Andrei Bursuc
@abursuc.bsky.social
Research Scientist at valeo.ai | Teaching at Polytechnique, ENS | Alumni at Mines Paris, Inria, ENS | AI for Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision, Machine Learning | Robotics amateur
⚲ Paris, France 🔗 abursuc.github.io
⚲ Paris, France 🔗 abursuc.github.io
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Andrei Bursuc
@abursuc.bsky.social
· Jul 21
1/ Can open-data models beat DINOv2? Today we release Franca, a fully open-sourced vision foundation model. Franca with ViT-G backbone matches (and often beats) proprietary models like SigLIPv2, CLIP, DINOv2 on various benchmarks setting a new standard for open-source research.
We have a few fun papers at #BMVC2025
Check them out!
Check them out!
The team is at BMVC'25 @bmvcconf.bsky.social
to present three papers tackling challenges in 3D vision!
We are presenting new works on:
✨ Diffusion for LiDAR point-clouds
🌙 Depth estimation with light enhancement
🔄 Multimodal distillation for 3D semantic segmentation
👇 #BMVC2025
to present three papers tackling challenges in 3D vision!
We are presenting new works on:
✨ Diffusion for LiDAR point-clouds
🌙 Depth estimation with light enhancement
🔄 Multimodal distillation for 3D semantic segmentation
👇 #BMVC2025
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We have a few fun papers at #BMVC2025
Check them out!
Check them out!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Honored to host a very special guest today: Huy V. Vo, PhD alumnus of @valeoai.bsky.social
He presented his work on automatic data-curation strategies for self-supervised representation learning (DINOv2, DINOv3). Find out more about his research here: huyvvo.github.io
He presented his work on automatic data-curation strategies for self-supervised representation learning (DINOv2, DINOv3). Find out more about his research here: huyvvo.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Honored to host a very special guest today: Huy V. Vo, PhD alumnus of @valeoai.bsky.social
He presented his work on automatic data-curation strategies for self-supervised representation learning (DINOv2, DINOv3). Find out more about his research here: huyvvo.github.io
He presented his work on automatic data-curation strategies for self-supervised representation learning (DINOv2, DINOv3). Find out more about his research here: huyvvo.github.io
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Thrilled to have Jayneel Parekh visiting us over a break in the CVPR sprint to talk about his exciting works in analyzing MLLMs representations. Check out his great work jayneelparekh.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Thrilled to have Jayneel Parekh visiting us over a break in the CVPR sprint to talk about his exciting works in analyzing MLLMs representations. Check out his great work jayneelparekh.github.io
Excellent speaker lineup for the @naverlabseurope.bsky.social AI for Robotics Workshop.
For those at home, the event is live-streamed on the landing page: europe.naverlabs.com/updates/ai4r...
For those at home, the event is live-streamed on the landing page: europe.naverlabs.com/updates/ai4r...
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Excellent speaker lineup for the @naverlabseurope.bsky.social AI for Robotics Workshop.
For those at home, the event is live-streamed on the landing page: europe.naverlabs.com/updates/ai4r...
For those at home, the event is live-streamed on the landing page: europe.naverlabs.com/updates/ai4r...
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Pro-tip: if you send me an email asking for an internship, a PhD or a postdoc position, don't copy/paste an over-hyped summary of one of my papers you just asked ChatGPT to spit out.
Pro-tip#2: don't do that with other professors as well. It's not just me.
Pro-tip#2: don't do that with other professors as well. It's not just me.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Pro-tip: if you send me an email asking for an internship, a PhD or a postdoc position, don't copy/paste an over-hyped summary of one of my papers you just asked ChatGPT to spit out.
Pro-tip#2: don't do that with other professors as well. It's not just me.
Pro-tip#2: don't do that with other professors as well. It's not just me.
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
#KostasThoughts: Please stop using AI tools to write reviews. I want your authentic thoughts, even if they contain spelling, grammar, & factual mistakes. An LLM should not influence your judgment. The purpose of multiple reviewers is to provide diverse views and error checking.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
#KostasThoughts: Please stop using AI tools to write reviews. I want your authentic thoughts, even if they contain spelling, grammar, & factual mistakes. An LLM should not influence your judgment. The purpose of multiple reviewers is to provide diverse views and error checking.
All the slop review drama unfolding at ICLR is painful to watch. But having so many eyes on it puts us in a better point to find solutions. This would have taken longer to be exposed on a closed platform where we may have had a few screenshots and a few author stories at best.
