free Embodied AI Agents for Open-world Tasks) finally made it to #CVPR2025!
Super proud of my students F. Ziliotto and T. Campari who made an awesome work. It took two rounds of review, some trouble, and many improvements, but this made the work stronger!
Super proud of my students F. Ziliotto and T. Campari who made an awesome work. It took two rounds of review, some trouble, and many improvements, but this made the work stronger!
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A good review spells out a paper's contributions & strengths/shortcomings targeted for someone who doesn't work on the problem & has not read the paper!
A good review also gives actionable feedback to improve the work regardless of the accept/reject decision.
Happy reviewing!
A good review also gives actionable feedback to improve the work regardless of the accept/reject decision.
Happy reviewing!
February 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A good review spells out a paper's contributions & strengths/shortcomings targeted for someone who doesn't work on the problem & has not read the paper!
A good review also gives actionable feedback to improve the work regardless of the accept/reject decision.
Happy reviewing!
A good review also gives actionable feedback to improve the work regardless of the accept/reject decision.
Happy reviewing!
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Welcome to NAVER LABS Europe on Bluesky! We chose 'LABS blue' to kickoff our posts & we'd appreciate it if you could share this one widely tinyurl.com/2nt9jdnv 😊 #hiring #jobs #internships
February 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Welcome to NAVER LABS Europe on Bluesky! We chose 'LABS blue' to kickoff our posts & we'd appreciate it if you could share this one widely tinyurl.com/2nt9jdnv 😊 #hiring #jobs #internships
Happy to give a talk very soon in Florence, in a very familiar place ("my alma mater") with some familiar faces, about our recent works in the embodied computer vision field!
February 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy to give a talk very soon in Florence, in a very familiar place ("my alma mater") with some familiar faces, about our recent works in the embodied computer vision field!
#ICLR decisions are out! We have a paper on social navigation (this is an early version arxiv.org/abs/2404.11327). Great collaboration with @galasso.bsky.social and his awesome students from Sapienza Univ of Rome
January 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#ICLR decisions are out! We have a paper on social navigation (this is an early version arxiv.org/abs/2404.11327). Great collaboration with @galasso.bsky.social and his awesome students from Sapienza Univ of Rome
Still have two missing reviews (that hopefully will be done by heroic emergency reviewers)... I am still against "collective punishment" that would impact other co-authors. But I agree that ghosts are the worst; maybe we could consider individual ban preventing submissions to the next conferences.
#KostasThoughts: I’m more convinced than ever that desk rejecting all papers from reviewers who ghost the process should be standard practice. It’s completely unprofessional!
January 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Still have two missing reviews (that hopefully will be done by heroic emergency reviewers)... I am still against "collective punishment" that would impact other co-authors. But I agree that ghosts are the worst; maybe we could consider individual ban preventing submissions to the next conferences.
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Prof. on website vs Prof. in person
January 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Prof. on website vs Prof. in person
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Brilliant talk by Ilya, but he's wrong on one point.
We are NOT running out of data. We are running out of human-written text.
We have more videos than we know what to do with. We just haven't solved pre-training in vision.
Just go out and sense the world. Data is easy.
December 14, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Brilliant talk by Ilya, but he's wrong on one point.
We are NOT running out of data. We are running out of human-written text.
We have more videos than we know what to do with. We just haven't solved pre-training in vision.
Just go out and sense the world. Data is easy.
Congratulations to our fresh CS graduates! They both did a great job at the intersection between vision and language.
December 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Congratulations to our fresh CS graduates! They both did a great job at the intersection between vision and language.
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Calling all ELLIS PhDs & Postdocs!
Join the #ELLISWinterSchool in Brunico 🇮🇹 on Jan 27-31, 2025 for lectures on Multimodal Learning, with a focus: Generative Models, Embodied AI & Sustainability.
Apply via elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
#MachineLearning #AI
Join the #ELLISWinterSchool in Brunico 🇮🇹 on Jan 27-31, 2025 for lectures on Multimodal Learning, with a focus: Generative Models, Embodied AI & Sustainability.
Apply via elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
#MachineLearning #AI
ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025 | elias-aiEvent Location and ExperienceWinter School Event Footer
elias-ai.eu
December 12, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Calling all ELLIS PhDs & Postdocs!
