Belongie Lab

Logging on! 🧑‍💻🦋 We're the Belongie Lab led by @sergebelongie.bsky.social. We study Computer Vision and Machine Learning, located at the University of Copenhagen and Pioneer Centre for AI. Follow along to hear about our research past and present! www.belongielab.org

📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January! phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Group photo before the start of Efterårsferie 📸🍂 Back row: Stella, Vésteinn, Serge, Nico Front row: Jiaang, Srishti, Lucia, Silpa, Noah, Chengzu Not pictured: Ioannis, Peter, Sebastian, Marco, Zhaochong, Tijmen

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations. Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

🚀New Preprint🚀 Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models? Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG. arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462 More details:👇

Thank you Prof. Derpanis!

New study with @iaugenstein.bsky.social’s group analyzing the interplay between photos and text in the news

Thrilled to announce "Multimodality Helps Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation" is accepted as a Spotlight (5%) at #ICLR2025! Our model MM-FSS leverages 3D, 2D, & text modalities for robust few-shot 3D segmentation—all without extra labeling cost. 🤩 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22489 More details👇

Recordings of the SSL4EO-2024 summer school are now released! This blog post summarizes what has been covered: langnico.github.io/posts/SSL4EO... Recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Course website: ankitkariryaa.github.io/ssl4eo/ [1/3]

SCIA 2025 submission deadline extended to Feb. 17

Learn more about Srishti’s research at www.srishti.dev 🙌

From San Diego to New York to Copenhagen, wishing you Happy Holidays!🎄

Here’s a starter pack with members of our lab that have joined Bluesky

Ever wanted to train your own 13B Llama2 model from scratch on a 24GB GPU? Or fine-tune one without compromising performance compared to full training? 🦙 You now can, with LoQT: Low-Rank Adapters for Quantized Pretaining! arxiv.org/abs/2405.16528 1/4

🤔Do Vision and Language Models Share Concepts? 🚀 We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP 📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...

Join us for the 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗜𝗣𝗦 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 in Copenhagen! 🗓️ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 16:00–18:00, Nov. 22, 2024 📍 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Entrance Hall, Gefion, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K. Present or explore European contributions to NeurIPS 2024 and connect with colleagues. 👉 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 & 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻-𝘂𝗽: www.aicentre.dk/events/pre-n...

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!