Personal Details
Name
- Prof. dr. Cees G.M. Snoek
Office
- Video & Image Sense Lab
Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 900
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.
Professional Appointments
Academic Research
- January 2018 – present
Full 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.
Public Research Labs
- June 2024 – present
Scientific Director, HAVA Lab with Data Science Center.
Public-Private Research Labs
- November 2019 – present
Scientific Director, Atlas Lab with TomTom.
- October 2019 – September 2024
Scientific Director, AIM Lab with Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence.
- April 2018
Co-Founder, Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence.
- May 2015 – present
Scientific Director, QUVA Lab with Qualcomm Technologies.
Industry Research
- April 2018 – present
Chief Scientific Officer, Kepler Vision Technologies.
- 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.
Research Management
- September 2022- present
Scientific Director Amsterdam AI.
- May 2022 – November 2024
Director ELLIS Amsterdam Unit.
- October 2021 – present
Director ELLIS Research Program on Multimodal Learning Systems.
- October 2021 – September 2024
Member University Committee on Research (UOC), University of Amsterdam.
- June 2019 – May 2024
Management Team, Advanced School for Computing and Imaging.
Education Management
- June 2018 – May 2022
Director Master Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam.
- April 2018 – April 2019
Coordinator Honours Program Bachelor Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam.
- March 2014 – September 2014
Member Examinations Board Information Studies, University of Amsterdam.
Professional Service
Associate Editorship
- 2024-2020
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- 2023-2020
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- 2019-2017
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia
- 2016
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE MultiMedia
- 2015-2012
- IEEE MultiMedia
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Organization
- 2028
- General Co-Chair, Asian Conference on Computer Vision.
- Program Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.
- 2023
- Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
- Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.
- Area Chair, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
- Organizer, Label-Efficient Machine Perception Symposium.
- 2022
- Co-Organizer, Video Understanding Symposium.
- Program Coordinator, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Area Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.
- 2021
- Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.
- Area Chair, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
- 2020
- Area Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision.
- Brave New Ideas Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet
- Track Chair, International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
- 2019
- Area Chair, International Conference on Computer Vision.
- Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia.
- Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.
- Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.
- Program Chair: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.
- Tutorial Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
- 2018
- Area Chair, British Machine Vision Conference.
- Co-Organizer, CVPR Workshop on ActivityNet.
- 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
- 2025
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision
- International Conference on Learning Representations
- 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- 2023
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- 2022
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- 2021
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- 2020
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- British Machine Vision Conference.
- 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- 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
- ERC Starting Grant 2024
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2019
- 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
- ELLIS: European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, Fellow.
- 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
- Unseen Video Understanding. IPM, Iran, 2020.
- Unseen Video Understanding. Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding Tutorial @ CVPR, 2020.
- Activity Understanding, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Application, 2019.
- 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
- Foundation Models. University of Amsterdam, 2025.
- AI Foundation Models. University of Amsterdam, 2025.
- Computer Vision by Learning. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2025.
- Foundation Models. University of Amsterdam, 2024.
- Computer Vision by Learning. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2022.
- Computer Vision by Learning. Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, 2019.
- 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.
Research Staff Supervision
- Yuki Asano, 2020-2024
Yuki is currently a Full Professor at University of Technology Nuremberg.
- Xiantong Zhen, 2020-2022
Xiantong is currently at United Imaging, China.
- Iris Groen, 2020-present
Iris is currently an Assistant Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VENI and VIDI Grant.
- Pascal Mettes, 2019-present
Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VIDI Grant.
- Efstratios Gavves, 2018-present
Stratis is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VIDI and ERC Starting Grant.
Post-Doctoral Supervision
- Yingjun Du, 2024-2026
- Mohammad Mehdi Derakhshani, 2024-2026
- Hazel Doughty, 2020-2023
Hazel was awarded an NWO VENI in 2023 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Leiden University.
- Amir Ghodrati, 2017-2019
Amir is currently at Qualcomm AI Research, Netherlands.
- Pascal Mettes, 2017-2019
Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam.
- Zhenyang Li, 2016-2018
Zhenyang is currently at Baidu, China.
- Thomas Mensink, 2013-2016
Thomas was awarded an NWO VENI in 2015 and is currently at Google DeepMind, Netherlands.
