Advancing AI: Highlights from October

October marked another milestone month for Sony AI, showcasing impactful work across computer vision, generative modeling, and human–AI perception. At ICCV 2025, our researchers introduced new methods that make AI systems more efficient and perceptive, while our Sights on AI interview explored how imaging and sensing technologies can extend human understanding of the world.

As the year nears its end, preparations are underway for NeurIPS 2025, where Sony AI will present new research spanning multiple flagship areas. The work continues to embody our mission: to unleash human imagination and creativity with AI.

Let’s dive into the highlights from October.

New Research at ICCV 2025: Expanding the Boundaries of Vision and Generative AI

At ICCV 2025, Sony AI presented six new research contributions that advance both generative modeling and computer vision. The research spanned parameter-efficient fine-tuning, to rethinking how image sensors feed object detection models, to improving Vision Transformer efficiency at the edge. Overall, these works highlight our focus on making AI systems more efficient, and robust.

Read the full blog here.

Sights on AI: Expanding Human Perception Through AI – A Conversation with Daisuke Iso

Daisuke Iso is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI and leads the Imaging and Sensing Flagship Project. At Sony AI, Daisuke heads an international team dedicated to revolutionizing how humans and machines perceive and interact with the world. Their research focuses on advancing the imaging and sensing pipeline. The goal is not just to complement but to augment human perception, expanding our ability to make sense of the complex world we inhabit.

In this blog, Daisuke reflects on his career journey, the evolution of AI in imaging, and how his team is pushing the boundaries of what it means to truly “see.”

Dive into the full interview here.

Coming soon in December, Sony AI will join the global research community at NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego and Mexico City, one of the world’s leading conferences in artificial intelligence. Our teams will present several papers spanning music generation, text-to-image modeling, diffusion, and audio compression, showcasing the breadth of innovation across our flagships.

Among the accepted works are studies exploring text-to-music evaluation, training data attribution in generative models, and diffusion model distillation. Each of these works advances how AI systems can better interpret, generate, and understand creative data.

Stay tuned for a full NeurIPS roundup in December highlighting Sony AI’s latest contributions to the field.

In the meantime, rediscover our contributions from prior years:

- Breaking New Ground in AI Image Generation Research: GenWarp and PaGoDA at NeurIPS 2024 – Sony AI

• - From Data Fairness to 3D Image Generation: Sony AI at NeurIPS 2024
• - Exploring the Challenges of Fair Dataset Curation: Insights from NeurIPS 2024 – Sony AI
• - Sony AI Reveals New Research Contributions at NeurIPS 2023
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Beyond RGB – Adaptive Parallel Processing for RAW Object Detection

In traditional computer vision, object detection models rely on RGB images that have been processed through an Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline. Optimized for human perception rather than machine understanding.

Sony AI researchers are rethinking that foundation.

At ICCV 2025, they introduced the Raw Adaptation Module (RAM), a novel approach that replaces the standard sequential ISP with a parallel processing design inspired by the human visual system. Rather than filtering sensor data through a fixed series of transformations, RAM processes multiple attributes (like tone, brightness, and color) simultaneously and fuses them into a task-optimized representation for detection.

The results speak for themselves.

RAM achieved state-of-the-art performance across seven public RAW datasets, significantly outperforming existing RGB-based methods, especially under difficult conditions such as low light, high noise, and adverse weather. This adaptive design offers a new way forward for robust, efficient perception systems. One that treats sensor data as a richer input, not a constraint.

Read the full paper, “Beyond RGB: Adaptive Parallel Processing for RAW Object Detection,” presented at ICCV 2025.

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