Optometry Advisor

ChatGPT Update May Identify Glaucoma From Clinical Images

The ChatGPT o1 Pro can accurately identify glaucoma from visual field and optical coherence tomography data, a study shows.
Interesting Engineering

Video: Humanoid robot obeys verbal commands to grab a Coke without any remote control

MenteeBot autonomously fetches a Coke, showing how robots can learn tasks through demonstration and verbal instructions.
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...

Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

Meta’s Vision-Language Shift VL-JEPA Beats Bulky LLMs

VL-JEPA predicts meaning in embeddings, not words, combining visual inputs with eight Llama 3.2 layers to give faster answers you can trust.
IEEE

Florence-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Generative Vision Encoder and Depth-Breadth Fusion

Abstract: We present Florence-VL, a new family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with enriched visual representations produced by Florence-2 [45], a generative vision foundation model.
IEEE

EfficientLLaVA: Generalizable Auto-Pruning for Large Vision-language Models

Abstract: While multimodal large language models demonstrate strong performance in complex reasoning tasks, they pose significant challenges related to model complexity during deployment, especially ...