- Mihir Jain, 2014-2016
Mihir is currently at Meta Reality Labs, Switzerland.
- Jan van Gemert, 2013-2015
Jan is currently an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
- Koen E.A. van de Sande, 2011-2014.
Koen is currently at Kepler Vision Technologies, Netherlands.
- Xirong Li, 2011-2012.
Xirong is currently a Full Professor at Renmin University of China.
Ph.D. Thesis Supervision
- Walter Simoncini, 2026-2030.
- Wenfang Sun, 2025-2029.
- Dheeraj Varghese, 2025-2029.
- Thomas Wiggers, 2024-2028.
- Ruthu Hulikal Rooparaghunath, 2024-2028.
- Ana Manzano, 2024-2028.
- Marten Steketee, 2024-2028.
- Dasha Simons, 2024-2028.
- Danilo de Goede, 2023-2027.
- Michael Dorkenwald, 2022-2026.
- Mohammadreza Salehi, 2021-2025.
- Mohammad Mehdi Derakhshani, 2020-2024.
Mohammad is currently a postdoc at University of Amsterdam.
- Aritra Bhowmik, 2020-2024.
Aritra is currently at Kepler Vision.
- Duy-Kien Nguyen, On Inductive Biases in Vision Transformers, 2020-2024.
Kien is currently at Google DeepMind, UK.
- Sarah Rastegar, Unveiling the Unknown: Learning and Generalizing Beyond Predefined Visual Boundaries, 2020-2024.
Sarah is currently a postdoc at Delft University of Technology.
- Yingjun Du, Learning to Learn with Less and Less, 2020-2024.
Yingjun is currently a postdoc at University of Amsterdam.
- Zehao Xiao, Learning to Generalize at Test Time, 2020-2024.
Zehao is currently at Huawei, France.
- Yunhua Zhang, Multimodal Learning Under Visually Challenging Conditions, 2019-2023.
Yunhua is currently at Genmo, USA.
- Fida Mohammad Thoker, Video-Efficient Foundation Models, 2019-2023.
Fida is currently a postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
- David Zhang, Learning to Output Sets, 2019-2023.
David is currently at FAIR Paris, France.
- Shuo Chen, Machine Perception of Interactivity in Video, 2018-2022.
Shuo is currently at Huawei, Singapore.
- Tao Hu, Label-Efficient Learning to See, 2018-2022.
Tao is currently a post-doc at Björn Ommer’s lab, Germany.
- Kirill Gavrilyuk, 2015-2019.
Kirill is currently at Sportlogiq, Canada.
- William Thong, Learning Visual Similarities Robust to Bias, 2016-2020.
William is currently at Apple, Switzerland.
- Zenglin Shi, Inductive Biases for Pixel Representation Learning, 2018-2022.
Zenglin is currently a Full Professor at Hefei University of Technology, China.
- Jiaojiao Zhao, Learning Continuity for Image and Video Recognition, 2017-2021.
Jiaojiao is currently at Amazon, USA.
- Shuai Liao, Deep Learning with 3D and Label Geometry, 2015-2019.
Shuai is currently at Amazon, USA.
- Tom Runia, Recurrent Motion in Vision, 2016-2020.
Tom is currently at Apple, Switzerland.
- Spencer Cappallo, Predicting Visual Trends, 2013-2017.
Spencer is currently at Replicant, Canada.
- Pascal Mettes, Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos, 2013-2017.
Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
- Zhenyang Li, Exploring Locality for Visual Recognition, 2012-2016.
Zhenyang is currently at Baidu, China.
- Svetlana Kordumova, Learning to Search for Images without Annotations, 2011-2015.
Lana is founding CEO of Pixyle.ai and an Assistant Professor at Goce Delčev University of Štip.
- Amirhossein Habibian, Storytelling Machines for Video Search, 2011-2015.
Amir is currently at Qualcomm AI Research, Netherlands.
- Masoud Mazloom, In Search of Video Event Semantics, 2011-2015.
Masoud is currently at ABN-AMRO, Netherlands.
- Efstratios Gavves, Nuances in Visual Recognition, 2008-2012.
Stratis is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam and recipient of an NWO VIDI and ERC Starting Grant.
- 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 a Full Professor at Renmin University of China.
