Personal Details
Name
- Prof. dr. Cees G.M. Snoek
Office
- Intelligent Sensory Information Systems Lab Amsterdam
Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
P.O. Box 94323
1098 GH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Contact
Education
Doctorate
- January 2001 – October 2005
Computer Science, University of Amsterdam.
Title of thesis: The Authoring Metaphor to Machine Understanding of Multimedia.
Advisors: prof. dr. ir. Arnold W.M. Smeulders and dr. Marcel Worring.
Master’s
- September 1996 – October 2000
Business Information Systems, University of Amsterdam.
Title of thesis: Camera Distance Classification: Indexing Video Shots based on Visual Features.
Advisor: dr. Jeroen Vendrig.
Miscellaneous
- April 2012 – June 2013
Junior ambassadors class, offered by the Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam.
- March 2010 – May 2010
Science Correspondence Course. SCW – Dutch Foundation for Science Correspondence.
- January 2009 – November 2009
Professionalism, offered to VENI laureates by the Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam.
- October 2008 – June 2009
Certificate Programme in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, University of Amsterdam.
Through a seven-sessions course I have demonstrated, documented, and passed the Dutch university-level teaching program (In Dutch: Basiskwalificatie onderwijs, BKO).
- January 2008 – December 2008
Various professional workshops on topics like media training, intellectual property rights, and introduction to leadership.
Professional Appointments
Academic Research
- January 2018 – present
Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- July 2013 – December 2017
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- July 2011 – June 2013
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- August 2010 – February 2011
Fulbright Junior Scholar at Jitendra Malik’s lab, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- January 2009 – December 2012
VENI research fellow, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- January 2005 – December 2008
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- April-October 2003
Visiting researcher at Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- January 2001 – December 2004
Doctorate research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Industry Research
- June 2016 – December 2017
Principal Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm Technologies.
- September 2014 – May 2016
Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies.
- July 2011 – September 2014
Head of R&D, Euvision Technologies.
Professional Service
Associate Editorship
- 2018
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia
- 2017
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia
- 2016
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE MultiMedia
- 2015
- IEEE MultiMedia
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- 2014
- IEEE MultiMedia
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- 2013
- IEEE MultiMedia
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- 2012
- IEEE MultiMedia
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Organization
- 2018
- Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.
- Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.
- 2017
- Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.
- Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.
- 2015
- Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- 2014
- General Co-Chair, Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision.
- Program Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.
- Tutorial Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo.
- Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
- 2013
- Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo.
- Co-Organizer, IST/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.
- Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services.
- Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- 2012
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Co-Organizer, Video Browser Showdown at International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling.
- Co-Organizer, Special session on Socio-Video Semantics, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- Co-Organizer, IST/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.
- Co-Organizer, Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media at European Conference on Computer Vision.
- Co-Organizer, Workshop on Socially-Aware Multimedia at ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Guest-editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on Learning from Multiple Evidences for Large Scale Multimedia Analysis.
- Demo Chair, International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling.
- Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- 2011
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Co-Organizer, IST/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.
- Demo Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- 2010
- Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
- Co-Chair, Multimedia Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia.
- Co-Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining at ACM SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
- Co-Organizer, IST/SPIE (Electronic Imaging), Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.
- 2009
- Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.
- Co-Organizer, Workshop on Internet Multimedia Mining at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.
- Publicity Chair, ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services.
- 2008
- Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.
- Co-Organizer, Special session on Challenges in Interactive Video Search, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.
- 2007
- Co-Organizer, VideOlympics Video Retrieval Showcase Event at ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.
- Local Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval.
