Noa Garcia
@noagarciad.bsky.social
Associate professor at Osaka University.
Working on computer vision, fairness, art.
www.noagarciad.com
Working on computer vision, fairness, art.
www.noagarciad.com
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Noa Garcia
@noagarciad.bsky.social
· Sep 21
A lot of my work thinks about the impact of our technology. Lately, that's led me to spend a considerable amount time thinking about the military uses of AI and the harm that our algorithms cause in people's lives. It makes it difficult to keep working on AI. If you feel the same, let's talk.
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Iclr reviews and cvpr deadline on the same week is 💀
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Iclr reviews and cvpr deadline on the same week is 💀
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🤞🏾A few days left for #CVPR submissions.
🪩 If submitting a paper on composed image retrieval, test your method on i-CIR, the real-world, truly compositional dataset.
#cvpr2026 #composed_image_retrieval #image_retrieval
🪩 If submitting a paper on composed image retrieval, test your method on i-CIR, the real-world, truly compositional dataset.
#cvpr2026 #composed_image_retrieval #image_retrieval
🎉 Instance-level Composed Image Retrieval @ #NeurIPS2025
🎨 Task: given (image of an object instance) + (text modification), retrieve photos of that exact instance under the change.
E.g.: Temple of Poseidon 🏛️ ➕ during sunset 🌅
📦 Project page: vrg.fel.cvut.cz/icir/
🎨 Task: given (image of an object instance) + (text modification), retrieve photos of that exact instance under the change.
E.g.: Temple of Poseidon 🏛️ ➕ during sunset 🌅
📦 Project page: vrg.fel.cvut.cz/icir/
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
🤞🏾A few days left for #CVPR submissions.
🪩 If submitting a paper on composed image retrieval, test your method on i-CIR, the real-world, truly compositional dataset.
#cvpr2026 #composed_image_retrieval #image_retrieval
🪩 If submitting a paper on composed image retrieval, test your method on i-CIR, the real-world, truly compositional dataset.
#cvpr2026 #composed_image_retrieval #image_retrieval
We will be at EurIPS presenting our NeurIPS PC-rejected paper! Come and say hi 🙂
This also means that the Salon de Refusés track is now CLOSED for submissions.
Any organizers or workshop paper authors who have not yet registered are asked to contact EurIPS by email asap.
Any organizers or workshop paper authors who have not yet registered are asked to contact EurIPS by email asap.
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We will be at EurIPS presenting our NeurIPS PC-rejected paper! Come and say hi 🙂
I'll be in Europe in December. First in EurIPS and then in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid). Drop me a message if you are there and want to meet :-)
Noa Garcia (@noagarciad.bsky.social) from Osaka University will be an invited speaker at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2025. #DLBCN
www.noagarciad.com
www.noagarciad.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'll be in Europe in December. First in EurIPS and then in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid). Drop me a message if you are there and want to meet :-)
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval
@billpsomas.bsky.social George Retsinas @nikos-efth.bsky.social Panagiotis Filntisis,Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, @gtolias.bsky.social
tl;dr: condition-based retrieval (+dataset) - old photo/sunset/night/aerial/model arxiv.org/abs/2510.25387
@billpsomas.bsky.social George Retsinas @nikos-efth.bsky.social Panagiotis Filntisis,Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, @gtolias.bsky.social
tl;dr: condition-based retrieval (+dataset) - old photo/sunset/night/aerial/model arxiv.org/abs/2510.25387
November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval
@billpsomas.bsky.social George Retsinas @nikos-efth.bsky.social Panagiotis Filntisis,Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, @gtolias.bsky.social
tl;dr: condition-based retrieval (+dataset) - old photo/sunset/night/aerial/model arxiv.org/abs/2510.25387
@billpsomas.bsky.social George Retsinas @nikos-efth.bsky.social Panagiotis Filntisis,Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, @gtolias.bsky.social
tl;dr: condition-based retrieval (+dataset) - old photo/sunset/night/aerial/model arxiv.org/abs/2510.25387
The AI apocalypse isn't real. This is.