International Visitors
- Francesco Tonini, University of Trento, 2025.
- Ziling Huang, University of Tokyo, 2024.
- Huabin Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2024.
- Aozhu Chen, Renmin University of China, 2023.
- Mengmeng Jing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2022.
- Stefan Pollok, Technical University of Denmark, 2021.
- Pengwan Yang, Peking University, 2020.
- Teng Long, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2019.
- Federico Landi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2018.
- Mihir Jain, Inria, France, 2013.
- Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China, 2011.
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
- Aritra Bhowmik, University of Amsterdam, 2026.
- Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, University of Amsterdam, 2026.
- David Zhang, Learning to Output Sets, University of Amsterdam, 2026.
- Tim Alpherts, University of Amsterdam, 2026.
- Sarah Rastegar, Unveiling the Unknown: Learning and Generalizing Beyond Predefined Boundaries, University of Amsterdam, May 2026.
- George Yiasemis, What We Do Sample, We Must Learn to Reconstruct, University of Amsterdam, April 2026.
- Duy-Kien Nguyen, On Inductive Biases in Vision Transformers, University of Amsterdam, February 2026.
- Weijie Wei, Representation Learning for Sparse Point Cloud Perception, University of Amsterdam, February 2026.
- Anna Kuzina, Mapping the Invisible: Insights into Deep Latent Variable Generative Models, Vrije Universiteit, January 2026.
- Amber Brands, Temporal Adaptation during Visual Processing. Insights from Humans and Vision Models, University of Amsterdam, December 2025.
- Ivona Najdenkoska, Learning from context with multimodal foundation models, University of Amsterdam, November 2025.
- Yingjun Du, Learning to Learn with Less and Less, University of Amsterdam, November 2025.
- Shashank Gupta, Safe, Efficient, and Robust Reinforcement Learning Methods for Ranking and Diffusion Models, University of Amsterdam, October 2025.
- Heiko Zimmerman, Variational Inference for Probabilistic Programming and Generative Modeling, University of Amsterdam, September 2025.
- Mattia Soldan, Towards Scalable and Efficient Semantic Video Search. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, July 2025.
- Zehao Xiao, Learning to Generalize at Test Time, University of Amsterdam, June 2025.
- Matthias Brucklacher, Representation Learning with Generative Neural Networks: A Biological Perspective, University of Amsterdam, April 2025.
- Mayug Maniparambil, Aligning Vision and Language: Harnessing Language Semantics for Efficient Vision Models, Dublin City University, March 2025.
- Tom van Sonsbeek, Combining Images and Text for Improved Medical Image Understanding, University of Amsterdam, March 2025.
- Phillip Lippe, Learning Causal Representations in Spatio-Temporal Systems. University of Amsterdam, February 2025.
- Coen de Vente, Towards robust deep learning for medical imaging: Applications in Ophthalmology and Radiology, University of Amsterdam, January, 2025.
- Yunhua Zhang, Multimodal Learning Under Visually Challenging Conditions, University of Amsterdam, November 2024.
- Jia-Hong Huang, Personalized Video Summarization using Text-Based Queries and Conditional Modeling, University of Amsterdam, October 2024.
- Jiayi Shen, Mitigating Bias in Multi-Task Learning, University of Amsterdam, October 2024.
- Sander Klomp, Privacy-Preserving Advances in Convolutional Neural Networks for Defense and Safety, Eindhoven University of Technology, July 2024.
- Maurits Bleeker, Multi-modal Learning Algorithms for Sequence Modelling and Representation Learning, University of Amsterdam, June 2024.
- Daan de Geus, Advances in Scene Understanding, Eindhoven University of Technology, April 2024.
- Artem Moskalev, Representation Learning with Structured Invariance , University of Amsterdam, March 2024.
- Mohsen Fayyaz, Holistic Video Understanding: Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Efficiency, University of Bonn, March 2024.
- Elisabeth Rumetshofer, Deep Representation Learning from Weakly Labeled Data, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, January 2024.
- Fida Mohammad Thoker, Video-Efficient Foundation Models, University of Amsterdam, December 2023.
- Ali Vardasbi, Re-Examining Assumptions in Fair and Unbiased Learning to Rank, University of Amsterdam, December 2023.
