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Serge Belongie

Serge Belongie

@serge.belongie.com

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Professor, University Of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 PI @belongielab.org 🕵️‍♂️ Director @aicentre.dk 🤖 Board member @ellis.eu 🇪🇺 Formerly: Cornell, Google, UCSD

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Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech, where he also served as Associate Dean. He has also been a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning, specifically object recognition and image segmentation, with his scientific research in these areas cited over 150,000 times according to Google Scholar. Along with Jitendra Malik, Belongie proposed the concept of shape context, a widely used feature descriptor in object recognition. He has co-founded several startups in the areas of computer vision and object recognition. .. more

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

The attached plot (h/t Nano Banana) illustrates this idea with a handful of examples.

If you're reading this and you've got something cooking, where does it fall on this plot?

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

The LFG scale also ranges from 1 to 9, and represents organizational will, from low-stakes exploration (LFG 1) to Manhattan Project intensity (LFG 9).

If TRL is the potential energy, then LFG is the kinetic energy.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

The TRL (Technology Readiness Level) scale ranges from 1 to 9, and captures a technology's maturity, from basic research (TRL 1) to proven, operational use (TRL 9). It's a useful ladder when talking about innovation, but I propose that we combine it with a new LFG (Let's F@&king Go!) scale.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

During the train ride home, I noodled on an idea that you might find useful for mapping innovation and hustle. Those who attended the ELLIS Institute Finland launch event might recall Max Welling and me riffing on this idea during a fireside chat with Peter Sarlin 🚀

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

I attended the WASP – Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program Winter Conference in Örebro earlier this week, and came away from it inspired by the excellent research from the students in their PhD school and the real world impact of their alumni in industry and startups.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11h

The TRL vs. LFG Matrix: Mapping Tech Maturity & Organizational Will

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d

“AI is everywhere, but it is not everything”

Amy Loutfi kicks off the 2026 WASP – Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program Winter Conference in Örebro

Reposted by Serge Belongie

FGVC Workshop @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social · 4d

FGVC's not dead!

The 13th Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization has been accepted to CVPR 2026, in Denver, Colorado!

CALL FOR PAPERS: sites.google.com/view/fgvc13/

From Ecology to Medical Imagining, join us as we tackle the long tail and the limits of visual discrimination! #CVPR2026 #AI

Reposted by Serge Belongie

ELLIS @ellis.eu · 10d

🎬 EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference aftermovie - Relive the first @euripsconf.bsky.social in Copenhagen, a community-driven, NeurIPS-endorsed milestone for Europe’s AI community.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaC...

📖 More: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...

⏰ Last call to host #EurIPS2026: ellis.eu/news/eurips-...

EurIPS & ELLIS UnConference 2025 - Copenhagen 🇩🇰

YouTube video by ELLIS

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Serge Belongie

Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 12d

We have two open PhD positions at the interface of AI and ecology. Start dates are Sept 2026.

We are looking for candidates with a background in AI/CS, Math, Stats, or Physics that are passionate about solving challenging problems in these domains.

Application deadline is in two weeks.

Reposted by Serge Belongie, Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz, Benjamin Wildermuth

Toke Thomas Høye @tokehoye.bsky.social · 15d

📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January!
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Harnessing the power of AI for biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks - From foundation model to edge processing

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

The multiparty meeting booking problem is at least as hard as autonomous driving, modulo the risk of bodily injury.

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

4. Who’s sacrificing by making time slots available outside regular work hours/during family time?
5. Did anyone reply to the poll request with a calendly link?

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

1. Who made & sent the doodle poll?
2. Who didn’t respond to the poll?
3. Did anyone sidestep the poll and reply “my schedule is complicated; we’ll figure something out?”

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

Ponder these questions next time you find yourself in a meeting scheduling thread (not counting within-org booking or people with PAs):

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

My conclusion: calendar booking is 1% about technology and 99% about power.

Modern GenAI has nailed the 1% part, but nothing has changed about the rest of it.

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 29d

I bookmarked this post on Quora ~8 years ago when a small startup called x.ai launched a calendar booking assistant/bot named Amy Ingram. While I only tried their system for a handful of experiments, the lukewarm review below matched my impressions of its capability.

Reposted by Serge Belongie

Nico Lang @nicolang.bsky.social · Dec 16

What if we could see between the pixels? We’ve been working on a new approach to super-resolve images by combining multiple low-resolution views of the same scene.

Project page: sjyhne.github.io/superf/
Preprint: www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.09115
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/sjyhn...

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 16

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adn 👣 @adnrv.bsky.social · Dec 12

This should be move up in the selection criteria.

I will be planning my year around EurIPS, it seems 🍻

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · Dec 12

Coming off the #EurIPS high — let’s keep the momentum going!

👀 We’re looking for a host team + venue for EurIPS 2026 that can support a unified budget, big workshop participation & smooth logistics.

❗Deadline: Jan 15th
🔎Details: https://bit.ly/4q4OrXO

EurIPS 2026: Call for Expressions of Interest & Venue Proposals

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CopeNLU @copenlu.bsky.social · Dec 9

CopeNLU had a blast attending @euripsconf.bsky.social last week -- thanks so much to the organisers (Søren Hauberg, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Schölkopf, Aasa Feragen) for putting this together! Non-scientific highlights were clearly the banquet dinner & the specially brewed EurIPA.

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 8

Seminar by @loicland.bsky.social @imagineenpc.bsky.social on recent advances in geospatial machine learning, including biomass estimation, at @aicentre.dk

www.aicentre.dk/events/20251...

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Dec 6

We are off to a great start with our first set of 9 #EurIPS workshops! the lecture rooms are buzzing and conversations are flowing at our three different workshop locations!

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 5

EurIPA! 🍻

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Dec 5

To celebrate the closing of our inaugural conference, we have asked our friends at Slowburn Brewing Co-op to help commemorate this event. Together we have come up with the EurIPA – The Last Session, a lovely session IPA🍻

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Dec 5

To celebrate the closing of our inaugural conference, we have asked our friends at Slowburn Brewing Co-op to help commemorate this event. Together we have come up with the EurIPA – The Last Session, a lovely session IPA🍻

Reposted by Serge Belongie

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Dec 5

The panel discussion on the Future of AI conferences in Europe is happening now! It features Aasa Feragen, Søren Hauberg, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Scholkopf, Ben Glocker and @philiptorr.bsky.social

Reposted by Serge Belongie

EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · Dec 4

We are 7 hours into today's program, but we are not done yet! In just a few minutes Michael Jordan will be giving today's second #EurIPS keynote on "A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI". So load up on coffee and see you there! ☕

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 3

Spotted on the speaker’s display: “No Notes” indeed!

Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · Dec 3

A few photos from the @ellis.eu UnConference 2025 opening remarks by @vincefort.bsky.social and Søren Hauberg