Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Jan-Mark Geusebroek received the B.Sc. in electronic engineering (1992) and the Ph.D. degree in computer science (2000) from the University of Amsterdam, where he is currently assistant professor at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam. He was academic visitor in the group of Andrew Zisserman (Feb-Dec 2006), Oxford University. His research interests focus on scene understanding for computer vision, with emphasis on natural image statistics, physics-based vision, and statistical machine learning for vision. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers, of which many appeared in the high-impact journals and conferences in the field. His work has been cited over a broad area of science, besides artificial intelligence also in hardcore computer science, optical physics, visual perception, and the neurosciences. Furthermore, he has developed the enabling technology for MIAS-2, the Digilab MAIA SCIENTIFIC high content microscopy reader. The system is used from basic stem cell research, in applied pharmaceutical compound screenings, to environmental waste water control. He serves on the program committee of the high impact ICCV, CVPR, and ECCV conferences, and as Area Chair for BMVC in 2006.
Dr. Geusebroek won the E.S. Gelsema prize for his Ph.D. thesis, awarded by the IAPR branch of the Netherlands. He received a young talent (VENI) grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 2004. He won a most visionary research award at the AAAI international conference in 2007. He was the coauthor of the Best Student Paper with Victoria Yanulevskaya at VISAPP 2009. He is a member of the IEEE.

Personal Details

Name

• dr. Jan-Mark Geusebroek

Office

• Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam
  Informatics Institute
  Faculty of Science
  University of Amsterdam
  Science Park 107
  NL-1098 XG Amsterdam
  The Netherlands

Contact

• E: geusebroek AT uva DOT nl
  T: +31-(0)20-525-7552
  F: +31-(0)20-525-7490
  W: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mark

Education

Doctorate

• 1995 - 2000
  Computer Science, University of Amsterdam
  Title of thesis: Color and Geometrical Structure in Images.
  Advisors: prof. dr. ir. Arnold W.M. Smeulders and dr. Hugo Geerts (University of Antwerp)

Bachelor’s

• 1987 - 1992
  Electronic Engineering, Rens&Rens, Hilversum.
  

Professional Appointments

Researcher

• 2002 - present
  Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 2000 - 2002
  Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Visiting Researcher

• Feb-Dec 2006
  Robotics Research Group, Oxford University, UK.
  Advisor: prof. dr. Andrew Zisserman.

Scholarships, Grants, Prizes

Scholarships

• 1996 - 1999
  Janssen Research Foundation post-graduate scholarship

Grants

• Main-author of COMMIT work-package: Visual identity resolution.
  Principal Investigator: dr. J.M. Geusebroek (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 285K Euro, 2010.
• Co-author and co-applicant of Philips Research proposal: DIV: Depth Information from Video.
  Principal Investigator: Prof. dr. ir. A.W.M. Smeulders (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 200K Euro, 2006.
• Co-author and work-package leader of EU-FP6-NEST proposal: PERCEPT: Perceptual Consciousness - Explication and Testing.
  Coordinator: Prof. dr. Boris Velichkovsky (Technical University of Dresden), 2006.
  Principal Investigator: dr. J.M. Geusebroek (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 217K Euro, total 1.8M Euro, 2006.
• Main-author of NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (”VENI”) proposal: A computational theory for visual cognition based on invariant representations.
  Principal Investigator: dr. J.M. Geusebroek (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 260K Euro, 2004.
• Main-author of BSIK MultimediaN work-package: Learning of Image Content using Context.
  Principal Investigator: dr. J.M. Geusebroek (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 250K Euro, 2004.
• Main-author of University funds proposal: Quality of Invariant Image Features.
  Principal Investigator: dr. J.M. Geusebroek (University of Amsterdam)
  Funding obtained: 200K Euro, 2002.

