M. Akhtar Munir

Postdoc Researcher (CV/ML) @mbzuai. Area/Interest: Computer Vision & Deep Learning. Visited: 🇨🇦🇸🇦🇦🇪🇬🇧🇴🇲🇺🇲

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Finally the day has arrived, I met my hero Ross Girshick (META) at #cvpr2023
Beginning from Faster rcnn, I have been following his research. Also got to know about his early days of object detection research, deformable part models (pre deep learning era) 1/n @CVPR

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Second, I presented our work, Towards Calibrating Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models, which focuses on calibration for prompt-tuned vision-language models.
Link: https://t.co/dGBbz5e0Yw

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

CVPR 2026 wrap-up from Denver, Colorado -- an inspiring week of research discussions and new ideas. I had the opportunity to present two works this year.

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

First, I gave an oral talk at the MONTI workshop for our hashtag#BestPaperOral. ThinkGeo is our benchmark effort toward tool-augmented Earth Observation reasoning.
Link: https://t.co/hOxgQiVOg3

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[HPC-AI Tech @HPCAITech]

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

@MNaseerSubhani Congratulations!!

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Highlights:
436 diverse, human-curated queries across 7 domains
14 robust tools
Rigorous step-by-step and end-to-end evaluation of top LLMs (GPT-4o, Qwen, LLaMA-3)
Fully open-source

A big shoutout to the incredible team behind this work!

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

🚀Excited to share our latest work: ThinkGeo, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating tool-augmented LLM agents on real-world remote sensing tasks!

Project https://t.co/hOxgQiVOg3
Dataset https://t.co/L1egonfj53
GitHub https://t.co/Nv69Ipq9nt
Paper https://t.co/iYIwZpLhXg
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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

🌍Why ThinkGeo?
Most existing agentic benchmarks focus on synthetic or generic scenarios. Remote sensing demands spatial and temporal reasoning over real-world satellite and aerial imagery. ThinkGeo bridges this gap by offering first agentic benchmark grounded in RS imagery. 2/n

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Honored to be recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for #CVPR2025 🌟

[#CVPR2026 @CVPR]

Behind every great conference is a team of dedicated reviewers. Congratulations to this year’s #CVPR2025 Outstanding Reviewers!

https://t.co/z8w4YJKTep

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Exciting update about our #CVPR2025 paper: "O-TPT: Orthogonality Constraints for Calibrating Test-time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models" has been selected as a highlight! 🎉

Congratulations to all co-authors

Paper: https://t.co/wIrX06FLUn
Code: https://t.co/dWwnk1d7eT

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

2. EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations into Interactive Dialogues

Authors: Sagar Soni, Akshay Dudhane, Hiyam Debary, Mustansar Fiaz, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Muhammad Sohail Danish, Paolo Fraccaro, Campbell D. Watson, Levente J. Klein, Fahad Khan, Salman Khan

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Thrilled to share that we have two papers accepted at #CVPR2025! 🚀
A big thank you to all the collaborators for their contributions. Stay tuned for more updates!

Titles in the thread (1/n)

#CVPR #VisionLanguageModels #ModelCalibration #EarthObservation

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

1. O-TPT: Orthogonality Constraints for Calibrating Test-time Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models

Authors: Ashshak Sharifdeen, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Sanoojan Baliah, Salman Khan, Muhammad Haris Khan

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Crux!

[Jia-Bin Huang @jbhuang0604]

When I was a grad student, sometimes I felt isolated because there wasn't much collaboration among students and opportunities to work with different mentors.

So, three students from my lab will be visiting Berkeley, Stanford, and Cornell next Spring! We will miss having them around, but I am sure that the experiences will help them grow as better researchers!

Also, thanks to our friends for hosting them!

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[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Applications for young researchers (undergrad, PhD or postdoc students) to attend the 2025 Heidelberg Laureate Forum
@HLForum
are now open. I love interacting with the young researchers there, and I'm hoping to be able to go this year, after not being able attend the last few years.

Links are in my first reply (trying an experiment since it seems posts with outgoing links are being throttled on this platform). ⬇️

[Stephan Rasp @raspstephan]

Here is an updated version of my chart showing the progress of AI-weather models over time. For details, including raw data and links to sources, check out this spreadsheet (feedback welcome 😀): https://t.co/i0Sg61gox7

[Frank Nielsen @FrnkNlsn]

Very pedagogical. Must read.

Free to read online:
https://t.co/QJtY0O9gv9

[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Our study adapts neural weather forecasting models for the MENA region using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), leading to faster convergence and improved accuracy in predicting weather variables compared to a global model.

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[M. Akhtar Munir @akhtarTalks]

Pleased to share, our work "Efficient Localized Adaptation of Neural Weather Forecasting: A Case Study in the MENA Region" has been accepted at #NeurIPS2024 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

More: https://t.co/FM6z4PWf6y

w/ Fahad Khan @KhanSalmanH

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