- Mingrui Lao, Exploring Deep Learning for Multimodal Understanding, Leiden University, November 2023.
- Adeel Pervez, Structural Constraints in Neural Network Representations, University of Amsterdam, November 2023.
- Rick Groenendijk, Going into Depth: Learning Morphological Aspects in Data Modalities using Neural Networks, University of Amsterdam, October 2023.
- Jorg Sander, Assessing anatomy and function of the heart using 4D cardiac MRI and deep learning, University of Amsterdam, October 2023.
- Shreyank Gowda, Resource Efficient Action Recognition: Towards Data and Memory Efficiency, University of Edinburgh, September 2023.
- Roei Herzig, Towards Compositionality in Computer Vision, Tel-Aviv University, 2023.
- Shuo Chen, Machine Perception of Interactivity in Video, University of Amsterdam, 2023.
- Tao Hu, Label-Efficient Learning to See, University of Amsterdam, July 2023.
- Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Contributions to the Design and Training of Transformers in Computer Vision, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, July 2023.
- Yunlu Chen, Continuity in 3D Visual Learning, University of Amsterdam, July 2023.
- Ivan Sosnovik, Symmetry-Based Learning From Limited Data, University of Amsterdam, June 2023.
- Partha Das, Photometric Invariance for Intrinsic Image Decomposition, University of Amsterdam, April 2023.
- Patrick Putzky, Amortized Inference in Inverse problems. University of Amsterdam, March 2023.
- Riaan Zoetmulder, Deep-Learning-Based Image Segmentation for Uncommon Ischemic Stroke: From Infants to Adults, University of Amsterdam, February 2023.
- Sadaf Gulshad, Explainable Robustness for Visual Classification, University of Amsterdam, December 2022
- Mert Kılıçkaya, Contextual understanding in Human-Object Interactions, University of Amsterdam, November 2022.
- William Thong, Learning Visual Similarities Robust to Bias, University of Amsterdam, September 2022.
- Devanshu Arya, Multimodal Deep Learning on Hypergraphs, University of Amsterdam, June 2022.
- Zenglin Shi, Inductive Biases for Pixel Representation Learning, University of Amsterdam, April 2022.
- Jiaojiao Zhao, Learning Continuity for Image and Video Recognition, University of Amsterdam, April 2022.
- Cheng Li, Real-time video-based infant discomfort detection and monitoring for GERD diagnosis, Eindhoven University of Technology, March 2022.
- Ali Diba, Large-Scale Video Understanding, KU Leuven, February 2022.
- Osman Semih Kayhan, Locality in Space and Time for Data-Efficient Visual Recognition, Delft University of Technology, February 2022.
- Alexandros Stergiou, Efficient Modelling Across Time of Human Actions and Interactions, Utrecht University, September 2021.
- Shuai Liao, Deep Learning with 3D and Label Geometry, University of Amsterdam, September 2021.
- Berkay Kicanaoglu, Deep Representations of Structures in the 3D-World, University of Amsterdam, September 2021.
- Yue Sun, Video-based Infant Discomfort Detection, Eindhoven University of Technology, July 2021.
- Georgios Kapidis, A Modular Approach for the Detection and Interconnection of Objects, Hands, Locations, and Actions for Egocentric Video Understanding, Utrecht University, June 2021.
- Hoàng Ân Lê, Outdoor Image Understanding from Multiple Vision Modalities, University of Amsterdam, May 2021.
- Noortje Seijdel, Object Recognition Put in Context, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.
- Tom Runia, Recurrent Motion in Vision, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.
- Noureldien Hussein, Aspects of Time for Recognizing Human Activities, University of Amsterdam, April 2021.
- Wendy Shang, Crafting Deep Learning Models for Reinforcement Learning and Computer Vision Applications, University of Amsterdam, January 2021.
- Harrie Oosterhuis, Learning from User Interactions with Rankings, University of Amsterdam, November 2020.
- Dan Li, Effective Collection Construction for IR Evaluation and Optimization, University of Amsterdam, November 2020.
- Praveen Dakwale, Exploring Strategies for Effective Utilization of Training Data for Machine Translation, University of Amsterdam, October 2020.
- Peter O’Connor, Biologically Plausible Deep Learning, University of Amsterdam, September 2020.
