Day 1. Yesterday, our 1st keynote from @[email protected] on Mastodon covered fairness in computer vision, illustrating the danger of AI when applied to surveillance and segregation, and how to foster community-rooted computer vision research that has a social impact. #ACVSS

Day 2. Today, we were lucky to have Anurag Arnab lecturing about advanced architectures for vision. An exciting journey from MLPs to Transformer and their applications to recent MLLMs. #ACVSS

Day 2. Yesterday, Claire Monteleoni gave a keynote on Climate AI showcasing recent progress on weather forecasting and preventing catastrophic events. A surprising highlight is that AI can be less computational intensive than current physical simulations. #ACVSS

Got an opportunity to visit the new African Computer Mission Summer School African Computer Vision Summer School. Congratulations to all the organisers and participants. Great seeing Abeba Birhane Dina Machuve Raesetje Sefala Dinorego 🇿🇦 and so many more friends in the AfricanAI ecosystem.

Day 3. Today, we had the privilege of learning from Abeba Birhane about the rise of AI and Computer Vision in surveillance. An exciting lecture with multiple workshops that challenged us to consider our own decisions regarding AI applications. #ACVSS

Day 3. What a day🤯 In the afternoon, after a busy (too short) poster session and an exciting chat with Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊, students had breakout mentorship sessions, closing the day by kicking off the ACVSS hackathon. Looking forward to Day 10 and discovering all ideas that emerged. #ACVSS

Day 4. Yet another great speaker. Big thanks to Karteek Alahari Karteek Alahari for lecturing on visual representation learning. So much knowledge was packed into a single lecture covering from incremental and multitask learning, all the way to continual learning. #ACVSS

Day 5. There is no modern computer vision without generative AI. We're excited this morning to have Ke Li Ke Li 🍁 lecture to demystify generative modeling and shed light on what makes up for the fantastic progress in image generation. #ACVSS

Day 5. Yesterday, we had the chance to welcome Celia Cintas (Celia Cintas), a research scientist at IBM Research Africa. She gave a keynote on adversarial attacks and out-of-distribution detection, a major topic for inclusive AI and CV. #ACVSS

Huge shoutout to the Ro'ya CV4Africa community where it all began during the Ro'ya DLI workshop! Thanks mennatullah siam and Helge Rhodin for leading also the mentorship session. The community support from Ro'Ya has been incredible. #ACVSS

Day 6. Saturday, we went to the Nairobi National Park for a safari day. It seems like we forgot about computer vision and images for a day, but did we ? Somehow, everyone kept taking pictures. Don't worry, more lectures are coming up very soon😉 #ACVSS

Day 7. "Sunday is fun day", he said. And that's true today; we're thrilled to learn about Vision and Language lectured by Yuki Asano (Yuki). Yuki unraveled the intricacies of VLMs, MLLMs and how to fine-tune large models for novel tasks and datasets. #ACVSS

Day 7. Camera Image Signal Processors (ISPs) are crucial to make image looks natural. We were lucky to welcome Mahmoud Afifi who gave a keynote on how to make learnable ISPs more reliable. #ACVSS

Day 8. It was about time to add the temporal dimension. Big thanks to Hazel Doughty (Hazel Doughty) for her exciting lecture on video understanding, covering methods from optical flow to transformers for video. #ACVSS

Day 8. Exciting keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse (Girmaw Abebe Tadesse), principal scientist at Microsoft AI for Good, on their initiatives using AI to transform lives on the continent and the importance for AI makers to listen to people's needs. #ACVSS

Day 9. Big thanks to Sara Beery (Sara Beery) for her insightful lecture on reducing datasets bias and constructing deployable computer vision that, beyond benchmarks, also contribute to real-life conservation applications. Such an inspiring line of work. #ACVSS

Day 9. Nice keynote from Negar Rostamzadeh (Negar Rostamzadeh) on how to build towards responsible computer vision. She shared her views on the complex process of creating more transparent and accountable frameworks. #ACVSS

Day 10. Alyosha Efros gave an amazing keynote, sharing his lifelong battle on the importance of visual data. His research journey and insights on how, with enough data, simple algorithms can outperform SOTA methods on some tasks were astonishing. #ACVSS

Day 10. To close of the summer school lecture series concluded with an incredible session by our organizers Helge Rhodin and Raoul de Charette, diving into 3D scene reconstruction and a deep dive into Pose estimation. What an inspiring end to an amazing journey! #ACVSS

We look forward to ACVSS 2025 African Computer Vision Summer School . We started as a community to document inequities in Computer Vision research, github.com/Ro-ya-cv4Afric…. One of our goals was the summer school, and we are also looking forward to the first African wide faculty retreat .