Program Committee Member
- 2018
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- European Conference on Computer Vision
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- 2017
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- 2016
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- 2015
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 2014
- European Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- CVPR Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media
- 2013
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- ACM SIGIR Conference
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
- CVPR Workshop on Language for Vision
- ICCV Workshop on Action Recognition with Large Number of Classes
- ICCV Workshop on Large-Scale Video Search and Mining
- 2012
- European Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- International Workshop on Large-Scale Video Search and Mining
- International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
- Workshop on Social Media Applications in News and Entertainment
- 2011
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
- International ACM Workshop on Social Media
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia
- Dutch ICT.open conference
- 2010
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval
- ACM SIGIR Conference
- European Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
- IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
- International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing
- SIGMM Workshop on Social Media
- Workshop on Very-Large-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and Retrieval
- Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging
- 2009
- ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
- ACM SIGIR Conference
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- International Conference on Digital Information Management
- International Conference on Semantic And digital Media Technologies
- SIGMM Workshop on Social Media
- IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications
- IJCAI Workshop on Cross-Media Information Access and Mining
- IADIS International Conference on Visual Communication
- Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging
- 2008
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- International Conference on Semantic And digital Media Technologies
- IADIS International Conference on Visual Communication
- Visual Information Processing Workshop
- Dutch Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging
- 2007
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia
- International MultiMedia Modeling Conference
- IEEE Workshop on Motion & Video Computing
- Belgian-Dutch Benelearn Conference
- 2006
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
- 2005
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo
Reviewer International Journals
- ACM Computing Surveys
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems
- ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
- Applied Ontology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
- IEEE Computer
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
- IEEE Intelligent Systems
- IEEE Multimedia
- IEEE Pervasive Computing
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Image and Vision Computing
- Information Retrieval
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of Computer Vision
- International Journal of Systems Science
- Journal of Electronic Imaging
- Journal of Web Semantics
- Machine Vision and Applications
- Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Tools and Applications
- Pattern Recognition
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- Signal, Image and Video Processing
- Signal Processing
- The Computer Journal
- The Visual Computer
Proposal and Project Reviewer
- NWO TTW Vidi 2017 committee
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2017
- STW Vidi 2016 committee
- NWO TOP 2016 committee
- ERC Starting Grant 2016
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2015
- STW Veni 2015 committee
- European Commission – FP7 project review
- Czech Science Foundation
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
- Qatar National Research Fund
- The Austrian Science Fund
- Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarships 2014 committee
- Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarships 2013 committee
Professional Memberships
International
- ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, Senior Member
- ACM SIGMM: ACM Special Interest Group Multimedia
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Senior Member
National
- ASCI: Advanced School for Computing and Imaging
- NVPHBV: Dutch Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Educational Activities
International Professional Tutorials
- Video Recognition and Retrieval at the TRECVID Benchmark, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2018.
- Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval, ICIAP, 2017.
- Zero-shot learning for computer vision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017.
- Video Indexing, Search, Detection, and Description with Focus on TRECVID, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2017.
- Zero-shot learning for vision and multimedia, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016.
- Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2016.
- Basics of Neural Networks, Deep Learning Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language, 2016.
- Image Tag Assignment, Refinement and Retrieval, ACM Multimedia, 2015.
- What happens where in video?, International Computer Vision Summer School, 2015.
- Internet Video Search, European Conference on Computer Vision, 2012.
- Internet Video Search, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2011.
- Video Search Engines, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2010.
- Video Search Engines, Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, 2010.
- Video Search Engines, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010.
- Interactive Video Retrieval, AERFAI Summer School on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning in Multimedia Systems, 2010.
- Video Search Engines, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Tunisia, 2009.
- Coloring Visual Search, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.
- Video Analysis and Retrieval, International Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, 2009.
- Video Search Engines, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.
- Concept-based Video Retrieval, Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, 2009.
- Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008.
- Concept-based Video Retrieval, Summer School on Image Processing, 2008.
- Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, 2008.
- Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, Swiss School of the 3eme cycle romand in Informatics, 2007.
- Concept-based Video Indexing and Retrieval, International Summer School on Multimedia Semantics Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications, 2007.
- Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 2006.
- Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2006.
University Courses
- Computer Vision by Learning. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2017.
- Advanced Topics in Computer Vision. University of Amsterdam, 2014.
- Computer Vision by Learning. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2014.
- Visual Search Engines. University of Amsterdam, 2014.
- Multimedia Information Systems. University of Amsterdam, 2013.
- Multimedia Retrieval. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2011.
- Text Mining and Collective Intelligence. Amsterdam University College, 2011.
- Visual Search Engines. University of California at Berkeley, 2010.
- Text Mining for Business Applications. University of Amsterdam, 2010.
- Intelligent Multimedia Systems. University of Amsterdam, 2009.
- Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2008.
- Multimedia Retrieval. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2007.
- Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2007.
- Personalized Information Delivery. University of Amsterdam, 2006.