- David Semedo, Bridging Vision and Language over Time with Neural Cross-modal Embeddings, NOVA University of Lisbon, July 2020.
- Nuno Cruz Garcia, Learning with Privileged Information using Multimodal Data, Universita di Genova, November 2019.
- Davide Moltisanti, On the Impact of Action Boundaries for Video Recognition, University of Bristol, November 2019.
- Jun Xiao, Improving Application Timing Predictability and Caching Performance on Multi-core Systems, University of Amsterdam, October 2019.
- Kyriacos Shiarlis, Detaching the strings: Practical algorithms for Learning from Demonstration, University of Amsterdam, September 2019.
- Fabian Caba, Understanding Human Activities at Large Scale. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, March 2019.
- Guilhem Chéron, Structured modeling and recognition of human actions in video. École Normale Supérieure de Paris/Inria, December 2018.
- Riste Gligorov, Serious Games in Audio-Visual Collections. Vrije University Amsterdam, November 2018.
- 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.
- 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, December 2017.
- Pascal Mettes, Objects for Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition in Videos. University of Amsterdam, December 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
- P. Bagad, It’s About Time: Time Awareness in Video Foundation Models, June 2023.
- S. Ambekar, Learning to Generate Labels and Models at Test-Time, June 2023.
- S. Kohnstamm, Multi-domain invariant learning with embedding alignment, August 2022.
- S. Reuther, Task-Aware Transfer Learning, March 2021.
- M. van Rijn, Face Anonymisation in Face Detector Training Data, September 2020.
- A. Gansekoele, The Fisher-Watson Detector for Out-of-Distribution and Adversarial Detection, July 2020.
- T. van Dijk, Ball-I3D: Localizing Footballs from Player Coordinates, October 2019.
- E. Machielse, Video Summarizaton by Learning from a Direct Ground-truth, September 2019.
- J. Verhagen, PixelLink++: Adversarial Detection of Text in the Wild, July 2019.
- 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
- E. Langezaal, Learning to recognise illegible license plates with 3D rendered images, June 2022.
- J. Rots, Detecting explosive ATM attacks, July 2019.
- H. Scholtens, A Text-Based Framework for Generic Person X Annotation in Broadcast News Video, August 2005.
Invited Presentations
International
- IntelliSys Conference, Amsterdam, August 2025.
- ELIAS, ELLIOT & ELSA Theme Development Workshop on Foundation Models, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 2025.
- Masterclass in AI and Cardiovascular Health, Amsterdam, June 2025.
- MIAI days, Grenoble, June 2025.
- ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025, Bruneck, January 2025.
- CVPR Workshop on Multimodal Learning and Applications, Seattle, USA, June 2024.
- CVPR Workshop on Learning with Limited Labeled Data, Seattle, USA, June 2024.
- CVPR Workshop on Vision Datasets Understanding, Seattle, USA, June 2024.
- CVPR Workshop on Holistic Video Understanding, Seattle, USA, June 2024.
- AMLD, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2024.
- University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, March 2024.
- International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Amsterdam, January 2024.
- ELLIS Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models, January 2024.
- CVPR Workshop on Long-form Video Understanding and Generation, Vancouver, Canada, June 2023.
- IKEA AI Summit, Amsterdam, June 2023.
- WACV Workshop on Real-World Surveillance: Applications and Challenges, virtual, January 2023.
- AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series, virtual, November 2021.
- Huawei Cloud Service Summit, Finland, November 2021.
- ICCV Tutorial on on Reviewing the Review Process, virtual, October 2021.
- ICCV Tutorial on Multi-Modality Learning from Videos and Beyond, virtual, October 2021.
- ICCV Tutorial on Large-Scale Holistic Video Understanding, virtual, October 2021.
- MM Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Multimedia, China, October 2021.
- Fifth IPM Advanced School on Computing: Artificial Intelligence, Iran, September 2021.
- IEEE CASS Seasonal School on New Trends of Visual and Language Understanding, China, August 2021.
- International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Praha, June 2021.
- WACV Workshop on Biased and Scarce Data, Hawaii, January 2021.
- MM Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis, Seattle, October 2020.
- SRI International, New Jersey, September 2020.
- Huawei International Video Intelligence Forum, Dublin, Ireland, September 2020.
