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A 2017 CVPR paper on discovering causal signals in images resurfaces for its findings on visual causal footprints

NYU professor Kyunghyun Cho recently highlighted its long-term significance.

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Kyunghyun Cho@kchonyc#18inTech

sometimes , it really does take a decade for me to understand a paper and appreciate its insight and foresight. <Discovering Causal Signals in Images> is one such paper. wow ... david, @robertnishihara , @soumithchintala , @bschoelkopf & @LeonBottou really did see the future.

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Users praise the 2017 paper's causal signal ideas for their broad generality, arguing the 'In Images' title limited wider appreciation and readership.

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the full paper is at https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2017/html/Lopez-Paz_Discovering_Causal_Signals_CVPR_2017_paper.html

sometimes , it really does take a decade for me to understand a paper and appreciate its insight and foresight. <Discovering Causal Signals in Images> is one such paper. wow ... david, @robertnishihara , @soumithchintala , @bschoelkopf & @LeonBottou really did see the future.

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sometimes , it really does take a decade for me to understand a paper and appreciate its insight and foresight. <Discovering Causal Signals in Images> is one such paper. wow ... david, @robertnishihara , @soumithchintala , @bschoelkopf & @LeonBottou really did see the future.

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if they removed "In Images" from the title, this paper would've been appreciated and read much more broadly, i think. the ideas here are so general.

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