other recent activities

ImageCLEF 2010

Co-organizer of the Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task of ImageCLEF 2010.
The MIRFLICKR-25k image collection is used as benchmarking set.

MIR Flickr Evaluation: The Challenge of Visual Concept Detection

Co-chair of special session at MIR 2010.

ImageCLEF 2009

Co-organizer of the Large Scale Visual Concept Detection and Annotation Task of ImageCLEF 2009.
The MIRFLICKR-25k image collection is used as benchmarking set.

BRICKS VIRSI 2009 Workshop

Organizer of the BRICKS Workshop on Visual Information Retrieval Using Synthetic Imagery (VIRSI) 2009.

MIR 2008

Publicity Chair of Multimedia Information Retrieval 2008, Vancouver, Canada.

LAPP-Top

Organization and coordination of the LAPP-Top 2008, 2009 and 2010 Advanced Computer Science Programs.
The program aims to introduce talented high school (VWO) students to interesting fields of research in computer science.

Student impressions (pdf file).
Pictures excursion (pdf file) to Joost.

This year the program includes an excursion to Hyves in Amsterdam.

Bachelor and Master Projects

Supervision of Bachelor and Master Projects, preferably on topics involving Multimedia Retrieval, Computer Vision/Image Processing, or Pattern Recognition/Machine Learning. Details.

Program Committees

CBMI 2010-2011, VISAPP 2005-2011, IMCE 2009, MIR 2008, ACIVS 2006