ECCV veteran asks what academic CV research means in the age of frontier models
CharlotteHase · x · 2026-09-09
Veteran vision researcher Michael J. Black, attending ECCV since 1992, reflects on the role of academic computer vision as frontier models scale: what impact can academics still have, and is GPT-6 "Astra" a step change? He cites his own VIGA paper (image-to-3D-Blender-scene). Charlotte Hase replies that academia's role is training the next generation of researchers — papers are just a by-product, and what earning a PhD means, and what conferences are for, must be redefined.
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