Amazing work by @ppwang.bsky.social on self-supervised 3D representations of animals! We show, among other downstream tasks, how the self-supervised backbone can be incorporated into Lightning Pose for even stronger multi-view pose estimation ⚡
🎉 BEAST3D is a #NeurIPS2026 Oral! Can a moving animal's 3D shape predict what its neurons are doing, better than tracked keypoints? On average, yes. BEAST3D is a self-supervised vision transformer that reconstructs animals in 3D from unlabeled multi-camera lab video. 🧵