At CVPR 2026 in Denver, attendees observed computer vision research moving beyond isolated perception tasks toward integration with robotics and systems that simulate future states, support planning, and enable embodied interaction.
#CVPR'26 was a blast -- so much fun!
Lessons learned: - 3D is dead, long live 3D - no best papers for academia - vision is now robotics - AI generated papers vs AI reviews - everything is a world model - startup parties >> big tech - academia still no GPUs
Official programming included multiple events on video world models for robotics, active sensing, and closed-loop planning, matching the reported rise in accepted papers on embodied AI.
Attendee notes flag ongoing limits on GPU access for university labs and questions around AI-generated submissions, though these observations lack direct confirmation in the official program.
Positive users find the CVPR 2026 declaration that vision is now about robotics and world models exciting and spot on, while one negative reply calls the idea depressing.
@MattNiessner Not sure if that was the intention, but that sounds ... pretty depressing
@Ferbin08 For robotics that makes of course sense, and of course I love that direction, but there's also many non-robotics use cases in vision.
@MattNiessner Vision papers that crush test footage get humbled by mud, rust, weird angles.
Real robots live in that gap.
That's the actual story behind 'vision is now robotics.'
@pretendsmarts Nope was not the intention - it was actually quite exciting :)
@MattNiessner Pretty spot on @MattNiessner
#CVPR'26 was a blast -- so much fun!
Lessons learned: - 3D is dead, long live 3D - no best papers for academia - vision is now robotics - AI generated papers vs AI reviews - everything is a world model - startup parties >> big tech - academia still no GPUs
@MattNiessner At least for those 3, let's hope things will not stay that way for long: - no best papers for academia - AI generated papers vs AI reviews - academia still no GPUs
@MattNiessner The more things change the more they remain the same.
At CVPR 2026 in Denver, attendees observed computer vision research moving beyond isolated perception tasks toward integration with robotics and systems that simulate future states, support planning, and enable embodied interaction.
#CVPR'26 was a blast -- so much fun!
Lessons learned: - 3D is dead, long live 3D - no best papers for academia - vision is now robotics - AI generated papers vs AI reviews - everything is a world model - startup parties >> big tech - academia still no GPUs