thwiedemer.bsky.social
Research Scientist at Google Deepmind Zürich | PhD student in ML at Max Planck Institute Tübingen and University of Tübingen.
👤 Joined on 18 February 2025
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@thwiedemer.bsky.socialCan AI reason by “imagining” — not just by seeing or reading? We introduce Mentis Oculi, a benchmark for machine mental imagery: multi-step visual puzzles that require maintaining and updating visual states over time. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.02465 🌐 jana-z.github.io/mentis-oculi/ 🧵⬇️
Show Post🚀 We're hiring! The @ellisinsttue.bsky.social leads the AI development for Germany’s new open-source nationwide Adaptive Intelligent System learning platform for schools (as part of a consortium led by Assecor & KI macht Schule, and mandated by the FWU). 👉 Apply now: forms.gle/XmLkwEDD45fY...
Show PostThanks to Daniil Zverev*, @thwiedemer.bsky.social*, @bayesiankitten.bsky.social, Matthias Bethge (@bethgelab.bsky.social), and @wielandbrendel.bsky.social for making VGGSound sounder! 🙌 🎉 🐗
Show Post📊 With VGGSounder, we show that existing models don’t always benefit from multimodal input and sometimes performance even degrades. Code and data: vggsounder.github.io
Show Post🎉 Excited to present our paper VGGSounder: Audio‑Visual Evaluations for Foundation Models today at #ICCV2025! 🕦 Poster Session 1 | 11:30–13:30 📍 Poster #88 Come by if you're into audio-visual learning and want to know whether multiple modalities actually help or hurt.
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