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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jul 2

There’s definitely a connection

Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 13

Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it. @opencv.bsky.social @philnelson.bsky.social

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Check out the video in the first post of the thread to see one of the submissions in action.
The winning teams will be announced at the CVPR 2025 Perception for Industrial Robotics Automation Workshop.

Stay tuned!

Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Some stats:
- 450+ teams registered
- Dozens of teams invested hundreds of hours
- Top 5 submissions were deployed on a real robot using Intrinsic Flowstate + ROS

We tried to pick parts based on participants' predicted poses - live!

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 10

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This is one of the toughest problems in computer vision, and it’s still far from “solved” - especially at the levels of accuracy and robustness required in real industrial settings.

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 10

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Participants were given multi-view, multi-modal images and tasked with training models that not only detect objects, but also predict their full 3D pose.
That means 3D position + rotation - exactly what a robot needs to grasp and manipulate objects accurately.

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Jun 10

This has been one of the most exciting and demanding projects I’ve worked on.

Over the past 6 months, we teamed up with OpenCV, the BOP benchmark, and the CIRP Lab @uhmanoa.bsky.social to run a global challenge on 6DoF pose estimation for complex industrial parts. 🧵

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Apr 1

Want to know if humanoid robots have finally become practical? See if more of them roll smoothly on wheels instead of stumbling around on legs. Until then, they’re stuck in demo mode - not deployment and scaling mode.

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Mar 19

Gotta admit – I enjoy deleting code way more than writing it.

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Mar 14

Ok, someone literally called their paper Foundation X: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09860

arxiv.org

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Mar 12

Having your own pattern is a nice flex, so I’m happy for Bowen actually! :D

Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Mar 12

I only know Bowen Wen’s Foundation Pose and Stereo papers that follow that pattern. What else is there?

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Mar 12

CV/ML paper naming strategies:

- Answering yes to an obvious question? → “Do You Need X for Y?”
- New one-shot model? → “X Anything”
- Overhyping something trivial? → “All You Need Is X”

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Feb 14

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Submissions are open,
We're waiting for you.

A few important updates regarding the Bin Picking Challenge:
opencv.org/blog/importa...

Important Updates: Bin-Picking Challenge Phase 1 Submissions Open & More!

We’re excited to announce several key updates to the Perception Challenge for Bin-Picking aka the Bin-Picking Challenge (BPC)! Phase 1 Submissions Open On February 14th! Get ready to showcase your sol...

opencv.org

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Feb 14

Find more details and apply here:
🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrob...
🔗 job-boards.greenhouse.io/intrinsicrob...

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚀 Internship Opportunity! 🚀

Our small research team is looking for two talented interns to join us! If you're passionate about cutting-edge research at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, this is your chance to contribute to an exciting, high-impact project.

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Vahe Taamazyan @vaheta.bsky.social · Feb 6

Prediction: There’ll be more people calling themselves software developers in 2–3 years than there are now.