The BeeldCanon project proposal by Luc Van Gool, Tinne Tuytelaars, Arnold Smeulders and Cees Snoek has been granted a subsidy by the Dutch ICTRegie and Flemish IBBT. The project strives to make Dutch/Flemish image culture, as captured in the video archives of Beeld en Geluid and VRT, accessible to the public. To that end we aim to detect the most important Dutch/Flemish monuments and sceneries, like the Atomium and the Zaanse Schans, and make this (extendible) set of visual detectors available for general-purpose visual retrieval. The scientific challenge lies in realizing a solution which is both highly efficient and highly effective. The project builds on KU Leuven’s expertise in invariant visual representations and object recognition, and the expertise of the University of Amsterdam in large-scale video analysis and interactive retrieval. Prospective PhD students who are interested in the topic are welcome to contact me for more details.