| Visiting (associate) professor |
Fulbright grant Yale University 1987 City University Hong Kong 1996 ETL Tsukuba Japan 1998 |
| Honorary member | NVPHBV, the Dutch branch of the IAPR 2002 |
| Fellow | Fellow of International Association of Pattern Recognition 2000 |
| Chair of program (five selected) |
IEEE Conf on Multimedia systems, Florence 1999 Area chair for content based retrieval CVPR, Hawaii 2001 Challenge of image and video retrieval, CIVR, Dublin 2004 Congres Van Kijken naar Zien, IOP Beeldverwerking, Bussum, 2007 International Conference Multimedia ICME, Hanover 2008 |
| University of Amsterdam |
Faculty board WINS for finance 1995-1996 Director of Informatics Institute 1996-2001 Director of the Computer Science curriculum 2002-2003 Director of various education programs 2003-2006 Director of ISLA 2004-2009 A founder of the Centre for Creative Content and Technology 2007 |
| Invited Speaker (selection) |
Challlenge of Image and Video Retrieval, London 2002 Waarom weten computers altijd alles, NEMO kinderlezing, 2004 Paradiso lezing, Amsterdam, 2005 PICNIC '07, Amsterdam, 2007 (watch presentation here) ACM-MIR, Augsburg, 2007 CAIP, Vienna, 2007 ICIAP 2007, Modena, 2007 Tingshua University, Beijing, 2007 Amsterdamlezing, Amsterdam, 2007 ESRIN, Frascati, 2008 Deloitte, Utrecht 2008 |
| Panel Contributions |
ICME, Beijing, 2007 ACM-MIR, Augsburg, 2007 |
| Associated editor |
Cytometry 1985 - 2002 IEEE transactions PAMI 1997 - 2001 Transactions Multimedia 2002 - 2008 |
| Special issue editor |
Pattern Recognition Letters, special issue for E.S. Gelsema, 2001 Computer Vision Image Understanding, on similarity, 2002 International Journal on Computer Vision, on content based image retrieval, 2002 |
| Chair organizing committee |
1st International Workshop on Image Databases, Amsterdam, 1996 3rd International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Amsterdam, 1999 ICME-2005, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, 2005 |
| Chair governing committee |
NVPHBV the Dutch chapter of the IAPR 1993 - 1998 TC-12 of the IAPR 1995 - 2000 |
| Tutorials (some recent) |
ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, 2007 CVPR Miami 2009 ICCV Kyoto 2009 |
| Opening Academic year 2008 - 2009 | Verlichte geesten: informatie, cognitie en het brein. View (start at 21:39) |