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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 1d

The PhD graduation season in the team goes on!
Today, Corentin Sautier is defending his PhD on "Learning Actionable LiDAR Representations without Annotations".
Good luck! 🚀

Tetiana Martyniuk @t-martyniuk.bsky.social · 1d

Another great event for @valeoai.bsky.social team: a PhD defense of Corentin Sautier.

His thesis «Learning Actionable LiDAR Representations w/o Annotations» covers the papers BEVContrast (learning self-sup LiDAR features), SLidR, ScaLR (distillation), UNIT and Alpine (solving tasks w/o labels).

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 2d

“Has anyone heard about DUSt3R?”
All hands and hearts up in the room.
Honored to welcome @gabrielacsurka.bsky.social today to speak about the amazing work @naverlabseurope.bsky.social towards 3D Foundation Models

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 2d

It’s PhD graduation season in the team!

Today, @bjoernmichele.bsky.social is defending his PhD on "Domain Adaptation for 3D Data"
Best of luck! 🚀

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to our lab colleagues who have been named Outstanding Reviewers at #ICCV2025 👏

Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social
Anh-Quan Cao @anhquancao.bsky.social
Renaud Marlet
Eloi Zablocki @eloizablocki.bsky.social

@iccv.bsky.social
iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

2025 ICCV Program Committee

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 14d

PPT: Pretraining with Pseudo-Labeled Trajectories for Motion Forecasting

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.06491

by Y. Xu, @yuanyinnn.bsky.social, @eloizablocki.bsky.social, @tuanhungvu.bsky.social , @alexandreboulch.bsky.social, M. Cord

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 14d

VaViM & VaVAM: Autonomous Driving through Video Generative Modeling

🔗 Project page: valeoai.github.io/vavim-vavam/
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15672
💻 Code: github.com/valeoai/Vide...

by F. Bartoccioni, E. Ramzi, et al.

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · 14d

CoRL 2025 is just around the corner in Seoul, Korea!

🤖 🚗

We're excited to present our latest research and connect with the community.

#CoRL2025

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Jul 8

We're thrilled to join the ambitious ELLIOT project towards European large open-multimodal foundation models.
The project kick-off is today!

ELLIOT Project @elliot-eu.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚀 A new era in European #AIresearch begins!

ELLIOT is a €25M #HorizonEurope project launching July 2025 to build open, trustworthy Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models.
30 partners, 12 countries, EU values.

🔗 Press release: apigateway.agilitypr.com/distribution...

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ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI @elsa-ai.eu · Jun 17

ELSA will be extended!🎉
The European Commission decided to extend the duration of our Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI. We will now run for an additional 12 months until August 2026.

Find more details in the official press release:
elsa-ai.eu/official-ext...
Congratulations to the network!

ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI extended until August 2026

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Jun 27

Check out our MOCA self-supervised learning approach unifying the learning principles of both discriminative & masked image modelling paradigms.
With a non-linear path, MOCA has been accepted at #TMLR and presented in the TMLR poster session at #iclr2025

Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/ New & old work on self-supervised representation learning (SSL) with ViTs:
MOCA ☕ - Predicting Masked Online Codebook Assignments w/ @spyrosgidaris.bsky.social O. Simeoni, A. Vobecky, @matthieucord.bsky.social, N. Komodakis, @ptrkprz.bsky.social #TMLR #ICLR2025
Grab a ☕ & brace for a story & a🧵

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Andrei Bursuc @abursuc.bsky.social · Jun 25

Check out DIP (Dense In-context Post-training) @iccv.bsky.social: an effective post-training strategy to unleash dense awareness of features from your favorite pre-trained encoder (DINOv2, CLIP, MAE)
We leverage meta-learning-like pseudo-tasks w/ pseudo-labels.
Kudos @ssirko.bsky.social 👇
#iccv2025

Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko 🇺🇦 @ssirko.bsky.social · Jun 25

1/n 🚀New paper out - accepted at #ICCV2025!

Introducing DIP: unsupervised post-training that enhances dense features in pretrained ViTs for dense in-context scene understanding

Below: Low-shot in-context semantic segmentation examples. DIP features outperform DINOv2!

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Jun 25

How to make your DINOv2 excel at dense in-context scene understanding tasks.
Check out DIP an effective post-training strategy by @ssirko.bsky.social @spyrosgidaris.bsky.social ‬
@vobeckya.bsky.social ‬@abursuc.bsky.social and Nicolas Thome 👇
#iccv2025

Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko 🇺🇦 @ssirko.bsky.social · Jun 25

1/n 🚀New paper out - accepted at #ICCV2025!

Introducing DIP: unsupervised post-training that enhances dense features in pretrained ViTs for dense in-context scene understanding

Below: Low-shot in-context semantic segmentation examples. DIP features outperform DINOv2!

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Jun 23

Hey #IV2025, @t-martyniuk.bsky.social is presenting her LiDPM work today!
tl;dr: LiDPM - a point diffusion strategy for scene completion from outdoor LiDAR point clouds.
Check out the paper and code below if you can't make it for the poster.

Tetiana Martyniuk @t-martyniuk.bsky.social · Jun 23

Presenting our project #LiDPM in the afternoon oral session at #IV2025!

Project page: astra-vision.github.io/LiDPM/

w/ @gillespuy.bsky.social, @alexandreboulch.bsky.social, Renaud Marlet, Raoul de Charette

Also, see our poster at 3pm in the Caravaggio room and AMA 😉

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Paul Couairon @paulcouairon.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚀Thrilled to introduce JAFAR—a lightweight, flexible, plug-and-play module that upsamples features from any Foundation Vision Encoder to any desired output resolution (1/n)

Paper : arxiv.org/abs/2506.11136
Project Page: jafar-upsampler.github.io
Github: github.com/PaulCouairon...

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just back from CVPR@Paris 🥐, what a fantastic event!

Great talks, great posters, and great to connect with the French & European vision community.
Kudos to the organizers, hoping that it returns next year! 🤞

#CVPR2025 @cvprconference.bsky.social

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Apr 27

Great to see our team presenting their work at #ICLR2025!
Here are a few moments captured from the conference. 📸

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valeo.ai @valeoai.bsky.social · Apr 14

👏 Huge congrats to our research scientist Elias Ramzi for winning the AFRIF 2024 PhD award for his thesis "Robust image retrieval with deep learning", conducted at CNAM. Well deserved recognition for amazing work! 🏆

🔗 afrif.irisa.fr?page_id=54

Lauréats des prix de thèse AFRIF – AFRIF

afrif.irisa.fr

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