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Nicolas Audebert
@nshaud.bsky.social
Neuron trainer and Earth Observation mage at IGN France. Kicking stuff until it works.

🌐 https://nicolas.audebert.at
🐘 http://mastodon.social/@nsh

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I'm excited for the next AI winter. At last we will be able to do something else without any FOMO.
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
Saviez-vous qu'il existe des règles tacites sur lesquelles s'appuient la numérotation des rues de Paris ? ​🤔

Par exemple, lorsqu'une rue est plus ou moins parallèle aux berges de la Seine, la numérotation croît de l'amont vers l'aval de ce cours d'eau.

En savoir plus 👉 www.ign.fr/mag/numerota...
January 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM
TIL: fitting a monotonic function to an arbitrary curve is called isotonic regression

scikit-learn.org/stable/modul...
1.15. Isotonic regression
The class IsotonicRegression fits a non-decreasing real function to 1-dimensional data. It solves the following problem:\min \sum_i w_i (y_i - \hat{y}_i)^2 subject to\hat{y}_i \le \hat{y}_j wheneve...
scikit-learn.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
Sérieusement pour dire « je choisis de faire de la slow science » il faut déjà être dans une position luxueuse (e.g. CNRS) où l’on peut se poser la question et pas à courir partout pour gérer l’enseignement et faire sa recherche dans les interstices
January 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
Hi @cvprconference.bsky.social,
Could you please for the next year add the checkbox at reviewer registration like
"I promise to deliver reviews on time, do NOT spam me everyday like I am stupid and untrustworthy and not adult."
Best, Dmytro.
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Scholar Inbox is recommending me papers that I'm reviewing. Good job, I guess? 😅
January 9, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Anthromorphisation des LLM et déshumanisation des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux. Pas bravo Epsiloon, ni aux auteurs de ce « papier » publié dans un journal prédateur.
Menteuse et cachottière, parfois introvertie, influençable, voire carrément mégalo… Des chercheurs en informatique ont analysé les publications scientifiques et médiatiques pour établir les principaux dysfonctionnements de l’IA, et fait le parallèle avec nos troubles mentaux. Le Big Data d'Epsiloon.
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Using proper vocabulary is science and teaching 101.
Responsible researchers have the privilege to unhitch themselves from the "AI" brand at any time. Are you studying wildfire smoke or deforestation using satellite imagery? That used to be "remote sensing" and you can call it that again. Signal processing, image segmentation, structure-from-motion.
December 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Why bother reviewing then, just reject the paper. 🤨
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Why would even write this?
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
TerraBytes proceedings available in PMLR: proceedings.mlr.press/v292/
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Working on image translation? Domain adaptation? Check out FlowEO, newly accepted to #WACV2026. 📝

hal.science/hal-05388176

We introduce a data-dependent flow matching framework to perform image-level unsupervised domain adaptation of remote sensing imagery.

Great work from @lebellig.bsky.social!
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
Signez la pétition demandant la révocation de l'autorisation d'exportation étonnamment accordée à Christie's amis-et-correspondants-centre-international-blaise-pascal.fr/sauvegarde-p...
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
🚀 3e succès commercial pour #Ariane6 !
Le lanceur européen a mis en orbite le satellite #Sentinel1D du programme #Copernicus 🌍

Communiqué : cnes.fr/communiques/...

#ESA #CNES #Arianespace #ArianeGroup @esa.int @fr.esa.int #VA265
Succès de la troisième mission commerciale d’Ariane 6 : Sentinel–1D est en orbite
Le 4 novembre 2025, le lanceur européen Ariane 6 a décollé pour la quatrième fois depuis le Centre spatial guyanais. A bord, le satellite Sentinel-1D a été mis en orbite comme prévu.
cnes.fr
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
See, this is why the public hates AI. We let these kind of people act like this, because we are spoiled little brats who want bigger and bigger datasets. In the end, this is quite the spitting image of a lot of ML research: "that's just data, dude".
Common Crawl says it complies with removal requests—while telling us they are “a pain in the ass”—but also is not actually removing the data in question.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Want to work on generative models and Earth Observation? 🌍

I'm looking for:
🧑‍💻 an intern on generative models for change detection
🧑‍🔬 a PhD student on neurosymbolic generative models for geospatial data

Both starting beginning of 2026.

Details are below, feel free to email me!
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Nicolas Audebert
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The weird thing is that even in academia we fall for this. Every time I have tried an LLM for a real task, it failed, sometimes catastrophically.

And I still have colleagues telling me that "I'm not using right" or "not on the right problems".

Well, I'm using it for MY problems! And it sucks!
"Have you ever actually talked to an AI... I mean really talked to one?"

There's something really perverse about these kinds of replies. I don't know or want to pathologize these people, but it's a mix of hubris, a lack of self-reflection, and bizarre notions of expertise.
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Une nouvelle expo temporaire au meilleur musée de Paris. 🎓
Quatrième expo : Flops ?! au musée des Arts et Métiers à Paris.
Ils ont pris ça au sens assez large, il ne faut pas s'attendre qu'à des produits qui n'ont pas rencontré leur public. Après, ça reste assez sympathique, et pas trop indigeste. Allez-y le matin tôt si vous craignez la foule et l'attente.
Flops ?! | Musée des Arts et Métiers
Exposition temporaire : Échec, raté, bide, fail, fiasco, déconfiture… le « flop » a de nombreux synonymes. Tant mieux, car il est si fréquent de rater qu’il faut avoir le choix du vocabulaire pour évi...
www.arts-et-metiers.net
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What the hell is that? arxiv.org/pdf/2510.24036 Is this some kind of bibliometric optimization strategy? Students pushing fake plagiarized papers to bootstrap their Google Scholar account? I don't understand what the game is here.
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Félicitations au nouveau docteur Maxime Mérizette qui a soutenu avec brio ce matin sa thèse sur la segmentation sémantique de petits objets dans des nuages de points 3D.

Un vaste travail mêlant données synthétiques, pseudo-annotations de modèles profonds. Bravo ! 👏🏻
October 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
📄 New paper led by @leleogere.bsky.social on detecting notational errors in digital music scores. 🎼

To be presented at TENOR 2025!

⤵️ hal.science/hal-05294807
Detecting Notational Errors in Digital Music Scores
Music scores are used to precisely store music pieces for transmission and preservation. To represent and manipulate these complex objects, various formats have been tailored for different use cases. While music notation follows specific rules, digital formats usually enforce them leniently. Hence, digital music scores widely vary in quality, due to software and format specificity, conversion issues, and dubious user inputs. Problems range from minor engraving discrepancies to major notation mistakes. Yet, data quality is a major issue when dealing with musical information extraction and retrieval. We present an automated approach to detect notational errors, aiming at precisely localizing defects in scores. We identify two types of errors: i) rhythm/time inconsistencies in the encoding of individual musical elements, and ii) contextual errors, i.e. notation mistakes that break commonly accepted musical rules. We implement the latter using a modular state machine that can be easily extended to include rules representing the usual conventions from the common Western music notation. Finally, we apply this error-detection method to the piano score dataset ASAP. We highlight that around 40% of the scores contain at least one notational error, and manually fix multiple of them to enhance the dataset's quality.
hal.science
October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm done with reviewing for AAAI. This year was the cherry on top:
1. Accepted to review 1 paper while in vacation
2. Assigned 4 papers instead of 1
3. Guilt-tripped when I pushed back
4. Assigned an emergency review with 24h notice *on a Sunday*

I get it 29000 papers is a lot, but I'm a volunteer!
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM