Robert Pless
@rbpless
Professor at GWU, Developer of @traffickcam and @projectRephoto, mercenary interest in glitter and contemporary art. BlueSky: @pless.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that GWU is hosting a World Bank Symposium on AI & the Future of Human Capital. For those not steeped in the development, Human Capital == people’s skills, knowledge, and health worldbank.org/en/events/2025… Some flexibility in the deadline may be possible.
This is what I’ve been up to the last year! Building the largest remote observatory in the world (By quantity of scopes)
Question: Does anyone have a pre-computed FAISS indices for large datasets (e.g. LAION 2B, 5B) that have been used to train CLIP-like models, and would be willing to share the index or access for queries? The one below doesn't seem to work anymore: knn5.laion.ai/knn-service
I'm lucky to get to work on important problems with really great researchers. @abby621 is talking about our research on image search tools to support sex trafficking investigations tomorrow (wednesday) at noon eastern time, link in the following post: bsky.app/profile/astyli…
Thank you for everything you did this year. The Program Chairs for the next couple of conferences are lucky to have you!
Having served as Technical Chair for CVPR 2024, I was appointed to serve as Technical Chair for - CVPR 2025 - 2027 - ICCV 2025, 2027, and 2029 I am so excited to work for @CVPR & @ICCVConference and keep improving the review systems! 🔥🔥
The @CVPR AI Art Gallery is now live 🤖🎨 Featuring 115+ artworks using or about computer vision😎 View them here: thecvf-art.com #AIart #CVPR2024
At the AI Aspirations event in the old Newseum building. I love being in DC @GWtweets and finding ways to understand what AI research is most important.
We are thrilled to share our groundbreaking paper published today in @Nature: "Low Latency Automotive Vision with Event Cameras." Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… Video: youtu.be/dwzGhMQCc4Y Code & Dataset: github.com/uzh-rpg/dagr Frame-based sensors such as the RGB cameras…
Capturing the beauty of @gloverpark, DC: bsky.app/profile/pless.…
The GIF compression kind of eats it up in the full crop, but there was a brief green flash captured just above the Moon's limb
#gloverpark, home to the best tree! @StoddertNews @gloverpark
I was able to take a photo of a rare Wood Stork at Hontoon Island. These birds have suffered from the destruction and degradation of our state’s wetlands. Today, the Wood Stork is classified as “Threatened” by the State of Florida and the federal government.