Adam Schmidt

AI Research Scientist @Intuitive; PhD @UBC. Real-time medical computer vision (surface reconstruction, mapping, tracking, rendering) for improved outcomes.

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

Submit a method for point tracking in surgery!
Post-challenge submissions for STIR 2025 close on December 15th.
Details here: https://t.co/4MKhSJdE8i

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

STIR Challenge 2025 is a wrap!
Slides here: https://t.co/4MKhSJd6iK
If you submitted and want to update, or if you didn't make it in time: you have until December 15th to participate!

Thanks to our sponsors @IntuitiveSurg @ImFusionGmbH , and my co-organizer, @mertkaraoglu

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

STIR Challenge 2025 is a wrap!
Slides here: https://t.co/4MKhSJd6iK
If you submitted and want to update, or if you didn't make it in time: you have until December 15th to participate!

Thanks to our sponsors @IntuitiveSurg @ImFusionGmbH , and my co-organizer, @mertkaraoglu

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

#MICCAI2025 folks interested in tracking + endoscopy! The STIR Challenge is tomorrow at 11:15, Sep. 27 in DCC1-2F-209-210-211. Refer to the #EndoVis program here: https://t.co/0n4y59X856

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

Our point tracking in surgery challenge deadline has been extended to August 31! See details above.

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

2025 STIR challenge update:
- prizes posted
- validation is open
Modify, train, tweak any tracker of your choice and submit it!
Register at https://t.co/gEM69Y80FQ to participate
Final submissions are due August 20.
#MICCAI2025 #EndoVis @endo_vis
@IntuitiveSurg
@ImFusionGmbH

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

FYI we're doing the challenge again! Don't worry about the graphic content warning--it's just Ranch 99 grocery meat.

[Mert Karaoglu @mertkaraoglu]

🧵STIR Challenge returns for MICCAI 2025

We're inviting researchers to submit their point tracking methods on our challenging surgical tissue tracking benchmark.

If you're working on robust and efficient point tracking, this is a great opportunity to benchmark and compete.

[Yana Hasson @yanahasson]

Thrilled to share our latest work on SciVid, to appear at #ICCV2025! 🎉
SciVid offers cross-domain evaluation of video models in scientific applications, including medical CV, animal behavior, & weather forecasting 🧪🌍📽️🪰🐭🫀🌦️

#AI4Science #FoundationModel #CV4Science
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[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

Can we all just stop with the "sparsity flops"? Have you ever met a user of sparsity flops? This is worse than resort fees at hotels is this price after the fee / before the fee just stop and report normal FLOPS a sparsity flop isn't even a flop like dude you multiplied by 0.

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

📌🌎🩺🔬🫀
1. The 2025 STIR Challenge (STIRC2025) is launched: https://t.co/4MKhSJd6iK Submit your trackers by Aug. #MICCAI2025 #endovis
2. STIRC2024 paper (and data) released: https://t.co/WenXbiP8gb! Thank you to participants + our sponsors @IntuitiveSurg @ImFusionGmbH @nvidia

[Mert Karaoglu @mertkaraoglu]

📢 The challenge is officially over, but we are still open for submissions! Send in your method until Dec. 15 to contribute to our benchmark. Post-MICCAI submissions will also be invited to join in the summary paper.

🔗 For more details: https://t.co/28VGqWvhuc

[Johan Edstedt @Parskatt]

@abhinav1kumar @ducha_aiki As pdf: https://t.co/tZZygNjlQv
As keynote:
https://t.co/6JaQOw6CeK

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

@sierrambonilla Agreed on the usefulness of evaluation beyond constrained views. Maybe recording using a simultaneous multi-endoscope (A + B) setup with different viewpoints would work. Then testing by reconstructing view A from B. This can still miss the geometric consistency though.

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

Open ❔ on the huge amount of NERF/etc. appearing in endoscopy. For the future: How do we move past photometric error + pseudo GT? Classical/ML stereo can be used as pseudo-GT, but this only proves that the method replicates the matcher--an upper bound on accuracy. Where to now?

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

Do we need more data? Different data? Or is PSNR+pseudo GT good enough..

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

🏃🏻 We are accepting post-challenge submissions until December 15th. All teams will be included in the challenge summary publication. Keep those trackers 🔥

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

🎉 The STIR Challenge presented this Oct. 10th in #endovis at #MICCAI2024
A huge thanks to co-organizers @mertkaraoglu, Soham & Jonathan; sponsors @ImFusionGmbH @nvidia @IntuitiveSurg, and participants!
📊 Results + slides are on our synapse page: https://t.co/EgnEjhtmkh

[Mert Karaoglu @mertkaraoglu]

It was a pleasure to organize the STIR challenge at @MICCAI_Society 2024 with @adam_thaddius and Jonathan McLeod. Many thanks to our sponsors @ImFusionGmbH, @IntuitiveSurg, and @nvidia, as well as @endo_vis for their great support and hosting.

Congratulations to the winners!

[Dan Stoyanov @DanStoyanov]

Great to see the 9th edition @endo_vis at #MICCAI2024 @MICCAI_Society in wonderful Marrakesh! Growing SDS data, more participants, and more startups and large industry involvement. #SurgicalAI is hot 🔥

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

@mertkaraoglu @MICCAI_Society @ImFusionGmbH @IntuitiveSurg @nvidia @endo_vis 🎉Agreed, it was great working together!

[Adam Schmidt @adam_thaddius]

📣 We'll be presenting our point tracking challenge, STIR (https://t.co/2Xy9ouRtbD) tomorrow, October 10th, at #MICCAI24 as part of the #endovis challenge! We've attached a map.
Opening remarks: 8:00am
STIR: 8:10am

Sponsors:
@IntuitiveSurg, @ImFusionGmbH, @nvidia