KAUST Vision CAIR group

KAUST VISION CAIR (Computer Vision, Core AI Research) group led by Prof. @moElhoseiny. @KAUST_News

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

Prof @haosu_twitr sharing insights on training free generation using 3d diffusion. C3DV workshop at CVPR.

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

Prof. Angel Chang of SFU sharing her journey on compositional scene generation at C3DV workshop @CVPR

[KAUST Vision CAIR group @KAUSTVisionCAIR]

Join us for the Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision (C3DV) #CVPR2025! @CVPR

🏆 Challenges: https://t.co/r8Vwf76LUt
📢 Call for Papers: https://t.co/lepeqixKTp

C3DV will feature two exciting challenges and a fantastic lineup of speakers!

🧵👇

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

The C3DV @CVPR is starting at 8:15. Please join us,

Where: Room 110 B, Music City Center, Nashville

Zoom link is accessible through CVPR for registered participants, excellent lineup of speakers!

[KAUST CEMSE @KAUST_CEMSE]

200+ students from across Saudi Arabia explored #AI through art, music & design at the SAAI Factory Hackathon for Kids at #KAUST.

Their projects tackled inclusion, climate change & immersive learning—blending creativity with tech.

Learn more: https://t.co/sp7uFJsT51

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

#ICLR 2025

🚀 Excited to share that three papers have been accepted at ICLR 2025! 🎉 Huge thanks to my incredibly talented students and collaborators for their dedication and hard work—this wouldn't have been possible without you!

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

@ICLR25: @KAUSTVisionCAIR’s wenxuan zhang and @ben_nebulous are presenting BFPO and Toddler diffusion this morning; posters 277 and 280 Hall 2; stop by to learn more about carefully modeling the dichotomy of safety and helpfulness and more interpretable and efficient diffusion.

[KAUST Vision CAIR group @KAUSTVisionCAIR]

@CVPR @HaoSuLabUCSD @tolga_birdal 👥 This workshop is organized by: @habib__slim, @Meh_Mo0d, Abdulwahab Felemban, Wolfgang Heidrich, @vaphab, @natalianeverova, Junjie Fei, Xiang Li, @peter_wonka, and @moelhoseiny

#CVPR2025 #3DVision #CVPR @CVPR

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[KAUST Vision CAIR group @KAUSTVisionCAIR]

Join us for the Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision (C3DV) #CVPR2025! @CVPR

🏆 Challenges: https://t.co/r8Vwf76LUt
📢 Call for Papers: https://t.co/lepeqixKTp

C3DV will feature two exciting challenges and a fantastic lineup of speakers!

🧵👇

[KAUST Vision CAIR group @KAUSTVisionCAIR]

@CVPR @HaoSuLabUCSD @tolga_birdal 🏆 We are also hosting two 3D vision challenges this year! This year's highlight: the 3DCoMPaT-200 Challenge and the Language-Based Part Grounding Challenge, focusing on 3D object composition and understanding.

📥 C3DV Challenges: https://t.co/r8Vwf76LUt

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[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

📌 Paper 3: Query-based Knowledge Transfer for Heterogeneous Learning Environments
@Norah Alballa, Wenxuan Zhang,@Ziquan Liu. Mohamed Elhoseiny. Marco Canini

✅ This paper introduces Query-based Knowledge Transfer (QKT), a novel framework for decentralized collaborative learning

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

📌 Paper 2: Bi-Factorial Preference Optimization (BFPO): Balancing Safety-Helpfulness in Language Models
by Wenxuan Zhang, Philip Torr, Mohamed Elhoseiny*, Adel Bibi*,

✅ BFPO is a supervised learning framework that reformulates RLHF’s joint objective of safety and helpfulness..

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

...into interpretable stages (e.g., contours, palettes, textures) and leverages Schrödinger Bridge optimal transport for seamless transitions between modalities, enhancing control and flexibility in the generation process.

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

📌 Paper 1: ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
by Eslam Bakr, Liangbing Zhao, Tao HU, Matthieu Cord, Patrick Pérez, Mohamed Elhoseiny
✅This paper introduces a new diffusion framework that decomposes RGB image generation

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

Excellent collaboration with an amazing team at Meta. Huge thanks to @YoungXiong1 for hosting @xiaoqian_shen's internship!
@liuzhuang1234,@Hu_Hsu
@garvinchen2,@klightlm
@zechunliu,@balakrishnan_vr
@Fanyi_Xiao,@hyunwoojkim
@bilgeesra,@raghuraman,@vikasc

[Mohamed Elhoseiny @moElhoseiny]

Join us tomorrow 8:30-1pm; panel will start 11:50am

[Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery]

@hannah_kerner speaking now at the @CV4E_ECCV workshop on the future of geospatial foundation models for the earth 🌍🤩

[Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery]

It's a full house!