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 – present 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
2011
IEEE MultiMedia
Organization
2025
Area Chair, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
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.
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 Grant.
Pascal Mettes, 2019-present Pascal is currently an Assistant Professor with tenure at University of Amsterdam.
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
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 AI, 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.
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.
Zehao Xiao, Learning to Generalize at Test Time, University of Amsterdam, 2025.
David Zhang, Learning to Output Sets, University of Amsterdam, 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, Scientifi c 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
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
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
2024, best paper award, CVPR workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization.
Piyush Bagad, Makarand Tapaswi, Cees G M Snoek: Test of Time: Instilling Video-Language Models with a Sense of Time. In: CVPR, 2023.
Vincent Tao Hu, David W Zhang, Yuki M Asano, Gertjan J Burghouts, Cees G M Snoek: Self-Guided Diffusion Models. In: CVPR, 2023.
Zehao Xiao, Xiantong Zhen, Shengcai Liao, Cees G M Snoek: Energy-Based Test Sample Adaptation for Domain Generalization. In: ICLR, 2023.
Yunhua Zhang, Hazel Doughty, Ling Shao, Cees G M Snoek: Audio-Adaptive Activity Recognition Across Video Domains. In: CVPR, 2022.
Yan Zhang, David W Zhang, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Gertjan J Burghouts, Cees G M Snoek: Multiset-Equivariant Set Prediction with Approximate Implicit Differentiation. In: ICLR, Virtual, 2022.