Post-Doctoral Supervision
- Pascal Mettes, 2017-
- Amir Ghodrati, 2017-
- Zhenyang Li, 2016-2018
- Thomas Mensink, 2013-2016
Thomas was awarded a VENI in 2015 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
- Mihir Jain, 2014-2016
Mihir is currently at Qualcomm Technologies.
- Jan van Gemert, 2013-2015
Jan is currently an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology.
- Koen E.A. van de Sande, 2011-2014.
Koen is currently at Qualcomm Technologies.
- Xirong Li, 2011-2012.
Xirong is currently an Associate Professor at Renmin University of China.
Ph.D. Thesis Supervision
- Vacancy 2018-2022.
- Vacancy 2018-2022.
- Vacancy 2018-2022.
- Vacancy 2018-2022.
- Shuo Chen, 2018-2022.
- Jiaojiao Zhao, 2017-2021.
- William Thong, 2016-2020.
- Tom Runia, 2016-2020.
- Kirill Gavrilyuk, 2015-2019.
- Shuai Liao, 2015-2019.
- Spencer Cappallo, Predicting Visual Trends, 2013-2017.
- Pascal Mettes, Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos, 2013-2017.
Pascal is currently a post-doc in my lab at the University of Amsterdam.
- Zhenyang Li, Exploring Locality for Visual Recognition, 2012-2016.
Zhenyang is finding a job in China’s AI industry.
- Svetlana Kordumova, Learning to Search for Images without Annotations, 2011-2015. Lana is heading a startup in stealth mode and an Assistant Professor at Goce Delčev University of Štip.
- Amirhossein Habibian, Storytelling Machines for Video Search, 2011-2015.
Amir is currently at Qualcomm Technologies.
- Masoud Mazloom, In Search of Video Event Semantics, 2011-2015.
Masoud is currently a post-doc with Marcel Worring at the University of Amsterdam.
- Efstratios Gavves, Nuances in Visual Recognition, 2008-2012.
Stratis is back at the University of Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor, after a post-doc with Tinne Tuytelaars at KU Leuven, Belgium.
- Xirong Li, Content-Based Visual Search Learned from Social Media, 2007-2011.
Xirong is recipient of the SIGMM Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2013.
Xirong is currently an Associate Professor at Renmin University of China.
International Visitors
Industry Interns
- Victor Escorcia, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2017.
- Joe Yue-Hei Ng, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2016.
- Eren Golge, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2015.
Member of the Ph.D. Committee
- Fabian Flohr, Vulnerable Road User Detection and Orientation Estimation for Context-Aware Automated Driving, University of Amsterdam, 2018.
- Spencer Cappallo, Predicting Visual Trends, University of Amsterdam, 2018.
- Joern Jacobsen, Structured Convolutional Networks. University of Amsterdam, 2018.
- Wenjie Pei, Models for Supervised Learning on Sequence Data. Delft University of Technology, 2018.
- Riste Gligorov, Serious Games in Audio-Visual Collections. Vrije University Amsterdam, 2018.
- Maaike de Boer, Semantic Mapping in Video Retrieval. Radboud University Nijmegen, 2017.
- Alessio Bazzica, Music Information Retrieval beyond Audio. Delft University of Technology, 2017.
- Zhenyang Li, Exploring Locality for Visual Recognition. University of Amsterdam, 2017.
- Pascal Mettes, Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos. University of Amsterdam, 2017.
- Maurice Peemen, Improving the Efficiency of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Eindhoven University of Technology, 2017.
- Ork de Rooij, Interactive Content-Based Visualizations for Multimedia Search. University of Amsterdam, 2017.
- Jan Zahálka, The Machine in Mulimedia Analytics. University of Amsterdam, July 2017.
- Ali Sharif Razavian, Convolutional Network Representation for Visual Recognition. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), January 2017.
- Ran Tao, Visual Instance Search from One Example. University of Amsterdam, January 2017.
- Silvia-Laura Pintea, Continuous Learning in Computer Vision. University of Amsterdam, January 2017.
- Sezer Karaoglu. Recognition and Detection of Objects Using Visual and Textual Cues. University of Amsterdam, December 2016.
- Svetlana Kordumova, Learning to Search for Images without Annotations. University of Amsterdam, November 2016.
