2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
Happy holidays! We’ll be sharing snippets from Latent Space LIVE! through the break bringing you the best of 2024! We want to express our deepest appreciation to event sponsors AWS, Daylight Computer, Thoth.ai, StrongCompute, Notable Capital, and most of all all our LS supporters who helped fund the gorgeous venue and A/V production!
For NeurIPS last year we did our standard conference podcast coverage interviewing selected papers (that we have now also done for ICLR and ICML), however we felt that we could be doing more to help AI Engineers 1) get more industry-relevant content, and 2) recap 2024 year in review from experts. As a result, we organized the first Latent Space LIVE!, our first in person miniconference, at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver.
The single most requested domain was computer vision, and we could think of no one better to help us recap 2024 than our friends at Roboflow, who was one of our earliest guests in 2023 and had one of this year’s top episodes in 2024 again. Roboflow has since raised a $40m Series B!
Links
Their slides are here:
All the trends and papers they picked:
* Isaac Robinson
* Sora (see our Video Diffusion pod) - extending diffusion from images to video
* SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (see our SAM2 pod) - extending prompted masks to full video object segmentation
* DETR Dominancy: DETRs show Pareto improvement over YOLOs
* RT-DETR: DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-time Object Detection
* LW-DETR:A Transformer Replacement to YOLO for Real-Time Detection
* D-FINE: Redefine Regression Task in DETRs as Fine-grained Distribution Refinement
* Peter Robicheaux
* MMVP (Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs)
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* Florence 2 (Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks)
* PalíGemma / PaliGemma 2
* PaliGemma: A versatile 3B VLM for transfer
* PaliGemma 2: A Family of Versatile VLMs for Transfer
* AlMv2 (Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders)
* Vik Korrapati - Moondream
Full Talk on YouTube
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Transcript/Timestamps
[00:00:00] Intro
[00:00:05] AI Charlie: welcome to Latent Space Live, our first mini conference held at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver. This is Charlie, your AI co host. When we were thinking of ways to add value to our academic conference coverage, we realized that there was a lack of good talks, just recapping the best of 2024, going domain by domain.
[00:00:36] AI Charlie: We sent out a survey to t
