Tinne Tuytelaars

 

Email: 
Tinne.Tuytelaars@esat.kuleuven.be
Phone: +32-16-32.1090
Fax: +32-16-32.1723

Address:
ESAT-PSI - bus 02441
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B-3001 Leuven
BELGIUM 

Office: 91.66

 

    
Position
Professor
 
Background
I received a Master of Electrical Engineering from the  K.U. Leuven , Belgium in 1996. Since my graduation, I've been working at the  VISICS -lab within  ESAT - PSI   of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , where I defended my PhD on december 19, 2000, entitled "Local Invariant Features for Registration and Recognition".
During most of 2006 and early 2007, I was also parttime (20%) visiting scientist at the LEAR group of INRIA in Grenoble.
Summer 2008, I visited the Making Sense from Data group at NICTA in Canberra, Australia.
Since October 2008, I'm appointed research professor (BOF-ZAP) at the K.U.Leuven.
 
Research Interests
  • Local invariant features
  • Object recognition 
  • Wide baseline stereo
  • Multi-modal analysis
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    Publications
    list of publications

    Ongoing Projects
  • CLASS: Cognitive-Level Annotation using Latent Statistical Structure (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2009)
    (object class recognition, alignment of visual and textual data)
  • AMASS: Advanced Multimedia Alignment and Structured Summarization (May 2007 - April 2011)
    (object class recognition, alignment of visual and textual data, summarization)
  • DIRAC: Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2010)
    (object recognition, feature selection, cognitive loops)
  • Context-aware 3D
  • BeeldCanon: Providing access to the rich Dutch-Flemish Image Culture (Sept. 2008 - August 2012)
  • COGNIMUND: Cognitive image understanding (Feb. 2010 - Jan. 2015)
  • VASI: Vocabulary acquisition based on speech and images (Oct. 2009 - Sep. 2013)
  • iCocoon: the next generation video conferencing tools (April 2010 - March 2012)
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    Past Projects
  • REVEAL-THIS : Retrieval of Video and Language for The Home user in an Information Society (Nov. 2004 - April 2007)
    (face recognition, visual summarization)
  • AMS: Advanced Mechatronical Systems (Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006)
    (vision-based navigation of a mobile wheelchair)
  • ERMIS: Emotionally Rich Man-Machine Interaction Systems (Jan. 2002- Dec. 2004)
  • CogViSys: Cognitive Vision Systems (May 2001 - April 2004)
  • VIBES: VIdeo Browsing, Exploration and Structuring (Dec. 2000 - April 2004)
  • CIMWOS: Combined Image and WOrd Spotting (March 2000 - Sept. 2003)
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    PhD Students
  • Jan Hendrik Becker
  • Michael Desmet
  • Chris Engels
  • Geert Willems
  • Sebastian Zimmer
  • Glen Debard
  • Kristof Van Beeck

    • Past PhD students
  • dr. Andreas Turina (ETH)
  • dr. Vitto Ferrari (ETH)
  • dr. Herbert Bay (ETH)
  • dr. Toon Goedeme
  • dr. Alexander Thomas

    • Teaching
  • I gave a tutorial at ECCV06 on the use of Local Invariant Features.
  • I also gave a tutorial on Local Feature Based Object Recognition at the Summer Workshop on Multi-Sensory Modalities in Cognitive Science together with Bastian Leibe. The slides can be found here

    • Workshops
  • Co-organizer of the 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR2007)
  • Co-organizer of the first Workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition, held in conjunction with ICCV07
  • Co-organizer of the fourth International Workshop on Object Recognition, 16-18 May 2008.
  • Co-organizer of the second Workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition, held in conjunction with ICCV09
  • Co-organizer of the first Workshop on Features: the State of the Art and Beyond, held in conjunction with CVPR09
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    Activities
  • Member of the Editorial Board of CVIU
  • Area Chair for ECCV 2008, CVPR 2009, ECCV 2010
  • Program committee member of ECCV (2004, 2006)
  • Program committee member of ICCV (2005, 2009)
  • Program committee member of CVPR (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
  • Reviewer for NIPS (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Regular reviewer for IJCV, TPAMI

    • Awards/grants
  • FWO PhD fellowship 1996-2000
  • Barco prijs voor afstudeerwerken 1996 (Barco prize for master theses)
  • FWO post-doctoral fellowship 2002-2006
  • FWO-Barco wetenschappelijke prijs 2003 (FWO-Barco scientific prize)
  • Outstanding reviewer award ICCV05
  • FWO post-doctoral fellowship extension 2006-2009
  • Outstanding reviewer award CVPR07
  • ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant 2009
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