Awards

• Co-author of the Best Student Paper with Victoria Yanulevskaya at the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, VISAPP 2009.
• Most visionary research award with Frank J. Seinstra at the AAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.
• VENI innovational research incentive grant (260 kEuro) by the Dutch Scientific Organization NWO. This grant has been awarded to me as to one of the five best young researchers of exact sciences in the Netherlands in 2003.
• E.S. Gelsema prize for the best thesis in the period 2000-2002 by the IAPR branch of the Netherlands.
• Best reviewer award awarded by the British Machine Vision Association, 2008.
• Recipient of the best technical demonstration award at ACM Multimedia 2005.

Scientific Benchmarks

• Winner of the PASCAL-VOC Visual Object Categorisation benchmark as a member of the University of Amsterdam team, 2008
• First ranked in the TRECVID video retrieval benchmark, concept detection task, as a member of the University of Amsterdam team, 2008 and 2004.

Professional Services

• Program committee of, among others, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recogntion (CVPR), British Machine Vision Conference (also Area Chair in 2006), International Workshop on Texture Analysis and synthesis (Texture).
• Participant in the FP5-EU research network ECVision for cognitive computer vision systems, and in the FP6-EU DELOS Network of Excellence for digital libraries.
• Reviewer for, among others, IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optics Letters.

Invited Presentations

Ten Selected

• 6th International Workshop on Data – Algorithms – Decision Making, Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic, 2010
• Bath University, Bath, UK, February 2009.
• University of Genova, Genova, Italy, March 2008.
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2007.
• Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2007.
• University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2006.
• University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, August 2006.
• University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, May 2005.
• Institute for Theoretical Studies in Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran, 2004.
• Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2004.

Educational Activities

Lecturer

• Undergraduate course on Computer Vision.
• Undergraduate course on Intelligent Systems (auc).
• Undergraduate course on Multimedia Information Systems.
• Undergraduate course on Linear Algebra & Matlab.
• Graduate course on Measuring features, together with Prof. dr. L. van Vliet (TU Delft) and Prof. dr. A.W.M. Smeulders.
• Undergraduate course on Photorealistic Rendering (until 2008).
• Undergraduate course on Advanced Multimedia Systems (until 2005).

Coordination

• Coordinator of the track Intelligent Systems of the Master Artificial Intelligence (University of Amsterdam)

Supervisor Responsibilities

Post-Graduates

• Victoria Yanulevskaya, 2007-2011.
• Vladimir Nedovic, co-supervisor (supervisor Prof. dr. ir. A.W.M. Smeulders), 2006-2010.
• Jan van Gemert, PhD obtained at September 24th, 2010 (University of Amsterdam).
• Alireza Tavakoli Targhi, co-supervisor (supervisor Prof. dr. Jan-Olof Eklundh), PhD obtained at November 25th, 2009 (KTH Stockholm).
• Gertjan Burghouts, PhD obtained at November 16th, 2007 (University of Amsterdam).

Publications

Summary

• Total: 60+ publications ( 20+ journals; of which 8 in PAMI and IJCV)
• H-index: 16 (source: Google Scholar on August 28th, 2009)
• Citations: 1250+ (source: Google Scholar on August 28th, 2009)

Five Selected

• Vladimir Nedovic, Arnold W.M. Smeulders, and Jan-Mark Geusebroek.
  Stages as models of scene geometry.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(9):1673-1687, 2010.
• Jan van Gemert, Cor J. Veenman, Arnold W.M. Smeulders, and Jan-Mark Geusebroek.
  Visual word ambiguity.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 32(7):1271-1283, 2010.
• Jan-Mark Geusebroek and Arnold W.M. Smeulders.
  A six-stimulus theory for stochastic texture.
  International Journal of Computer Vision, 62(1/2):7-16, 2005.
• Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Gertjan J. Burghouts, and Arnold W.M. Smeulders.
  The Amsterdam library of object images.
  International Journal of Computer Vision, 61(1):103-112, 2005.
• Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Rein van den Boomgaard, Arnold W.M. Smeulders, and Hugo Geerts.
  Color invariance.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 23(12):1338-1350, 2001.

Patent Applications

• Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Robust autofocus system for a microscope, WO0075709, 2000;
  Patent granted in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.
• Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Method and apparatus for image characterization, WO2007004868, 2006.
• Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Visual object recognition, WO2007004864, 2005.