Join the #ELLISWinterSchool in Brunico 🇮🇹 on Jan 27-31, 2025 for lectures on Multimodal Learning, with a focus: Generative Models, Embodied AI & Sustainability.
Apply via elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
#MachineLearning #AI
Join the #ELLISWinterSchool in Brunico 🇮🇹 on Jan 27-31, 2025 for lectures on Multimodal Learning, with a focus: Generative Models, Embodied AI & Sustainability.
Apply via elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
#MachineLearning #AI
So true :)
December 7, 2024 at 2:01 PM
So true :)
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Welcome @stanfordhai.bsky.social to bluesky!
November 21, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Welcome @stanfordhai.bsky.social to bluesky!
Super excited to be part of this great winter school (in an amazing place)!
ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School on #DeepLearning and #ComputerVision
📍 Brunico, Italy
🗓 January 27-31, 2025
🔗 Event Website: elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
📍 Brunico, Italy
🗓 January 27-31, 2025
🔗 Event Website: elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-...
ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025 | elias-aiEvent Location and ExperienceWinter School Event Footer
elias-ai.eu
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Super excited to be part of this great winter school (in an amazing place)!
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Looking at ICLR submissions with the lowest score - What a work of art! 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Looking at ICLR submissions with the lowest score - What a work of art! 🧵
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It is hard to fully grasp the versatility of linear operations:
- Rotation / projection / skewing
- Dimension reduction
- Discrete differentiation
- Kernel diffusion
- Matching
- Readout
- Fourier transform
- Weighted average / expectation
- Permutation
- Counting
- Intersection
- Rotation / projection / skewing
- Dimension reduction
- Discrete differentiation
- Kernel diffusion
- Matching
- Readout
- Fourier transform
- Weighted average / expectation
- Permutation
- Counting
- Intersection
November 26, 2024 at 5:00 AM
It is hard to fully grasp the versatility of linear operations:
- Rotation / projection / skewing
- Dimension reduction
- Discrete differentiation
- Kernel diffusion
- Matching
- Readout
- Fourier transform
- Weighted average / expectation
- Permutation
- Counting
- Intersection
- Rotation / projection / skewing
- Dimension reduction
- Discrete differentiation
- Kernel diffusion
- Matching
- Readout
- Fourier transform
- Weighted average / expectation
- Permutation
- Counting
- Intersection
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Created a #robotics and #vision starter pack. Feel free to suggest yourself or others missing from the list!
go.bsky.app/HcQYMj
go.bsky.app/HcQYMj
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Created a #robotics and #vision starter pack. Feel free to suggest yourself or others missing from the list!
go.bsky.app/HcQYMj
go.bsky.app/HcQYMj
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Here we grow again. Introducing my 2nd AWESOME #ComputerVision Starter Pack.
Missed you? Let me know in the thread.
go.bsky.app/Gjcs339
Missed you? Let me know in the thread.
go.bsky.app/Gjcs339
November 24, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Here we grow again. Introducing my 2nd AWESOME #ComputerVision Starter Pack.
Missed you? Let me know in the thread.
go.bsky.app/Gjcs339
Missed you? Let me know in the thread.
go.bsky.app/Gjcs339
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At Naver Labs Europe in Grenoble, France, we are searching for talented PhD interns for work on Spatial AI, geometric and robotic foundation models for navigation and manipulation. If you have experience in Embodied AI and are interested, DM me.
November 23, 2024 at 11:44 AM
At Naver Labs Europe in Grenoble, France, we are searching for talented PhD interns for work on Spatial AI, geometric and robotic foundation models for navigation and manipulation. If you have experience in Embodied AI and are interested, DM me.
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#KostasThoughts: Core math in many #ComputerScience programs is inadequate for studying #ComputerVision & #MachineLearning. Want to study these subjects? Take (single/multi-variable) calculus, linear algebra, statistics & probability.
Your future self will thank you 😉
Your future self will thank you 😉
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM
#KostasThoughts: Core math in many #ComputerScience programs is inadequate for studying #ComputerVision & #MachineLearning. Want to study these subjects? Take (single/multi-variable) calculus, linear algebra, statistics & probability.
Your future self will thank you 😉
Your future self will thank you 😉