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Thursday: April 9 - Visual AI Agents Workshop

Jimmy Guerrero — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:23:18 +0000

Join us on April 9 at 9 AM Pacific for the Visual Agents: What it Takes to Build an Agent that can Navigate GUIs like Humans virtual workshop.

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This hands-on workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to building and evaluating visual agents for GUI automation using modern tools and techniques. Participants will learn how to leverage FiftyOne, an open-source toolkit for dataset curation and computer vision workflows, to build production-ready GUI agent systems.

What You'll Learn:

Dataset Creation & Management: How to structure, annotate, and load GUI interaction datasets using the COCO4GUI standardized format
Data Exploration & Analysis: Using FiftyOne's interactive interface to visualize datasets, analyze action distributions, and understand annotation patterns
Multimodal Embeddings: Computing embeddings for screenshots and UI element patches to enable similarity search and retrieval
Model Inference: Running state-of-the-art models like Microsoft's GUI-Actor to predict interaction points from natural language instructions
Performance Evaluation: Measuring model accuracy using standard metrics and normalized click distance to assess localization precision
Failure Analysis: Investigating model failures through attention maps, error pattern analysis, and systematic debugging workflows
Data-Driven Improvement: Tagging samples based on error types (attention misalignment vs. localization errors) to prioritize fine-tuning efforts
Synthetic Data Generation: Using FiftyOne plugins to augment training data with synthetic task descriptions and variations

Wednesday : April 8 - Computer Vision Workflows Workshop

Jimmy Guerrero — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:48:20 +0000

Join us on April 8 at 10 AM Pacific for a free, 60-minute, virtual hands-on workshop to learn how to curate, visualize, and evaluate models using the open source FiftyOne app.

Register for the Zoom

What you'll learn:

Structure unstructured data. Map data and metadata into a queryable schema for images, videos, and point clouds.
Query datasets with the FiftyOne SDK. Create complex views based on model predictions, labels, and custom tags. Use the FiftyOne to filter data based on logical conditions and confidence scores.
Visualize high dimensional embeddings. Project features into lower dimensions to find clusters of similar samples. Identify data gaps and outliers using FiftyOne Brain.
Automate data curation. Implement algorithmic measures to select diverse subsets for training. Reduce labeling costs by prioritizing high entropy samples.
Debug model performance. Run evaluation routines to generate confusion matrices and precision recall curves. Visualize false positives and false negatives directly in the App to understand model failures.
Customize FiftyOne. Build custom dashboards and interactive panels. Create specialized views for domain specific tasks.

April 9 - Visual AI Agents Workshop

Jimmy Guerrero — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:23:06 +0000

Join us on April 9 at 9 AM Pacific for the Visual Agents: What it Takes to Build an Agent that can Navigate GUIs like Humans virtual workshop.

Register for the Zoom

What You'll Learn:

Dataset Creation & Management: How to structure, annotate, and load GUI interaction datasets using the COCO4GUI standardized format
Data Exploration & Analysis: Using FiftyOne's interactive interface to visualize datasets, analyze action distributions, and understand annotation patterns
Multimodal Embeddings: Computing embeddings for screenshots and UI element patches to enable similarity search and retrieval
Model Inference: Running state-of-the-art models like Microsoft's GUI-Actor to predict interaction points from natural language instructions
Performance Evaluation: Measuring model accuracy using standard metrics and normalized click distance to assess localization precision
Failure Analysis: Investigating model failures through attention maps, error pattern analysis, and systematic debugging workflows
Data-Driven Improvement: Tagging samples based on error types (attention misalignment vs. localization errors) to prioritize fine-tuning efforts
Synthetic Data Generation: Using FiftyOne plugins to augment training data with synthetic task descriptions and variations

April 8 - Getting Started with Computer Vision Workflows Workshop

Jimmy Guerrero — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:32:50 +0000

Join us on April 8 at 10 AM Pacific for a free, 60-minute, virtual hands-on workshop to learn how to curate, visualize, and evaluate models using the open source FiftyOne app.

Register for the Zoom

What you'll learn:

Structure unstructured data. Map data and metadata into a queryable schema for images, videos, and point clouds.
Query datasets with the FiftyOne SDK. Create complex views based on model predictions, labels, and custom tags. Use the FiftyOne to filter data based on logical conditions and confidence scores.
Visualize high dimensional embeddings. Project features into lower dimensions to find clusters of similar samples. Identify data gaps and outliers using FiftyOne Brain.
Automate data curation. Implement algorithmic measures to select diverse subsets for training. Reduce labeling costs by prioritizing high entropy samples.
Debug model performance. Run evaluation routines to generate confusion matrices and precision recall curves. Visualize false positives and false negatives directly in the App to understand model failures.
Customize FiftyOne. Build custom dashboards and interactive panels. Create specialized views for domain specific tasks.

Thursday: April 2 - AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:06:06 +0000

Join us on April 2 at 9 AM Pacific for the monthly AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup!

