Abstract: Dr Yasser Djilali (TII) will introduce the recently developed Falcon VLM on behalf of the AI center team in the Technology Innovation Institute, UAE. He will talk about how vision has evolved with the integration of language, focusing on the of Falcon VLM. He will then highlight some recent work from his group, spending time on Falcon VLM key features and training recipe.

Bio: Yasser Djilali did his PhD at Dublin City University in Ireland on human perception and self-supervised learning from images. Now, he is a researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, working on multimodal vision-language research and development.