Eric Brachmann

⏩ FastForward ⏩ A new model for efficient visual relocalization. Accurate camera poses without building structured 3D maps. nianticspatial.github.io/fastforward/ Work by @axelbarroso.bsky.social, Tommaso Cavallari and Victor Adrian Prisacariu.

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning or computer vision at the University of Edinburgh? My group works on topics related to: * Autonomous Scientific Discovery * Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning * 3D Vision and Robotics * AI for Ecology and Conservation

Who teaches these things? Bad Claude, bad.

It appears that coding agents have been trained on too many SOTA chasing papers, because they latch onto tiny, meaningless improvements in metrics. That's what you get...

One of our NeurIPS reviewers thought our "value [...] is real and well-supported". 🤔 🙈

🚀We have PhD openings in my lab! 3D got pretty interesting :) Generation is getting better, which makes real scenes more interesting: things get used, opened, moved, etc We want to understand that in 3D: function, dynamics, physics 👉apply 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS

Is the world actually in world models? In some ways yes, but maybe not in all ways that matter for physical AI. Learn what Niantic Spatial researchers think about this: www.nianticspatial.com/blog/world-i...

AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak Labels Javier Tirado-Garín, @asavio.bsky.social, Shuai Chen, @axelbarroso.bsky.social, Tommaso Cavallari, @dantkz.bsky.social, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, @ericbrachmann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2609.02798

Welcome to the ECCV 2026 feed! Post and discuss ECCV 2026 papers, workshops, tutorials, talks, and social events. Use #ECCV2026 to make sure your post appears (other variants work too, e.g. #eccv). Link: bsky.app/profile/ekaz.... Please pin 📌 and share! Thanks! Made by @ekazakos.bsky.social.

It's been several weeks since I started my research internship at @nianticspatial.bsky.social in London. Excited to finally work with @ericbrachmann.bsky.social and the team!

ACTUALLY, that very same asteroid was already discovered 1990 by the hobby astronomer, Jürgen S.

I think I am ready to be replaced by AI. My whole mentoring can be summarized by the following expert system: if True: print("Visualize everything.")

I have had 70 co-authors so far. I took some time to wire all these names up with their websites on my personal page. (The BOP papers have been a real pain. 😅) Fun to browse through what all these people have been up to since we collaborated.

We are grateful to all of the 17,491 reviewers who helped make #CVPR2026 possible. We are especially pleased to recognize the following Outstanding Reviewers, whose high-quality reviews (as judged by their Area Chairs) placed them among the top 5% of reviewers. 1/2

Apparently #CVPR2026 had an outstanding AC initiative. Well done, @davidpicard.eurosky.social!

In my team we have two open positions on AI for robotics and in particular on manipulation, for junior and senior researchers. With us, connect fundamental research questions with real operational problems and contribute to emerging AI-driven robotics services. careers.werecruit.io/en/naver-lab...

It seems, that we have failed the communication about IMC26. Let's try again. The competition this year is here: kaggle.com/competitions... No prizes, but whole year leaderboard -- similar to KITTY and other academic competitions. 3D people, please retweet and share.

We were pretty mad at the reviewer but they turned out to be reasonable. I understand the frustration that classical methods are often overlooked. Here, it was a genuine oversight. I did not know the E5+1 solver. Including it made the paper stronger. Full discussion: openreview.net/forum?id=rmD...

FastForward has been accepted to #ICLR2026 and will be presented there next week. If you go, say hi to @axelbarroso.bsky.social. If not, don't fret. Axel has prepared a short video for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Qk...

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Even ScholarInbox wants me to focus. "Today, we found 1 (of 371) articles relevant for you. Relevance: -17"

It's time, dear #CVPR2026 reviewers. Time to decide.

If anything, I suspect that these tools will cover holes with persuasive bla bla. I do not think that authors are doing themselves a favour in the long run. (sorry for quote posting, not allowed to answer...)

Interviews for our 2026 research internships will commence soon. It is not too late to apply! A lot of exciting stuff is happening in 3D vision, let's explore it together.

AC pro tip: When reading reviews, mentally substitute the "confidence" rating (low, medium, high) with "overconfidence", and everything is much better calibrated.

You know what season it is! Right. Internship application season. Niantic Spatial is offering research internships on a multitude of 3D vision topics: relocalization, reconstruction, 3D VLMs... Top tier papers regularly come out of our internships 🚀 nianticspatial.careers.hibob.com/jobs/0fc4871...

Robotics researchers, this is an occasion not to be missed: top-notch speakers in an excellent location in the Alps this February 🤖⛷️ It's the Winter School on Social Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia (SoRAIM), 9-13 Feb 2026 👇

Ah, Warner Bros. buys Netflix. ... Wait, what?

CMT right now.

Recording of the 10th R6D workshop #ICCV2025 w/ results of the 2025 BOP challenge is out: youtu.be/NymS-f4DNh0 3.5h of goodness dedicated to robot-object manipulation w/ Hao-Shu Fang (MIT), Maximilian Durner (DLR), Agastya Kalra+Vahe Taamazyan (Intrinsic) and Sergey Levine (Physical Intelligence)

Of all my multiple Lufthansa flights on this journey, the only one that was punctual was the one with a short connection time, and that I therefore missed due to the previous one being late. Now, after one involuntary overnight stay: delay again. Great job @lufthansagroup.bsky.social