Rice University, Associate Professor of Computer Science. Computer Vision, Multimodal AI, Deep Learning. Houston, Texas. Check our work at https://vislang.ai/https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3mmcsqnw4qc26Someone here needs to hear this today. Remember to rotate your tires and do alignment once in a while.20 May 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcsqnw4qc26https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lpuppvnbpc24My solidarity to Harvard colleagues and my respect for maintaining dignity during troubled times. Their leadership makes their standing in the global stage well deserved.23 May 2025 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpuppvnbpc24https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lmf7bsmbc22dCappuccino served at the 50th year celebration of the School of Engineering and Computing at Rice.09 Apr 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmf7bsmbc22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3llft3vtumc2gGroup picture with my PhD students #studio-ghibli28 Mar 2025 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3llft3vtumc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lj7i4ifw7c2nI remember when Twitter was this small and familiar. I had/have some followers on Twitter that now are low key celebrities but probably followed me long way back before they became low key celebrities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Feb 2025 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj7i4ifw7c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3li4fp2gmuk2tThere are so many more things to be outraged about at the moment than complaining about federal funding for science. Especially when coming from academics, it is a bit too self-serving at this moment. Yes it is bad and the effects will be long lasting but so will be a dozen other things.14 Feb 2025 04:50 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3li4fp2gmuk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lgtvgtcclc2iI think it’s exciting to see LLMs that are open source and on par with the top models accesible only through APIs. DeepSeek and before that Llama-3.29 Jan 2025 02:13 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtvgtcclc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lfpuo76rgk2nCheck this recent work by my PhD student Moayed. He has been doing amazing work on Generative AI for images, video and audio. We introduce AV-Link ♾️, an unified approach for audio-video generation. Our generated audio is the best in terms of synchronization with video actions. Check thread below. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jan 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpuo76rgk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lfodybfpyk2eI still don’t feel quite more productive in the era of LLMs. There are very few things I can do better but far from what I hear from anecdotes. I wonder what would be the one low hanging fruit I should be delegating to LLMs.14 Jan 2025 03:52 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfodybfpyk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lfdgaharc225Happy New Year Everyone!09 Jan 2025 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdgaharc225https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3ldaazct2w224End of year celebration with the great Moshe Vardi @myvardi.bsky.social is one of the perks of Rice. Hopefully he will be active on Bluesky soon.14 Dec 2024 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldaazct2w224https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lcq4gh3tbk22Had a great time this week visiting the University of Pittsburgh. I had not been to Pittsburgh in 10 years. I hope to be back sooner next time.07 Dec 2024 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcq4gh3tbk22https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lc44fiflyc2yLooks like a fresh start in a new platform does not correct pile on behavior. It is hard to even notice when this is happening especially on one end. We see our own comments but we can’t see the other hundred comments saying the same thing in less polite language.29 Nov 2024 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc44fiflyc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lbwzoqh3ns2uLots of people talking about ICLR reviews. For me the most frustrating these days is when a reviewer declares that a paper has not reached the required bar for acceptance or novelty. As if this was an objective commonly agreed tenant that everyone knows.27 Nov 2024 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbwzoqh3ns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lbt3jtr3ak2eLa Era de la Inteligencia Artificial a short documentary produced by Telemundo Houston won a Lone Star Emmy in the Science category https://www.telemundohouston.com/noticias/tecnologia/ameca-la-era-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/2385084/ https://www.telemundohouston.com/noticias/tecnologia/ameca-la-era-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/2385084/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGwj0VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYfXYFrD5LE4BqXWNguR55VXWqlsnKnfVoYdiBrEGPZh8X4Vj5J6Ypmahg_aem_PT53KwhRmBOBKEOMkcet2Q26 Nov 2024 03:23 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbt3jtr3ak2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lbj64jjxcc2wThe last ten years in computer vision and multimodal AI have been a ride, yet I still feel there's so much more to explore.22 Nov 2024 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbj64jjxcc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lbcwemcybc2zCommon software development advice that says we should write tests before implementations also applies to LLM-generated code. PropTest: Automatic Property Testing for Improved Visual Programming. arxiv.org/pdf/2403.1692119 Nov 2024 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcwemcybc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lbaoqzdogf2uRice’s Computer Science. View outside my office. Not judging just sharing.18 Nov 2024 19:46 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbaoqzdogf2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lb3up2mukv2vBuilding a starter pack in computer vision. I will be adding more people as I encounter them. go.bsky.app/VNSuLYq [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2024 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3up2mukv2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lb3lntdjmz22I never announced on Twitter that I would be leaving and I never really closed my account. Regardless of what is going on, and why. I believe it is healthy that we have several platforms and not just the one. Let’s see how Bluesky goes, it seems to replicate the old Twitter experience the best.16 Nov 2024 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3lntdjmz22https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lb34u22t3k27This year I was invited to attend the Dreamforce event in San Francisco — Salesforce’s biggest yearly event. I met Silvio Savarese and friend Juan Carlos Niebles. Amazing how large industry events are. Research conferences even in ML and CV don’t compare.16 Nov 2024 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb34u22t3k27https://bsky.app/profile/vicenteor.bsky.social/post/3lb2ypvj4vs27Let’s not bring Twitter grudges to Bluesky let’s start with a clean slate here. Thank you.16 Nov 2024 13:29 +0000at://did:plc:hsjymld64qaaewvrklg2stpv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb2ypvj4vs27