- Amirhossein Habibian, Storytelling Machines for Video Search. University of Amsterdam, September 2016.
- Masoud Mazloom, In Search of Video Event Semantics. University of Amsterdam, September 2016.
- Daan Odijk, Context & Semantics in News & Web Search. University of Amsterdam, June 2016.
- Fares Alnajar, Automatic Age and Gaze Estimation under Uncontrolled Conditions. University of Amsterdam, January 2016.
- Andrej Mikulik, Large-Scale Content-Based Sub-Image Search. Czech Technical University in Prague, July 2015.
- Dan Oneata, Robust and efficient models for action recognition and localization. Universite de Grenoble/Inria, July 2015.
- Ben van Werkhoven, Scientific Supercomputing with Graphics Processing Units, VU University Amsterdam, October 2014.
- Efstratios Gavves, Nuances in Visual Recognition, University of Amsterdam, September 2014.
- Zhigang Ma, From Concepts to Events: A Progressive Process for Multimedia Content Analysis, University of Trento, December 2013.
- Stevan Rudinac, Advancing the Relevance Criteria for Video Search and Visual Summarization, Delft University of Technology, May 2013.
- Simon Carter, Exploration and Exploitation of Multilingual Data for Statistical Machine Translation, University of Amsterdam, December 2012.
- Xirong Li, Content-Based Visual Search Learned from Social Media, University of Amsterdam, March 2012.
- Koen van de Sande, Invariant Color Descriptors for Efficient Object Recognition, University of Amsterdam, December 2011.
- Jasper Uijlings, The What and Where in Visual Object Recognition, University of Amsterdam, December 2011.
- Bouke Huurnink, Search in Audiovisual Broadcast Archives, University of Amsterdam, November 2010.
M.Sc. Thesis Supervision
- M. Nagel, Meta Fisher Vectors for generative encoding of visual streams, January 2015.
- B. van de Poel, Evaluating Visual Representations for Video Event Retrieval, December 2012.
- E.A. van Beijsterveldt, Searching Television Fragments Using Micro-Blogs, September 2012.
- D. Modolo, Towards Semantic Representations for Event Detection and Segmentation, December 2011.
- J. Steggink, Adding Semantics to Image Region Annotations with the Name-It-Game, June 2009.
- A. Setz, Can Social Tagged Images Aid Concept-Based Video Search?, April 2009.
- R. Nijdam, A Performance Evaluation of Concept-Based Video Genre Classification Components, October 2007.
- J. Damman, Using a Category System in an Online Annotation Game, September 2007.
- T. van Dijk, The Potential of Social Tagged Data for Visual Indexing, July 2007.
- K.E.A. van de Sande, Coloring Concept Detection in Video using Interest Regions, April 2007.
- L. van der Zande, On the Effectiveness of Query-Concept-Dependent Video Search, June 2006.
- J. Edens, Towards Combining Automatic, Semi-automatic, and Manual Annotation for Semantic Narrowcast Video Retrieval, June 2006.
- A. Algoe, People Annotation in Frequent-Face Videos, October 2004.
B.Sc. Thesis Supervision
- H. Scholtens, A Text-Based Framework for Generic Person X Annotation in Broadcast News Video, August 2005.
Education Management
- 2018
- Coordinator Honors Program Bachelor Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam.
- 2014
- Member Examinations Board Information Studies, University of Amsterdam.
Invited Presentations
International
- Machines Can See Conference, Moscow, Russia, June 2018.
- EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018.
- University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, November 2017.
- Frontiers of Video Technology Workshop, San Jose, USA, July 2017.
- Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, January 2017.
- ECCV Workshop on Storytelling with Images and Videos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2016.
- CVPR Workshop on Deep Vision, Las Vegas, USA, June 2016.
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Cannes, France, June 2016.
- Blippar, London, UK, April 2016.
- ICCV Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media, Santiago, Chile, December 2015.
- MM Workshop on Human-Centered Event Understanding from Multimedia, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.
- SIGMM Multimedia Frontier Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, October 2015.
- Re.Work Deep Learning Summit, London, UK, September 2015.
- Inria-LEAR, Grenoble, France, July 2015.
- Qualcomm, San Diego, USA, October 2014.
