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I received a Master of Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven , Belgium in 1996. Since my graduation, I've been working at ESAT-PSI, 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. Summer 2010 I visited Trevor Darrell's group at ICSI/EECS UC Berkeley. Since October 2008, I'm appointed research professor (BOF-ZAP) at KU Leuven.
My main interests are computer vision and, in particular, topics related to image representations, vision and language, continual learning, dynamic architectures and more. I have been program chair for ECCV14 and CVPR21, and general chair for CVPR16. I also served as associate-editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision. I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2009, an ERC Advanced Grant in 2021 and received the Koenderink test-of-time award at ECCV16.
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