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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · 11d

Deadline is approaching. We are looking forward to your submissions!

Sukrut Rao @sukrutrao.bsky.social · 14d

Are you an #XAI researcher attending #ICCV2025? Share your thoughts on the direction of the field at the eXCV Workshop! Talks will be in 5-minute slots.

Submit an outline of what you would like to talk about by September 29: excv-workshop.github.io#call-for-ope...

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Call for Open-Mic Opinions at the eXCV Workshop at ICCV 2025

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · 22d

Organizers:
sukrutrao.bsky.social, robinhesse.bsky.social, qbouniot.bsky.social, swetamahajan.bsky.social, Amin Parchami-Araghi, Jayneel Parekh, @simoneschaub.bsky.social, Florence d'Alché-Buc, zeynepakata.bsky.social, stefanroth.bsky.social, Bernt Schiele

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · 22d

🚀 Open-Mic Opinions! 🚀

We welcome you to voice your opinion on the state of XAI. You get 5 minutes to speak (in-person only) during the workshop.

📷 Submit your proposals here: lnkd.in/d7_EWKXp

For more details: lnkd.in/dpYWVYXS

@iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025 #eXCV

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Organizers:
@sukrutrao.bsky.social , @robinhesse.bsky.social , @qbouniot.bsky.social , @swetamahajan.bsky.social , Amin Parchami-Araghi, Jayneel Parekh, @simoneschaub.bsky.social , Florence d'Alché-Buc, @zeynepakata.bsky.social , @stefanroth.bsky.social , Bernt Schiele

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢 Got questions about the state of XAI in Computer Vision? 💡 Is there a challenge you want to spotlight, a discussion you would like to ignite, or a change you hope to see in the field?

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Call for Questions! 🚨

We are inviting the community and the stakeholders to submit questions, which will be discussed with our experts at the workshop! 🎤💡

👉 Submit your questions: forms.gle/8cYb4Ce3dGHi...

Workshop: excv-workshop.github.io

@iccv.bsky.social
#ICCV2025 #eXCV

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Sukrut Rao @sukrutrao.bsky.social · Aug 14

Are you an XAI researcher attending #ICCV2025? Submit your recently published work — at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc. — to the eXCV Workshop for the opportunity to further showcase your work! Published papers can be submitted as is, no rewriting necessary.

@iccv.bsky.social

eXCV Workshop at ICCV 2025, Submission deadline August 15.

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Organizers:
@sukrutrao.bsky.social, @robinhesse.bsky.social ,
@qbouniot.bsky.social , @swetamahajan.bsky.social , Amin Parchami-Araghi Jayneel Parekh, @simoneschaub.bsky.social , Florence d'Alché-Buc, @zeynepakata.bsky.social , @stefanroth.bsky.social , Bernt Schiele

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨Deadline Approaching! 🚨

Non-Proceedings track closes in 2 days!

Be sure to submit on time!

We are awaiting your submissions!

More info at: excv-workshop.github.io

@iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025 #eXCV

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Organizers:
@sukrutrao.bsky.social, @robinhesse.bsky.social, @qbouniot.bsky.social, @swetamahajan.bsky.social, Amin Parchami-Araghi, Jayneel Parekh, @simoneschaub.bsky.social, Florence d'Alché-Buc,
@zeynepakata.bsky.social, @stefanroth.bsky.social, Bernt Schiele

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨Deadline Extension Alert!

Our Non-proceedings track is open till August 15th for the eXCV workshop at ICCV.

Our nectar track accepts published papers, as is.

More info at: excv-workshop.github.io

@iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Introducing the speakers for the eXCV workshop at ICCV, Hawaii. Get ready for many stimulating and insightful talks and discussions.

Our Non-proceedings track is still open!

Paper submission deadline: July 18, 2025

More info at: excv-workshop.github.io

@iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025

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#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social · Jun 25

#ICCV2025 decisions have been released!

They are going out in batches to manage server load, so please be patient :)

A huge thank you to our entire community—authors, reviewers, and area chairs—for your hard work.

Congratulations to everyone whose paper was accepted!

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#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social · Jun 25

Following #CVPR2025, #ICCV2025 implemented a new policy targeting accountability and integrity. PCs identified 25 highly irresponsible reviewers, resulting in the desk rejection of 29 associated papers, including 12 submissions that otherwise would have been accepted.

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Come on, bring your best work to eXCV workshop at ICCV and see you in Hawaii!

@iccv.bsky.social #ICCV2025

Robin Hesse @robinhesse.bsky.social · Jun 26

Got a strong XAI paper rejected from ICCV? Submit it to our ICCV eXCV Workshop today—we welcome high-quality work!
🗓️ Submissions open until June 26 AoE.
📄 Got accepted to ICCV? Congrats! Consider our non-proceedings track.
#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Submission Deadline is extended by 6 days.

#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Join us in advancing explainability in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI! We welcome papers on novel explanation methods, scaling existing xAI approaches, innovations for foundational models, and beyond.

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#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social · Jun 19

#CVPR2025 provided coaching for all orals. Do you think the talks were improved compared to last year?

* Better than last year
* About the same
* Worse than last year

Share your thoughts in the thread!

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Organizers:
@sukrutrao.bsky.social, @robinhesse.bsky.social, @qbouniot.bsky.social, @swetamahajan.bsky.social, Amin Parchami-Araghi, Jayneel Parekh, @simoneschaub.bsky.social, Florence d'Alché-Buc, @zeynepakata.bsky.social, @stefanroth.bsky.social, Bernt Schiele

Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Call for papers is out for the 2nd Explainable Computer Vision - Quo Vadis?  (eXCV) workshop in #XAI at #ICCV2025!

More details can be found here: excv-workshop.github.io
Submission Site: Coming Soon!

@iccv.bsky.social @xai-research.bsky.social

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Sweta Mahajan @swetamahajan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Join us in advancing explainability in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI! We welcome papers on novel explanation methods, scaling existing xAI approaches, innovations for foundational models, and beyond.

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Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · Jun 11

Thread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀

👏 Big congrats to everyone! Keep an eye out at #CVPR2025 🌟

#MPI-INF #D2 #ComputerVision #AI #PhD #ML

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Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · Jun 11

7/ 🧵 Discover-then-Name: Task-Agnostic Concept Bottlenecks via Automated Concept Discovery
Authors: S. Rao, S. Mahajan, M. Böhle, B. Schiele
🔍 Explore sparse autoencoders to automatically extract and name concepts, enabling performance improvements on downstream tasks.
📚 arxiv.org/abs/2407.14499

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