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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 · 2d
Here’s the latest example. It’s the people, stupid. If you must anthropomorphize the AI, then consider it the useful idiot. It does not plot. It does not deceive.
Exclusive | Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 2d
How it started / How it’s going

See you in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰

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#EurIPS #NeurIPS

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Olof Mogren @mogren.ml · 2d
Come work with my team in Sweden on machine learning for remote sensing and urban climate resilience! www.ri.se/sv/om-rise/j...

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
Cool new work from UoE, Cornell, and UMass evaluating models of human visual learning
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From medicine to geo-guessing, humans can get incredibly good at solving visual recognition tasks.
But how is this skill learned, and can we model its progression?
We present CleverBirds, accepted #NeurIPS2025, a large-scale benchmark for visual knowledge tracing.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2511.08512
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CleverBirds: A Multiple-Choice Benchmark for Fine-grained Human Knowledge Tracing
Mastering fine-grained visual recognition, essential in many expert domains, can require that specialists undergo years of dedicated training. Modeling the progression of such expertize in humans rema...
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Leonie Bossemeyer @bossemel.bsky.social · 3d
From medicine to geo-guessing, humans can get incredibly good at solving visual recognition tasks.
But how is this skill learned, and can we model its progression?
We present CleverBirds, accepted #NeurIPS2025, a large-scale benchmark for visual knowledge tracing.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2511.08512
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CleverBirds: A Multiple-Choice Benchmark for Fine-grained Human Knowledge Tracing
Mastering fine-grained visual recognition, essential in many expert domains, can require that specialists undergo years of dedicated training. Modeling the progression of such expertize in humans rema...
arxiv.org

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
The problem is us, with our Paleolithic vulnerabilities, our FOMO, our susceptibility to snake oil salesmen and the ELIZA effect. Say no to anthropomorphized tech solutionism and yes to stronger human institutions, fortified by ordinary technology. (11/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
AI-based tools — even terribly unsophisticated ones — have dramatically lowered the barrier of entry for bad actors to do harm. (10/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
The fundamental problems remain. Bad software leads to bad outcomes. Phishing, grifting, misinformation, scams, and other con jobs threaten us from all sides, like nitrogen runoff encroaching upon a lake. (9/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
If we, as a society, hand the keys to agentic software, and erode the classic lines of defense that humans have built up for decades in cybersecurity and institutional best practices, then we deserve whatever sad apocalypse ensues. (8/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
As Anders Søgaard noted, Animal Behavior researchers have wrestled with the anthropomorphism challenge, and so should we. (7/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
(2) “AI minus Bullshit equals Ordinary Technology.” We need to stop using anthropomorphic terms when we talk about AI. Yes, AI researchers themselves started it, going back decades, but times change, and we need to correct course. (6/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
With that foundation in place, the use of AI as a tool in capable human hands could lead to abundance in various sectors, thereby building up defenses against some of our less desirable Stone Age impulses. (5/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
On the bright side, I think there is a lot we can do in the second category: we can build better institutions. We can build them upon a foundation of trust, safety, and functioning democracy. (4/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
What can we do about this? With regard to the first one, I would say: not much. For the last one, as scientists, we can do our best to demystify technology — while preserving a sense of awe and wonder — but the forces against this appear insurmountable. (3/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
(1) E. O. Wilson once remarked that “the real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” (2/11)

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 3d
Here are a couple of the points I made during yesterday’s Algoritmer, Data og Demokrati - ADD projektet Partnerkonference (Link: algoritmer.org/aktiviteter/...) (1/11)

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 3d
AND WE ARE FULLY SOLD OUT!

We have now sold out, with 3 weeks still to go before #EurIPS kicks off. We are looking immensely forward to seeing you all in lovely Copenhagen, sharing and exploring top-tier AI research in Europe.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 4d
Link to application portal:
Harnessing the power of AI for biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks - From foundation model to edge processing
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 4d
Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 4d
The #EurIPS Salon des Refusés posters are now online!

If you want your rejected NeurIPS paper featured, dont worry! You can still apply, but posters will be accepted on a rolling basis until the session is filled or Friday the 14th Nov, whichever comes first.

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A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 4d
Doomers, Bloomers, Deemers, Bleemers

Read about Søgaard’s AGI matrix in our new CAISA Research Brief: Artificial General Intelligence and its Societal Implications caisa.dk/forskning

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 5d
Interview from last week’s AI in Science summit in Copenhagen ais25.eu
Europe’s Win and Worry with Artificial Intelligence
Launch of RAISE – the Resource for AI Science in Europe.
www.sciencestories.dk

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 5d
👋 Meet the ELLIS Board!

We're kicking off the series with @serge.belongie.com, ELLIS Board Pres, Director at @aicentre.dk & Prof at the Uni Copenhagen 🇩🇰.

He tackles rapid-fire AI questions—from AGI to algorithms—& recommends this paper: peterfmichael.com/nci

Watch now 👉 youtu.be/Hj9A59EPGzM
Meet the Board: Serge Belongie (ELLIS Board President | Pioneer Centre for AI, Uni Copenhagen)
YouTube video by ELLIS
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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 6d
A fascinating and historic panel discussion with six of the recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, honoring the critical interplay between Algorithms, Data, and Compute that gave rise to today’s remarkable advances in AI and Machine Learning
The Minds of Modern AI: Jensen Huang, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun & the AI Vision of the Future
YouTube video by FT Live
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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 8d
We are happy to share a tentative program for the #EurIPS conference!
We will have 6 fully packed days, spanning the @ellis.eu UnConference, EurIPS conference, and the 18 EurIPS workshops.

See you in Copenhagen!

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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 8d
1500 TICKETS SOLD 🎟️

It is hard to believe but we now have 1500 registered attendees, all within little more than 1 month!

We would have been sold out but thanks to our sponsors we are able to offer a few more seats, so go register now if you haven't already 📢

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EurIPS Copenhagen 2025 - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 15d
The #EurIPS team is working hard on settling the program for the our upcoming conference. Therefore, we are also announcing that Oral and Spotlight NeurIPS papers signed up to #EurIPS after the 10th November will be assigned as a poster presentation. So hurry up if you have an oral/spotlight paper!
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EurIPS Conference @euripsconf.bsky.social · 18d
We are really looking forward to #EuRIPS in just 5 weeks!

We want to take the time to thank all of our sponsors, and especially our Foundation sponsors. Without all of their support #EurIPS would not be a possibility.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 19d
The ELLIS Society welcomes its new Board. As the primary decision-making body, it will play a vital role in shaping the future of ELLIS and advancing #AI and #MachineLearning research across Europe in a time of global change.

Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 21d
Nice writeup in @caltech.edu news about the impact of the #Visipedia project in Computer Vision and Citizen Science
Pietro Perona's Vision: Visipedia and Its Lasting Impact on Computer Vision
The machine learning-driven system for identifying visual information has grown the citizen-science apps Merlin and iNaturalist, led to the development of key datasets, and jump-started the field of i...
www.eas.caltech.edu