Frank Dellaert
@fdellaert.bsky.social
Robotics/Perception Prof at Georgia Tech; Chief AI Officer at Verdant Robotics. Stints at Skydio, B*8, Reality Labs, Google Research. https://dellaert.github.io
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
GTSAM 4.3a0 ! github.com/borglab/gtsa...
Releases · borglab/gtsam
GTSAM is a library of C++ classes that implement smoothing and mapping (SAM) in robotics and vision, using factor graphs and Bayes networks as the underlying computing paradigm rather than sparse m...
github.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
GTSAM 4.3a0 ! github.com/borglab/gtsa...
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I know this look well. It’s the same one I get when I introduce the Fourier transform in my computer vision course to the CS crowd.
May 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I know this look well. It’s the same one I get when I introduce the Fourier transform in my computer vision course to the CS crowd.
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Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
March 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
March 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Part 2 of SLAM handbook is out for public comments! let us know what you think :-) Issue tracker on GitHub awaits! Link: github.com/SLAM-Handboo...
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And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
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Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.
Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More
Today, we're excited to announce the next step in the Project Aria journey: the introduction of Aria Gen 2 research glasses.
www.meta.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Aria Gen 2 is very impressive, with fully onboard SLAM and various other perception all within a 75g device with an hours-long battery life. Processing on custom silicon. Congrats to the Reality Labs team.
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MASt3R-SLAM code release!
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Introducing MASt3R-SLAM, the first real-time monocular dense SLAM with MASt3R as a foundation.
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
February 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
MASt3R-SLAM code release!
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
github.com/rmurai0610/M...
Try it out on videos or with a live camera
Work with
@ericdexheimer.bsky.social*,
@ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Reposted by Frank Dellaert
CRA statement about NSF firings cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
Cuts to NSF and CISE Directorate Jeopardize American Leadership in Computing
A statement from the Computing Research Association (CRA) The reported termination today of 10 percent of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) workforce — including significant cuts to the Compu…
cra.org
February 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
CRA statement about NSF firings cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...
Some personal news: as of January I am back full-time at Georgia Tech following a 2-year leave as Verdant Robotics’ CTO. I will continue to be involved with Verdant as part-time Chief AI Officer, thinking strategically about the role of AI in Robotics for Ag.
February 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Some personal news: as of January I am back full-time at Georgia Tech following a 2-year leave as Verdant Robotics’ CTO. I will continue to be involved with Verdant as part-time Chief AI Officer, thinking strategically about the role of AI in Robotics for Ag.
Gemini is good but too verbose :-)
February 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Gemini is good but too verbose :-)
The visual system of a jumping spider is fascinating. Look at those cones behind the fixed main lenses! The retinas are at the end of the cones. youtu.be/gvN_ex95IcE?...
Yellow amycine jumping spider, Reserva Canadé, Ecuador
YouTube video by wmaddisn
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The visual system of a jumping spider is fascinating. Look at those cones behind the fixed main lenses! The retinas are at the end of the cones. youtu.be/gvN_ex95IcE?...
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We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data.
It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried.
In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried.
In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
February 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data.
It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried.
In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried.
In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.
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Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)
TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)
January 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos
TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)
TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)
That’s such a cool idea! (Thanks K for flagging this to me)
Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them *between train tracks* !!!
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...
January 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
That’s such a cool idea! (Thanks K for flagging this to me)
First iRIM@GT seminar of 2025: Ani Majumdar! Well attended!
January 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
First iRIM@GT seminar of 2025: Ani Majumdar! Well attended!
Sign of the times, in 2025
January 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sign of the times, in 2025
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Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!)
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.
chromewebstore.google.com
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!)
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
3D feed-forward Gaussian Splatting feels like magic, let alone 4D!
STORM: Nvidia paper to directly regress 3D Gaussians + velocities from AV sensor data. Instead of fitting 3D Gaussians to a scene (~30 mins), reconstructs in one forward pass (~200ms).
January 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
3D feed-forward Gaussian Splatting feels like magic, let alone 4D!
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100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.
There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
January 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
100 years ago today, #OTD in 1925, Edwin Hubble announced that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were definitely separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.
There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
There was no doubt that the Universe was more than just our little island of stars. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Just WOW: youtu.be/X2UxtKLZnNo?...
Unitree B2-W Talent Awakening! 🥳
YouTube video by Unitree Robotics
youtu.be
December 24, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Just WOW: youtu.be/X2UxtKLZnNo?...
ChatGPT canvas is cool. Maybe a bit slow still.
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
ChatGPT canvas is cool. Maybe a bit slow still.
Awesome stuff!
Introducing MASt3R-SLAM, the first real-time monocular dense SLAM with MASt3R as a foundation.
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
Easy to use like DUSt3R/MASt3R, from an uncalibrated RGB video it recovers accurate, globally consistent poses & a dense map.
With @ericdexheimer.bsky.social* @ajdavison.bsky.social (*Equal Contribution)
December 17, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Awesome stuff!