CV researchers frustrated after CVPR: foundation models threaten to absorb the field
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-17
- Letian Wang reports that many senior attendees left CVPR disappointed; at ECCV, right after the GPT-6 release, frustration was palpable as researchers openly wondered how much traditional CV research will be absorbed by large foundation models.
- Igor Carron adds historical perspective: the CV community has been majorly disrupted twice in 15 years and survived, while mathematicians and TCS researchers face this existential dread for the first time.
- He warns the real risk is communities going irrelevant, citing examples of research fields dying after narrowing into echo chambers built around narrow topics; thriving communities reject those easy paths. "It is not a catastrophe, it is simply the end of an illusion."
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