- ECCV Workshop on THUMOS Challenge: Action Recognition with a Large Number of Classes, Zürich, Switzerland, September 2014.
- ECCV Workshop on Visual surveillance and Re-identification, Zürich, Switzerland, September 2014.
- ICMR Workshop on Social Events in Web Multimedia, Glasgow, UK, April 2014.
- VRT Media Fast Forward event, Brussels, Belgium, November 2013.
- MM Workshop on Event-based Media Integration and Processing, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
- MMC Seminar: Changing Sceneries, Changing Roles, Hilversum, May 2013.
- Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Prague, April 2013.
- ECCV Workshop on Information fusion in computer vision for concept recognition, Firenze, Italy, October 2012.
- International Workshop on Digital Media Analysis, Search and Management, La Jolla, USA, February 2012.
- Audio-Visual Search Cluster meeting, Brussels, December 2011.
- International Workshop on Computer Vision Applications, Eindhoven, March 2011.
- Gracenote, Emeryville, USA, February 2011.
- Google Inc., Mountain View, USA, October 2010.
- U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, September 2010.
- Akiira Media Systems, Palo Alto, USA, June 2010.
- FXPAL, Palo Alto, USA, January 2010.
- K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, May 2009.
- National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, January 2009.
- Schloss Dagstuhl, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2008.
- Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK, July 2007.
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 2007.
- Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany. October, 2005.
- University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, March, 2004.
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2003.
National
- MAGNIMS workshop, Amsterdam, April 2018.
- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, February 2018.
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, January 2018.
- Radboud University, Nijmegen, December 2017.
- VOGIN-IP, Amsterdam, March 2017.
- Institute Quantivision Conference, February 2017.
- Schiphol GMI overleg, Schiphol, October 2016.
- ICT.OPEN, Apeldoorn, March 2016.
- Cross Media Cafe ‘Video Formats’, Hilversum, February 2016.
- National eScience Symposium, Amsterdam, October 2015.
- AWTI, NIKHEF Amsterdam, June 2015.
- SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, May 2015.
- Barlaeus Lecture, Universiteit van Amsterdam, December 2013.
- ICT.OPEN, Eindhoven, November 2013.
- ASCI.OPEN, Eindhoven, November 2013.
- Landelijke videodag, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, The Hague, June 2013.
- DAS workshop, Delft, February 2013.
- NWO Chemistry & Physical Sciences, The Hague, January 2013.
- Delft University of Technology, Delft, October 2012.
- Faculty Colloquium, Amsterdam, October 2012.
- ZiuZ Gebruikersdag, Sint Nicolaasga, May 2012.
- Amsterdam Image Statistics & Neural Processing Meeting, Amsterdam, March 2012.
- Afscheidsseminar Eric Sieverts, Amsterdam, January 2012.
- TNO, Delft, August 2011.
- Fulbright Award Ceremony, Amsterdam, June 2011.
- NWO Bessensap, Den Haag, June 2011.
- Symposium on Future Directions for Indexing and Retrieving Visual Media, Amsterdam, November 2010.
- Landelijke videodag, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, The Hague, June 2010.
- ICTDelta, Rotterdam, March 2010.
- Leidsche Flesch, Leiden University, Leiden, February 2010.
- Bètapartners education conference, Amsterdam, January 2010.
- Society of the Query conference, Amsterdam, November 2009.
- Cross Media Cafe ‘Media & Uitvinders’, Hilversum, October 2009.
- CWI, Amsterdam, April 2009.
- Delft University of Technology, Delft, February 2009.
- Delft University of Technology, Delft, May 2008.
- CWI, Amsterdam, November 2004.
- TNO, Delft, April 2003.
- Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica, Amsterdam, April 2002.
Grants and Prizes
Grants
- Co-PI of IARPA DIVA project TARDIS-V: Multi-Layer Compositional Activity Understanding using Joint Visual and Semantic Inference. November 2017.
- WP leader of NWO Perspectief on Efficient Deep Learning project: Deep Learning for Video Analysis and Surveillance. November 2017.
- Co-PI of QUVA Lab, Toeslag Topconsortia voor Kennis en Innovatie, December 2015.
- Co-PI of QUVA Lab, the public-private partnership between Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and the University of Amsterdam. May 2015.