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
All the slop review drama unfolding at ICLR is painful to watch. But having so many eyes on it puts us in a better point to find solutions. This would have taken longer to be exposed on a closed platform where we may have had a few screenshots and a few author stories at best.
Post-CVPR deadline run, at last
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Post-CVPR deadline run, at last
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Coarse plan for a 1-week rebuttal period:
day 1: read the reviews
day 2-6: calm down
day 7: write the rebuttal
day 1: read the reviews
day 2-6: calm down
day 7: write the rebuttal
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Coarse plan for a 1-week rebuttal period:
day 1: read the reviews
day 2-6: calm down
day 7: write the rebuttal
day 1: read the reviews
day 2-6: calm down
day 7: write the rebuttal
Unlike ICLR reviews, the sunrise never disappoints
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Unlike ICLR reviews, the sunrise never disappoints
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS and then I changed to a series of Android phones in 2013 (HTC One, Lenovo K6, Xiami Note 7, Google Pixel 6) but was always nostalgic about iOS. Now I switched back to an iPhone 16. I waited 2 weeks before writing this, but I am __VERY__ unhappy about iOS.
🧵 1/8
🧵 1/8
June 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS and then I changed to a series of Android phones in 2013 (HTC One, Lenovo K6, Xiami Note 7, Google Pixel 6) but was always nostalgic about iOS. Now I switched back to an iPhone 16. I waited 2 weeks before writing this, but I am __VERY__ unhappy about iOS.
🧵 1/8
🧵 1/8
I recently had to switch to an iphone after an entire life on android phones.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I recently had to switch to an iphone after an entire life on android phones.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
First shock is how bad and limited is the ios clock app compared to the google one -- I might be using alarms in very peculiar ways 😅
If you're out of ideas you can always have a look on what other folks are trying out.
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
We introduce MIRO: a new paradigm for T2I model alignment integrating reward conditioning into pretraining, eliminating the need for separate fine-tuning/RL stages. This single-stage approach offers unprecedented efficiency and control.
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We introduce MIRO: a new paradigm for T2I model alignment integrating reward conditioning into pretraining, eliminating the need for separate fine-tuning/RL stages. This single-stage approach offers unprecedented efficiency and control.
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
- 19x faster convergence ⚡
- 370x less FLOPS than FLUX-dev 📉
The perks of early risers
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The perks of early risers
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
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!
This is a major reset for autonomous driving research!
So exciting 🚀
So exciting 🚀
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a major reset for autonomous driving research!
So exciting 🚀
So exciting 🚀
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
X-mas came earlier this year!
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia has just released the huge Physical AI AV Dataset
- 1727 hrs of driving data: 310K clips of 20s
- sensor rig: 7 cameras, lidar, radar
- 25 countries, 2.5K cities from US + Europe
Kudos to @kashyap7x.bsky.social et al.!
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
EuroHPC wrote a piece about our love of GPUs 😊
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
EuroHPC wrote a piece about our love of GPUs 😊
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
A EuroHPC Success Story | Clear Vision for Self-Driving Cars
www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-succ...
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
A reminder which might be relevant now: we are looking to hire a senior research scientist in Robotics at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social in Grenoble, France.
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A reminder which might be relevant now: we are looking to hire a senior research scientist in Robotics at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social in Grenoble, France.
Today is the day for our @iccv.bsky.social
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
October 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today is the day for our @iccv.bsky.social
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
workshop that we've been cooking with excitement in the past months.
Learning to See: Advancing Spatial Understanding for Embodied Intelligence #ICCV2025
Join us!
opendrivelab.com/iccv2025/wor...
Trying to mitigate ICCV FOMO today.
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
October 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trying to mitigate ICCV FOMO today.
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Staying at home this time.
Have fun everybody!
Reposted by Andrei Bursuc
Our recent research will be presented at @iccv.bsky.social! #ICCV2025
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our recent research will be presented at @iccv.bsky.social! #ICCV2025
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
We’ll present 5 papers about:
💡 self-supervised & representation learning
🌍 3D occupancy & multi-sensor perception
🧩 open-vocabulary segmentation
🧠 multimodal LLMs & explainability
valeoai.github.io/posts/iccv-2...
Hear! Hear!
Whatever you do, don’t burn out. It’s terrible and it’s hard to fully recover, like a knee injury that makes you too scared to try jumping again
October 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hear! Hear!