Sparsh Garg Presents Mapillary Vistas Validation for Fine-Grained Traffic Signs at DataCV 2025

Our Sparsh Garg, a Senior Associate Researcher in the Media Analytics Department, will present “Mapillary Vistas Validation for Fine-Grained Traffic Signs: A Benchmark Revealing Vision-Language Model Limitations” at the Data Computer Vision (DataCV) 2025 workshop as part of ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawai’i, on Sunday, October 19th, from 11:15 am – 11:25 am.

DataCV 2025

The paper, co-authored by Abhishek Aich, introduces MVV, a new dataset that provides fine-grained, expert-annotated labels for traffic signs, improving upon the coarse annotations in existing datasets like Mapillary. MVV includes pixel-level instance masks and distinguishes between semantically essential categories such as stop and speed limit signs. Benchmarking shows that DINOv2 consistently outperforms state-of-the-art vision-language models, establishing it as a strong baseline for fine-grained visual understanding in autonomous driving. DataCV is a workshop focused on advancing data-centric computer vision by exploring how datasets—rather than models—shape performance, fairness, and generalization in vision and vision-language systems.

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OFC 2026

NEC Labs America Attending OFC 2026 Los Angeles, March 15-19

NEC Laboratories America’s Optical Networking & Sensing team will participate in OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, March 15–19, contributing to panels, workshops, and courses focused on optical sensing, multicore fibers, and next-generation high-capacity optical communication systems.
NEURIPS 2025

NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from Nov 30th to Dec 5th, 2025

NEC Laboratories America is heading to San Diego for NeurIPS 2025, where our researchers will present cutting-edge work spanning optimization, AI systems, language modeling, and trustworthy machine learning. multi-agent coordination, scalable training, efficient inference, and techniques for detecting LLM-generated text.
Eric Blow IPC2025 Monday

Eric Blow Presents at the IEEE Photonics Conference Singapore on November 10th & 13th

Eric Blow of NEC Labs will address how machine-learning methods applied to distributed acoustic-sensing data can monitor facility perimeters and detect intrusion via walk, dig, or drive events over buried optical fibre—for example achieving ~90% classification accuracy.
FiOLS2025 Giovanni

Giovanni Milione presents Mobile Orbital Domains: Addressing Dynamic Topology Challenges in Satellite Networks at FiO LS Conference on October 29th

Our Giovanni Milione will present Mobile Orbital Domains: Addressing Dynamic Topology Challenges in Satellite Networks (JW4A.47) in Joint Poster Session III at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) conference in Denver, CO, on October 29, 2025, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. We analyze satellite trajectories and identify satellite backbone networks with stable inter-satellite connections.