CVPR Opening Ceremony: The Whole Audience Moved to Tears Remembering Sun Jian, Guangdong University of Technology Undergraduate Student Achieved a Comeback with "Antique Graphics Card" | CVPR 2026
The CVPR 2026 conference opened with a tribute to the late AI pioneer Jian Sun, whose work on ResNet was honored with the Longuet-Higgins Prize. The event highlighted the growing importance of embodied AI and multimodal models, with a significant presence from Chinese researchers who led in author submissions and reviewer contributions. Notably, a team of undergraduate students from Guangdong University of Technology received a Best Student Paper Honorable Mention for their work, achieved using older Titan graphics cards, underscoring that innovative ideas can overcome resource limitations. AI
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