Manh Lab

Bachelor student at ITMO University, Russia

Blog About CV
May 20, 2021
book

flow
focus
work
productivity
5-33 min read, 1149-8760 words

Pytorch images models

An overview of one of the best library in Pytorch. It help us to understand and quickly deploy SOTA models in a few line code.

February 4, 2021
learning

projection
deep learning
3D
multi-view
7 min read, 1764 words

Learning from Projections

The final post in this four-part series on learning from 3D data. How do we learn from 3D data in this approach? We don't. Instead, we project it into the more familiar 2D space and then proceed with business as usual. Neither exciting nor elegant but embarrassingly simple, effective and efficient.

December 22, 2020
learning

graph
mesh
deep learning
3D
DGCNN
MeshNet
MeshCNN
8 min read, 2098 words

Learning from Graphs

The third way to represent data in 3D. We will learn what a graph is and how it is different from point clouds and voxel grids. Then we will put some butter on the fish (German for "put our money where our mouth is") and look at some implementations of deep learning architectures for graph structured data and their results.

December 17, 2020
learning

voxel
3D
deep learning
voxnet
octnet
9 min read, 2250 words

Learning from Voxels

The second post in the series on learning on 3D data. Last time we looked at point clouds; this time we'll be looking at voxel grids. Let's get to it.

November 3, 2020
learning

point clouds
3D
deep learning
pointnet
pointnet++
15 min read, 3994 words

Learning from Point Clouds

In the previous article we've explored 3D data and various ways to represent it. Now, let's look at ways to learn from it to classify objects and perform other standard computer vision tasks, but now in three instead of two dimensions! This aspires to become a series devoted to various techniques of learning from various types of 3D data, starting with point clouds.

October 29, 2020
learning

convolution
bottleneck
inception
shared mlp
pointnet
7 min read, 1893 words

Really understanding 1x1 convolutions

There are many explanations out there trying to convince you of the utility of 1x1 convolutions as bottlenecks to reduce computational complexity and replacements for fully connected layers, but they always glanced over some pretty important details in my opinion. Here is the full picture.

October 16, 2020
learning

point clouds
voxel grids
meshes
3D
7 min read, 1903 words

Flatlands

I've recently started working with the institutes robots which perceive their environment not only with cameras but also with depth sensors. Working with the 3D data obtained from these sensors is quite different from working with images and this is the summary of what I've learned so far. How to do deep learning on this data will be covered in the next post.

October 5, 2020
book

habits
9 min read, 2286 words

Atomic Habits

One-O-one of ATOMIC HABITS by James Clear. For anyone who ever wanted to get anything done.

July 28, 2020
repository

laplace approximation
Bayesian inference
deep learning
23 min read, 6186 words

Laplace Approximation for Bayesian Deep Learning

A deep look into Bayesian neural networks from a practical point of view and from theory to application. This is the final part of my informal 3 part mini-series on probabilistic machine learning, part 1 and 2 being "Looking for Lucy" and "A sense of uncertainty".

July 17, 2020
learning

probability
Bayesian inference
deep learning
15 min read, 4044 words

A sense of uncertainty

See what happens when probability theory and deep learning have a little chat. Part 2/3 of my informal mini-series on probabilistic machine learning ("Looking for Lucy" being the first).

June 23, 2020
learning

probability
statistics
14 min read, 3657 words

Looking for Lucy

My own take on explaining some fundamentals of probability theory, intended as a primer for probabilistic machine learning. In part 1/3 (this article), we have a look at joint, conditional and marginal probabilities, continuous and discrete as well as multivariate distributions, independence and Bayes' Theorem.

June 17, 2020
resource

blog
github
git
jekyll
plotly
mathjax
binder
disqus
12-16 min read, 3221-4202 words

Beautiful Blogging

How does this blog work? What are all these tagged things? Why GitHub pages? This article answers all of these questions and more!

June 9, 2020
resource

learning
inspirational
awesome
3 min read, 857 words

Awesome Resources

A list of awesome things on the web I've stumbled upon or have been directed to. Those include great (visual) explanations of complicated topics in machine learning and science in general, software tools and other fun stuff.

June 8, 2020
resource

deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligence
robotics
computer vision
conference
9 min read, 2469 words

Important Conferences

I'm still exploring what it means to be a researcher. Here I'll take a look at conferences, which play an important role in my field. I'll also provide a timeline of the most important MACHINE/DEEP LEARNING, ROBOTICS, COMPUTER VISION and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE conferences including paper submission deadlines.

June 4, 2020
book

flow
focus
work
productivity
5-33 min read, 1149-8760 words

Deep Work

An overview of DEEP WORK, a book by Cal Newport, intended as a reference for quickly looking up how to get lost in your work rather than in distractions. For people in a hurry there is a 5 minutes summary at the end of the article.

May 28, 2020
thought

writing
explanation
5 min read, 1426 words

What makes a good article?

Some thoughts on writing useful articles. Those are mainly things I saw elsewhere and would like to incorporate into my own writing but also things I often miss in otherwise great texts.

May 28, 2020
thought

life
work
habits
3 min read, 897 words

My daily routine

An overview of how I imagine my work days to be. In the hope to remember and to keep myself accountable.

May 13, 2020
resource

phd
deep learning
machine learning
robotics
6 min read, 1490 words

Robotics & machine learning PhD topics list

An ongoing list of potential PhD topics. I thought it might be helpful to put this list here to motivate me but also to be able to easily share it and potentially to get some input from elsewhere. So feel free to comment if you have any great ideas!

May 11, 2020
thought

1st post
is this thing on
1 min read, 196 words

Hello World!

Welcome to my blog! Here I'll be posting about all kinds of topics that interest me like biking, hiking, baking and building. And MACHINE LEARNING! There is probably not much here yet, but I promise there will be soon :)