- Co-PI of Digging into Data proposal: Digging Archaeology Data: Image Search and Markup (DADAISM). January 2014.
- PI of NWO Big Grid proposal: VideoSCOUD: Video Search on the Cloud. October 2012.
- PI of NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (“VIDI”) proposal: STORY: Searching for the events told by video content. June 2012.
- WP leader of FES COMMIT sub-grant proposal: Socially-Enriched Access to Linked Cultural Media. October 2010.
- Co-PI of IARPA Aladdin SESAME: Video Search with Speed and Accuracy for Multimedia Events. October 2010.
- PI of Fulbright Junior Scholar proposals: Visual Search Engines (teaching) and Shaping Visual Semantics for Video Search (research), both executed at U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA. April 2010.
- PI of NWO-NCF proposal: VideoSUPER: Video Search by Understanding Multiple Keyframes. June 2009.
- PI of MultimediaN Idea-competition proposal: De PinkPop Teletijdmachine. May 2009.
- PI of NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (“VENI”) proposal: SEARCHER: Substituting Experts by Amateurs for Concept-based Video Retrieval. August 2008.
- Co-PI of Dutch/Flemish IM-Pact proposal: BeeldCanon: Videobeelden Categoriseren van Atomium tot Zaanse Schans. March 2008.
- Co-PI of Muscle Showcase proposal: Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation Showcases. December 2006.
Awards
- 2017, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.
- 2017, best performer, NIST TRECVID ad-hoc video search task.
- 2017, ITE Niwa-Takayanagi Best Paper Award.
- 2016, best performer, NIST TRECVID video to text task.
- 2016, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.
- 2016, best entry, ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge.
- 2016, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.
- 2016, best paper award, ACM ICMR.
- 2015, runner-up, ImageNet 200 object detection task.
- 2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID multimedia event detection task.
- 2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID localization task.
- 2015, best performer, NIST TRECVID semantic indexing task.
- 2015, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.
- 2014, best paper award, ACM Multimedia.
- 2014, best performer, THUMOS action classification challenge.
- 2014, best performer, NIST TRECVID semantic indexing task.
- 2013, best paper award, ASCI.
- 2013, best performer, ImageNet 200 object detection task.
- 2013, best performer, all four NIST TRECVID semantic indexing tasks.
- 2012, Netherlands prize for ICT-Research.
- 2012, best paper award, ASCI.
- 2012, best poster award, ASCI.
- 2012, best performer, Pascal VOC classification with localization.
- 2012, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2012, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video event detection.
- 2012, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper.
- 2012, NWO VIDI.
- 2012, best paper runner-up, ACM ICMR.
- 2011, best performer, ImageNet classification with localization.
- 2011, runner-up, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2010, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2010, best paper award, ASCI.
- 2010, best paper award, ACM CIVR.
- 2010, best paper runner-up, ACM CIVR.
- 2010, Fulbright Junior Scholar.
- 2009, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2009, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.
- 2008, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2008, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.
- 2008, NWO VENI.
- 2005, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.
- 2005, best technical demonstration, ACM Multimedia.
- 2004, best performer, NIST TRECVID video concept detection.
- 2004, best performer, NIST TRECVID video interactive retrieval.
- 2001, best regional master thesis, Nederlands Genootschap voor Informatica.
Publications
Summary
Five Selected
- Xirong Li, Cees G. M. Snoek, and Marcel Worring. Learning Social Tag Relevance by Neighbor Voting. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 11(7):1310-1322, November 2009.
- Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, and Cees G. M. Snoek. Evaluating Color Descriptors for Object and Scene Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(9):1582-1596, September 2010.
- Amirhossein Habibian, Thomas Mensink, and Cees G. M. Snoek. VideoStory: A New Multimedia Embedding for Few-Example Recognition and Translation of Events. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2014.
- Efstratios Gavves, Basura Fernando, Cees G. M. Snoek, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, and Tinne Tuytelaars. Local Alignments for Fine-Grained Categorization. International Journal of Computer Vision, 111(2):191-212, 2015.
- Pascal Mettes and Cees G. M. Snoek. Spatial-Aware Object Embeddings for Zero-Shot Localization and Classification of Actions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Venice, Italy, 2017.
Patents
- Two issued, nine pending.