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Talks will include:

Visual AI at the Edge: Beyond the Model - David Moser at Orella Vision
Sanitizing Evaluation Datasets: From Detection to Correction - Nick Lotz at Voxel51
Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes - Meryem Arik at Doubleword
Building enterprise agentic systems that scale - Aman Sardana at Cisco

April 2 - AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:05:14 +0000

Join us on April 2 at 9 AM Pacific for the monthly AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup!

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Talks will include:

Visual AI at the Edge: Beyond the Model - David Moser at Orella Vision
Sanitizing Evaluation Datasets: From Detection to Correction - Nick Lotz at Voxel51
Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes - Meryem Arik at Doubleword
Building enterprise agentic systems that scale - Aman Sardana at Cisco

March 26 - Advances in AI at Northeastern Virtual Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:46:10 +0000

Join us on March 26 at 9 AM Pacific for the Advances in AI at Northeastern University virtual Meetup!

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This special event will feature some of the latest research happening at NEU.

Talks will include:

Physical AI Research (PAIR) Center: Foundational Pairing of Digital Intelligence & Physical World Deployments - Edmund Yeh at Northeastern University
Grounding Visual AI Models in Real-World Physics - Sarah Ostadabbas and Xiangyu Bai at Northeastern University
WorldFormer: Diffusion Transformer World Models with Mixture-of-Experts for Embodied Physical Intelligence - Yanzhi Wang at Northeastern University
Scalable and Efficient Deep Learning: From Understanding to Generation - Yitian Zhang at Northeastern University

This Thursday: March 19 - Women in AI Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:20:00 +0000

Join us on March 19 at 9 AM Pacific for the Women in AI virtual event.

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Talks will include:

Towards Reliable Clinical AI: Evaluating Factuality, Robustness, and Real-World Performance of Large Language Models - Monica Munnangi at Northeastern University
Language Diffusion Models - Jayita Bhattacharyya at Big4 Consulting
Neural BRDFs: Learning Compact Representations for Material Appearance - Manushree Gangwar at Voxel51
Supercharging AI agents with evaluations - Priya Venkat at Intuit

This Wednesday: March 18 - Vibe Coding Computer Vision Pipelines

Jimmy Guerrero — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:32:29 +0000

Join us on March 18 at 9 AM Pacific for the Vibe Coding Production-Ready Computer Vision Pipelines Hands-on Workshop!

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In this interactive workshop where we'll build production-ready computer vision pipelines using vibe coded FiftyOne plugins. Plugins enable you to customize the open-source FiftyOne computer vision app to match your exact workflow by easily incorporating data annotation, curation, model evaluation and inference.

We'll demonstrate how FiftyOne Skills and the MCP Server can streamline the journey from prototype to production-ready pipelines, keeping your development flow intact.

Perfect for open-source contributors, researchers, and enterprise teams seeking hands-on experience. All participants receive slides, notebooks, and access to GitHub repositories and videos from the workshop.

Tomorrow: March 12 - MCP, Agents and Skills Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:30:41 +0000

Join us tomorrow on March 12 at 9 AM Pacific for a special edition of the AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup where we will focus on Agents, MCP and Skills!

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Talks will include:

Agents Building Agents on the Hugging Face Hub - Ben Burtenshaw at Hugging Face
Claude Code Templates - Daniel Ávila Arias at Hedginner
Move Faster in Computer Vision by Teaching Agents to See Your Data - Adonai Vera at Voxel51
Skills As Documentation - Chris Alexiuk at NVIDIA

Tomorrow: March 11 - Validating World Models and Action-Conditioned Video Workshop

Jimmy Guerrero — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:02:36 +0000

Join us on March 11 at 10 AM Pacific for the “Debugging the Future: Strategies for Validating World Models and Action-Conditioned Video” workshop.

Topics explored:

Validation paradox: How do you evaluate a model that generates predictions of what should happen rather than classifying what did happen?
Data curation at scale: Managing petabyte-scale video datasets while capturing rare edge cases (the "long tail" of unusual events) without prohibitive storage costs
Temporal consistency: Ensuring coherent physics and causality across video sequences when training data is fragmented across multiple storage systems

Solutions explored:

Feedback loops connecting generative model outputs back to real-world physical validation
Federated data strategies for managing distributed video datasets
Collaborative evaluation frameworks for assessing model quality
Techniques to transform video from raw storage into structured, queryable data assets

See you online!

March 19 - Women in AI Meetup

Jimmy Guerrero — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:08:44 +0000

Hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics in AI, ML, and computer vision at the Women in AI virtual event on March 19.

Register for the Zoom.

Talks will include:

Towards Reliable Clinical AI: Evaluating Factuality, Robustness, and Real-World Performance of Large Language Models - Monica Munnangi at Northeastern University
Language Diffusion Models - Jayita Bhattacharyya at Big4 Consulting
Neural BRDFs: Learning Compact Representations for Material Appearance - Manushree Gangwar at Voxel51
Supercharging AI agents with evaluations - Priya Venkat at Intuit