AgentSTAR uses agents for articulated object tracking; Malik hails end of "grad student descent"
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-15
Jitendra Malik notes that the old "graduate student descent" — manually trying techniques and tweaking parameters for a desired output — can now be handed to AI agents, making the classic analysis-by-synthesis CV paradigm far more powerful.
The quoted post introduces AgentSTAR, an agentic method for joint reconstruction and tracking of articulated objects from monocular video, robust to rapid motion, heavy occlusion, and thin objects like spoons.
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