# Introduction
We are a friendly computer vision interest group within MLC. We meet every Saturday 11 AM PDT to discuss papers from vision research. Occasionally we come together to collaborate on various projects or do workshops. We welcome anyone with an interest in this field so come ask questions, give feedback or participate in any other form.
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|**Status**: | active |
|**Discord Channel**: | [`#computer-vision`](https://discord.gg/U7QRKb8dRC) |
|**Calendar Link**:| [click here!](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=ZTRwNXM3NzE1ZXJzcXNvZXQ2Y3E0NTA5cTBAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)
|**Previous Session Recordings Link** | [click here!](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wbc7pORqXwfE7pU4NSpcFKyq_xKvsi-2?usp=sharing) |
|**Formats** | Guest Speakers, Rapid Review (Review multiple papers), [Role Playing](https://colinraffel.com/blog/role-playing-seminar.html), Conference Accepted Paper Rundown |
# Upcoming Session Information
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| Date | 11/12/2022 |
| Topic | Plenoxels: Radiance Fields without Neural Networks |
| Format | In-depth review |
# Previous Reading Group Sessions
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| Date | 10/29/2022 |
| Topic | Where Should I Spend My FLOPS? Efficiency Evaluations of Visual Pre-training Methods |
| Format | In-depth review |
We've reviewed/discussed >50 papers. Some of the papers we have discussed in the past are:
- EG3D: Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks
- Barlow Twins: Self-Supervised Learning via Redundancy Reduction
- Show, Attend and Tell
- AdaMML: Adaptive Multi-Modal Learning for Efficient Video Recognition
- Viewmaker Networks: Learning Views for Unsupervised Representation Learning
- Neural Discrete Representation Learning(VQ-VAE)
- Input-level Inductive Biases for 3D Reconstruction
- Object-aware Contrastive Learning for Debiased Scene Representation
- Visual Chirality
- Exploring Simple Siamese Representation Learning
- An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale, and many more!
- Swin Transformer -- Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
A record of each session can also be found in this [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14IwVS94eRHJmnQok07ScR48CU4lidRA3cNodN9fUCow) (In progress since 7/12/2022)
If you have a paper suggestion that you'd like to present or discuss, come and join us on discord :)
# Past Projects
| **Title** | Description | Deadline |
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| ICLR Blog Post | Select a previous ICLR paper and write an informal and accessible blog post. Highlight ambiguities, provide better visualization, etc. | Jan 14th, 2022 |
| ML Reproducibility Challenge 2021 | Select a paper, reproduce the major results, and verify the contribution. | Feb 4th, 2022 |