- Samsung AI Center Cambridge, UK, June 2020.
- Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, November 2019.
- Qualcomm, Seoul, Korea, November 2019.
- ICCV Workshop on Learning Concepts – Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shot and Beyond, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.
- ICCV Workshop on Video Retrieval Methods and Their Limits, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.
- ICCV Workshop on Large-Scale Video Understanding, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.
- ICCV Workshop on Multi-modal video analysis, Seoul, Korea, October 2019.
- ICCV Workshop Toward Human-Level Video Story Understanding, October 2019.
- BMVA Symposium on Video Understanding, London, UK, September 2019.
- CVPR Workshop on Multi-modal learning from videos, Long Beach, USA, June 2019.
- Facebook AI Video Summit, Los Angeles, USA, June 2019.
- Huawei, Shenzhen, China, May 2019.
- IIT-PAVIS, Genoa, Italy, May 2019.
- Holland Innovation Seminar, Singapore, February 2019.
- WACV Workshop on Human Activity Detection in Multi-Camera, Continuous, Long-Duration Video, Hawaii, USA, January 2019.
- International Conference on Big Scientific Data Management, Beijing, China, November 2018.
- Renmin University, Beijing, China, November 2018.
- CVPR Workshop on Video Understanding, Salt Lake City, USA, June 2018.
- Qualcomm, San Diego, USA, June 2018.
- Machines Can See Conference, Moscow, Russia, June 2018.
- EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018.
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2018.
- University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, November 2017.
- CVPR Workshop on Brave New Motion, Honolulu, USA, July 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
- ICAI Summerschool, Amsterdam, June 2025.
- Het Politie AI Congres, Utrecht, June 2025.
- SURF Advanced Computing User Day, December 2024.
- AI@VU, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 2024.
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, April 2024.
- ChatGPT: een jaar na lancering, KNAW, November 2023.
- Transformers at Work, Amsterdam, September 2022.
- Don Bosco College, Volendam, January 2022.
- Amsterdam AI Tech Week, October 2021.
- Lunch at ICAI, September 2021.
- Van Mierlo Stichting, April 2021.
- Florence Nightingale Colloquium, Leiden, December 2020.
- Teknowlogy, Maarssen, November 2020.
- Lunch at ICAI, October 2020.
- NVPHBV, Amsterdam, November 2019.
- Gemeente Edam-Volendam, November 2019.
- SPUI25, Amsterdam, May 2019.
- Thalia Symposium, Radboud University, March 2019.
- SPUI25, Amsterdam, March 2019.
- Gemeente Amsterdam, February 2019.
- SNIC, SingularIT, Haarlem, November 2018.
- Business Cluster Semiconductors Netherlands, Heteren, July 2018.
- French Tech Amsterdam, May 2018.
- Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, April 2018.
- MAGNIMS workshop, Amsterdam, April 2018.
- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, February 2018.
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, January 2018.
- Radboud University, Nijmegen, December 2017.
- Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, October 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
- PI of NWO Open Technology project: Real-Time Video Surveillance Search. December 2019.
- 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
- 2025, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.
- 2024, best paper award, CVPR workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization.
- 2021, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.
- 2020, SIGMM test of time paper award, honourable mention.
- 2020, outstanding reviewer, NeurIPS.
- 2019, outstanding reviewer, CVPR.
- 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
- Ivona Najdenkoska, Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Yuki M Asano, Nanne van Noord, Marcel Worring, Cees G M Snoek : TULIP: Token-length Upgraded CLIP. arXiv:2410.10034, 2024.
- Christina Sartzetaki, Gemma Roig, Cees G M Snoek, Iris I A Groen: One Hundred Neural Networks and Brains Watching Videos: Lessons from Alignment. bioRxiv 2024.12.05.626975, 2024.
- Zehao Xiao, Cees G M Snoek: Beyond Model Adaptation at Test Time: A Survey. arXiv:2411.03687, 2024.
- Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Cees G M Snoek: Low-Resource Vision Challenges for Foundation Models. In: CVPR, 2024.
- Piyush Bagad, Makarand Tapaswi, Cees G M Snoek: Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models with a Sense of Time. In: CVPR, 2023.
Patents
- Several granted, a dozen pending.