AI-powered drones used by the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza are swarming the skies of American cities. A little-known FAA rule change this year opened the floodgates and sparked a buying spree by US security forces
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities
AI-powered quadcopter drones used by the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza are flying over American cities, surveilling protestors and automatically uploading millions of images to an evidence database.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The AI apocalypse isn't real. This is.
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Looking for a PhD program? It all starts with great supervision. Choose wisely.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Looking for a PhD program? It all starts with great supervision. Choose wisely.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is the real-world harm of computer vision: false accusations of gun possession over a bag of crisps. Deploying this in public is reckless.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US
Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.
www.bbc.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is the real-world harm of computer vision: false accusations of gun possession over a bag of crisps. Deploying this in public is reckless.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#ICCV2025 is being a blast! The brilliant @ryan-ramos.bsky.social & @patrick-ramos.bsky.social twins are the best poster designers (see proof below!).
Come and say hi today to our next poster from 14:30 - 16:30 HST at Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207.
Come and say hi today to our next poster from 14:30 - 16:30 HST at Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207.
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#ICCV2025 is being a blast! The brilliant @ryan-ramos.bsky.social & @patrick-ramos.bsky.social twins are the best poster designers (see proof below!).
Come and say hi today to our next poster from 14:30 - 16:30 HST at Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207.
Come and say hi today to our next poster from 14:30 - 16:30 HST at Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207.
This is today in less than 2 hours. Come by and say hi!
Are you at @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025? Come by our poster.
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
October 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is today in less than 2 hours. Come by and say hi!
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Are you at @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025? Come by our poster.
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Are you at @iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025? Come by our poster.
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
📅 October 22, 2025, 14:30 – 16:30 HST
📍 Location: Exhibit Hall I, Poster #207
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!
Our list of papers to be presented at #iccv2025 workshops and main conference. Please come by and say hi!
* Oct 19, STREAM workshop
* Oct 20, Findings workshop
* Oct 21, Poster session 2 id #801
* Oct 22, Poster session 4 id #1572 (highlight)
* Oct 19, STREAM workshop
* Oct 20, Findings workshop
* Oct 21, Poster session 2 id #801
* Oct 22, Poster session 4 id #1572 (highlight)
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Our list of papers to be presented at #iccv2025 workshops and main conference. Please come by and say hi!
* Oct 19, STREAM workshop
* Oct 20, Findings workshop
* Oct 21, Poster session 2 id #801
* Oct 22, Poster session 4 id #1572 (highlight)
* Oct 19, STREAM workshop
* Oct 20, Findings workshop
* Oct 21, Poster session 2 id #801
* Oct 22, Poster session 4 id #1572 (highlight)
Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!
October 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Super excited to be flying to Hawaii for the first time for #iccv2025. I can't wait to meet old friends and make new ones. Find me at these talks and workshops the first two days!
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Noa Garcia (@noagarciad.bsky.social) from Osaka University will be an invited speaker at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2025. #DLBCN
www.noagarciad.com
www.noagarciad.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Noa Garcia (@noagarciad.bsky.social) from Osaka University will be an invited speaker at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2025. #DLBCN
www.noagarciad.com
www.noagarciad.com
Looks like our paper's fate at NeurIPS has brought new people here, hi everyone! Maybe it's about time to introduce myself 👋
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September 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Looks like our paper's fate at NeurIPS has brought new people here, hi everyone! Maybe it's about time to introduce myself 👋
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Reposted by Noa Garcia
This is not OK.
I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???
I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???
September 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is not OK.
I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???
I don't submit often to NeurIPS, but I reviewed papers for this conference almost every year. As a reviewer, why would I spend time trying to give a fair opinion on papers if it's what happens in the end???
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉
At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!
At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!
September 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Congratulations to everyone who got their @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers accepted 🎉🎉🎉
At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!
