Professor in Computer Vision at the University of York, vision/graphics/ML research, Boro @mfc.co.uk fan and climber 📍York, UK 🔗 https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~waps101/https://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3mih2gqh5uc2kExcited to announce our latest (submitted to) SIGBOVIK 2026 @harryqbovik.bsky.social paper: "SchmidhubAI: Accurate Historical Paper Attribution". We built an AI system that, given any modern AI paper, automatically determines which of its ideas were already published by Jürgen Schmidhuber.01 Apr 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih2gqh5uc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3mg5leqxifs2pI am delighted (that pun will make sense in a second) that @alistairfoggin.bsky.social's first paper, CroCoDiLight, has been accepted to ICLR. The idea came from a group discussion on the CroCo paper from @naverlabseurope.bsky.social and realising it might implicitly already understand relighting. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5leqxifs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3mfjus5x4js2xThe LLM obsession with em-dashes has created a weird sort of paradox. I see so much AI generated content that I now see how I should have been using em-dashes all along. But if I start using them, everyone will assume what I've written is AI generated.23 Feb 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjus5x4js2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3m73gypb5rs2kMy students @fhudson.bsky.social and @jadgardner.bsky.social are presenting TAPVid-360 at NeurIPS this week. We introduce an interesting new problem, a benchmark dataset and a baseline adaptation of an existing TAP model for our task. More importantly, they've also created a genre-defining poster... [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Dec 2025 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73gypb5rs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3lov6vrmy2s24Has anyone ever tried a very non-standard tone for a rebuttal? I'm thinking something like "Hey reviewers! Sit back, relax and let me convince you that you actually want to accept this paper..." or "You wouldn't let a little thing like that stop you accepting the paper would you? WOULD YOU?!!!"11 May 2025 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lov6vrmy2s24https://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3llqusyb5hc2oSo, we wrote a neural net library entirely in LaTeX... [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqusyb5hc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3lfosefrd2s2b#CVPR2025 Area Chair update: depending on which time zone the review deadline is specified in, we are past or close to the review deadline. Of the 60 reviews needed for my batch, I currently have 52 and they have been coming in quite fast this morning. In general, review standard looks good.14 Jan 2025 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfosefrd2s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3ldldrijbvs24Me and my friend-since-before-school @ekd.bsky.social (a law academic) have written a blog post about the NotebookLM podcast generator in the style of, well, a corny podcast dialogue: https://slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/turning-scholarship-into-an-engaging-podcast-using-ai-interdisciplinary-perspectives/ 1/518 Dec 2024 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldldrijbvs24https://bsky.app/profile/willsmithvision.bsky.social/post/3lbyqsbh7622bI am a first time Area Chair for #CVPR2025 so, in the interests of transparency, I'll post some updates here on the various stages of the process. There are 708 (!) ACs (not that long ago, CVPR could have coped with 708 *reviewers*!) We've been allocated 18.27 papers on average (I have 20).28 Nov 2024 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:yyw6c7pcf3bwpbkdfokbrlqd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbyqsbh7622b