News
2025
Oct 2025 - I have been awarded the prestigious NWO VIDI fellowship, an 850k EUR grant to consolidate my research group
Sep 2025 - One paper accepted in Compupters in Biology and Medicine (congrats Sreyasi)
Aug 2025 - A survey paper on “2D and 3D visual grounding” accepted in the Information Fusion journal (congrats Keyu)
Jun 2025 - One paper accepted at CAIP2025 (main author is Melissa Tijnk - congrats Melissa!)
May 2025 - Together with Estefania Talavera and Alex Stergiou, I co-organized the Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision (NCCV) 2025
May 2025 - I received the ‘Ius Promovendi’ and I am now allowed to act as PhD Promotor and confer PhD degrees at the University of Twente.
Apr 2025 - One paper accepted in Neural Computing and Applications (main author is Peter van der Wal - congrats!).
Apr 2025 - Shunxin Wang defended her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Shunxin!
Apr 2025 - Our paper ‘Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models’ is selected as Highlight at CVPR 2025 (main author is Davide Berasi - congrats Davide!).
Feb 2025 - Two papers accepted at CVPR 2025 (main authors are Shunxin Wang and Davide Berasi - congrats both!).
Feb 2025 - I will be Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
Jan 2025 - Zohra Rezgui defended her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Zohra!
Jan 2025 - One paper accepted at ICLR 2025 (main author is Boqian Wu - congrats Boqian!).
2024
Nov 2024 - My group will organize NCCV (Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision) 2025.
Oct 2024 - Leonardo was born. I became father!
Oct 2024 - Melissa Tijnk (PhD student) wins the best poster award at the 6th SmartRaCon Scientific Seminar
Aug 2024 - One paper accepted at ICPR 2024
Aug 2024 - One paper accepted at IEEE IJCB 2024 special sessions
Jun 2024 - I and Shunxin Wang attended CVPR 2024 and presented the paper “Fourier-basis Functions to Bridge Augmentation Gap: Rethinking Frequency Augmentation in Image Classification”
Jun 2024 - I am a panelist at the CVPR social ‘Challenges/Opportunities for ECRs in Fast Paced AI’
Jun 2024 - One paper accepted at IEEE CASE 2024
May 2024 - We (9 members of the computer vision group at DMB/UT) attended NCCV 2024 and presented several works.
May 2024 - I attended ICRA 2024 and presented the paper “Regressing Transformers for Data-efficient Visual Place Recognition”
Apr 2024 - One paper accepted in IEEE T-BIOM
Apr 2024 - I will be Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024
Mar 2024 - One paper accepted at CVPR 2024
Feb 2024 - One paper accepted at ISBI 2024
Jan 2024 - One paper accepted at ICRA 2024
2023
Dec 2023 - I received an Incentive Grant for a PhD student from EEMCS Faculty together with Silke Glas and Federico Califano
Dec 2023 - I will be Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition
Nov 2023 - Peter van der Wal starts his Phd on robust and sparse vision at University of Groningen (co-advised with George Azzopardi)
Oct 2023 - Maria Leyva Vallina obtained her PhD from the University of Groningen. Congratulations!
Oct 2023 - Shunxin Wang presented our paper ‘What do neural networks learn in image classification? A frequency shortcut perspective’ at ICCV 2023 in Paris
Oct 2023 - One paper accepter at WACV 2024
Sep 2023 - Promoted to Associate Professor (Machine Learning and Computer Vision) at University of Twente
Sep 2023 - Shunxin Wang and I presented several works at NCCV 2024
Sep 2023 - Melissa Tijink started her PhD on robust vision on the ERJU project (co-advised with Luuk Spreeuwers and Estefania Talavera)
Aug 2023 - One paper accepted at VIPriors @ICCV 2023
Jul 2023 - One paper accepted at ICCV 2023
Jun 2023 - Maria Leyva presented our paper ‘Data-efficient Large Scale Place Recognition with Graded Similarity Supervision’ at CVPR 2023 in Vancouver
May 2023 - Luuk Spreeuwers, Estefania Talavera and I got funding on the ERJU project (with ProRail)