Michael Black on academia's role in the era of powerful large models
Michael_J_Black · x · 2026-09-10
In a follow-up to his pre-ECCV 2026 thread, renowned CV researcher Michael Black (Max Planck) lays out his concerns: academia lacks the resources to evaluate top models and needs a coordinated effort among companies, governments, and academic leaders—he proposes companies give back tokens to academia as a "tax." If academia truly can't evaluate top models in a field, it must seek new problems rather than ignore better solutions. His original post questioned what academic CV research means in the age of models like GPT-6 Astra, citing his own VIGA paper that turns a single image into a 3D Blender scene.
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