At #EurIPS we are looking forward to welcoming presentations of all accepted NeurIPS papers, including a new “Salon des Refusés” track for papers which were rejected due to space constraints!
We are one of the unfortunate papers that didn't make the neurips cut-off despite being originally accepted. Second submission this year that gets rejected from #neurips2025 without any reasonable explanation (the other one was a workshop proposal).
NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We are one of the unfortunate papers that didn't make the neurips cut-off despite being originally accepted. Second submission this year that gets rejected from #neurips2025 without any reasonable explanation (the other one was a workshop proposal).
Department of War. Now with 100% less euphemism. A moment of clarity for research on DoD grants. For even more clarity, check @davidthewid.bsky.social work
Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from...
arxiv.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Department of War. Now with 100% less euphemism. A moment of clarity for research on DoD grants. For even more clarity, check @davidthewid.bsky.social work
Reposted by Noa Garcia
I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...
The Banal Evil of AI Safety
Chatbot companies are harmful and dishonest. How can we hold them accountable?
www.argmin.net
August 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." www.argmin.net/p/the-banal-...
Reposted by Noa Garcia
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Processing and acquisition traces in visual encoders: What does CLIP know about your camera?
@ryan-ramos.bsky.social @stojnicv.xyz @gkordo.bsky.social Yuta Nakashima @gtolias.bsky.social
@noagarciad.bsky.social
tl;dr: CLIP sees difference DSLR vs iphone, DINO doesn't.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.10637
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@ryan-ramos.bsky.social @stojnicv.xyz @gkordo.bsky.social Yuta Nakashima @gtolias.bsky.social
@noagarciad.bsky.social
tl;dr: CLIP sees difference DSLR vs iphone, DINO doesn't.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.10637
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August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Processing and acquisition traces in visual encoders: What does CLIP know about your camera?
@ryan-ramos.bsky.social @stojnicv.xyz @gkordo.bsky.social Yuta Nakashima @gtolias.bsky.social
@noagarciad.bsky.social
tl;dr: CLIP sees difference DSLR vs iphone, DINO doesn't.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.10637
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@ryan-ramos.bsky.social @stojnicv.xyz @gkordo.bsky.social Yuta Nakashima @gtolias.bsky.social
@noagarciad.bsky.social
tl;dr: CLIP sees difference DSLR vs iphone, DINO doesn't.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.10637
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Reposted by Noa Garcia
The deadline for the Algorithmic Collective Action Workshop at NeurIPS'25 has been extended to August 29th! Please consider submitting work about power, control, resistance, and AI: acaworkshop.github.io
About the workshop – ACA@NeurIPS
acaworkshop.github.io
August 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The deadline for the Algorithmic Collective Action Workshop at NeurIPS'25 has been extended to August 29th! Please consider submitting work about power, control, resistance, and AI: acaworkshop.github.io
Reposted by Noa Garcia
Couldn’t be more grateful for this #ICCV2025 collaboration!
It turns out that some vision models have actually been encoding images’ processing and acquisition parameters (e.g., JPEG compression settings, camera model) this whole time
For more info check out @stojnicv.xyz‘s thread!
It turns out that some vision models have actually been encoding images’ processing and acquisition parameters (e.g., JPEG compression settings, camera model) this whole time
For more info check out @stojnicv.xyz‘s thread!
Have you ever asked yourself how much your favorite vision model knows about image capture parameters (e.g., the amount of JPEG compression, the camera model, etc.)? Furthermore, could these parameters influence its semantic recognition abilities?
August 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Couldn’t be more grateful for this #ICCV2025 collaboration!
It turns out that some vision models have actually been encoding images’ processing and acquisition parameters (e.g., JPEG compression settings, camera model) this whole time
For more info check out @stojnicv.xyz‘s thread!
It turns out that some vision models have actually been encoding images’ processing and acquisition parameters (e.g., JPEG compression settings, camera model) this whole time
For more info check out @stojnicv.xyz‘s thread!