Arnoud Visser's educational work



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Arnoud's

Educational work

See also the courses of the Intelligent Robotics Lab and my Educational C.V.. When needed, a free educational room can be booked at Science Park.

Teaching

Currently

Applied Machine Learning (2025) - 2nd year Bachelor IK

Behavior-Based Robotics (2015 - now ) - 3th year Bachelor PsychoBiology

Autonomous Mobile Robots (2012-2016, 2025) - 3th year Bachelor AI

Computer Vision 1 (2024 - ) - 1st year Master AI

Vision for Autonomous Robotics (2024 - ) - 2nd year Master AI

Computer Vision 2 (2022 - ) - 2nd year Master AI

Finished

Inleiding Kunstmatige Intelligentie (2019 - 2023) - 1st year Bachelor AI

Information Revolutions (2020 ) - honours Interdisplinair Bachelor

Probabilistic Robotics (2008 -2011, 2017-2018) - Master AI

Media Understanding (2017) - 3th year Bachelor AI

Computer Systems (2003 - 2004, 2009 - 2016) - 2nd year Bachelor AI

Search, Navigate, and Actuate (Zoeken, Sturen, Bewegen) (2004 - 2012),2015-2017
- 1th year Bachelor AI

Honours project - 2nd & 3th year Bachelor AI (-2015-2016)

Introduction to AI Robotics (2008-2009)- 1th year Bachelor AI.

Design and Organisation of Autonomous Systems (1995-2009) - 4th year

Bachelor graduation project (2002, - 2004, 2007 - , 2010)
- 3rd year Bachelor AI
Introduction to the workstations at the UvA (2003-2013)- 1th year Informatics Institute.

C++ programmeermethoden ( 2012-2015) - College of Science (1th years and above)

Graduation projects

Master projects

Tom Slik	Segmentation and Point Cloud reconstruction of the faceades of houses for energy-saving renovation	(October 2024)
Simon Stallinga	Using synthetic data to train detection algorithms	(June 2024)
Eva Gmelich Meijling	Foundation models for Satellite data	(June 2024)
Bram Heijblok	Evasion algorithms in the air	(April 2024)

Finished Msc-theses

student	graduated
Jonathan Salzer	Bringing the RT-1-X Foundation Model for Robotic Control to New Embodiments	(Augustus 2024)
Darie Petcu	Learning to Adapt: A Representation Learning Fine-Tuning Method for Incomplete Multispectral Imagery	(Augustus 2024)
Guilly Kolkman	Adapting iTransformer for Early Crop Classification Using Satellite Imagery	(July 2024)
Evaline Bosch	Reading text from multiple cut-out images	(October 2023)
Emily Mes	Visual Feature Detection in RTAB-Map with the Spot Robot: Applicability and Performance Analysis	(July 2023)
Tim Stolp	pixel to vector: translate the world to a map in a single step	(August 2022)
Midas Amersfoort	improving flowcube’s re-identification performance with gan data augmentation (extended abstract)	(August 2022)
Ramon Dop	pitch control metrics to improve the predictions of moments leading to goals in football	(July 2022)
Ruchella Kock	analysis of movements identified by artificial neural network during smartphone use	(July 2021)
Max Crous	polyphonic bird sound event detection with convolutional recurrent neural networks	(July 2019)
Fabrizio Ambrogi	evolving a spiking neural network controller for low gravity environments	(October 2018)
Anouk Visser	resizing images with cair - content-aware image resizing for fast object detection on a nature conservative drone	(October 2016)
Djura Smits	deadline driven behavior in intelligent virtual environments	(January 2015)
Giorgos Methenitis	Evolution of soft robots by novelty search	(December 2014)
Mircea Trăichioiu	Hierarchical Decision Theoretic Planning for RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation	(October 2014)
Jaysinh Sagar	Obstacle Avoidance using Monocular Vision on Micro Aerial Vehicles	(May 2014)
Nick Dijkshoorn	Simultaneous localization and mapping with the AR.Drone	(July 2012)
Christiaan Meijer	Getting a kick out of humanoid robotics Using reinforcement learning to shape a soccer kick	(July 2012)
Sander van Noort	Validation of the dynamics of a humanoid robot in USARSim	(May 2012)
David de Bos	Experimental Comparison of SLAM Methods	(January 2012)
Štefan Konečný	Lossless clustering of multi-agent beliefs to approximate large horizon DecPOMDPs	(October 2011)
Tijn Schmits	Development of a Catadioptric Omnidirectional Camera for the USARSim Environment	(June 2008)
Martijn Liem	Constructing A Hybrid Algorithm for Tracking and Following People using a Robotic Dog	(April 2008)
Tim van Oosterhout	Robot Proxemics	(December 2007)
David Knibbe	A Dutch Trick: the aiBo Blindfold Challenge	(August 2007)
Kader el Oufir	Suitability of Bayesian Networks for the Inference and Completion of Genetic Networks using Microarray Data	(June 2007)
Jürgen Sturm	An appearance-based visual compass for mobile robots	(December 2006)
Max Pfingsthorn, Bayu Slamet	ManifoldSLAM: a Multi-Agent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System for the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robots Competition	(December 2006)
Maurits Fassaert, Stef Post	A communication and coordination model for `RoboCupRescue' agents	(June 2004)
Koen Böinck	Improving control of the MARIE robot	(September 2003)
Ilja Breuker	ALIE - Advanced Logistics Information Exchange	(April 2003)
Erik de Ruiter	An experimental platform for MARIE	(May 2003)
Joost Zoetebier	The Virtual Traffic Lab	(August 2002)
Mathieu Hommes	Vrienden OV - Een demonstratie van een mogelijke mobiele toepassing	(May 2001)
Frank Terpstra	Een on-line planner voor MARIE	(March 2001)

Research project Master

Marina Orozco Gonzalez, Ricardo Chavez Torres, Danilo Toapanta Barahona, Robin Reitsma, Gijs de Jong, Harold Ruiter, Occupancy and Flow challenge CV2 project, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 13, 2024.
Lucas Ponticelli, Taiki Papandreou-Lazos, Erik Meijer, Bart de Zwart, Luuk Versteeg, Tobie Werner, Mapless Driving challenge, CV2 project, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 12, 2024.
Leon Eshuijs, SpotMicroAI: a micro step towards intelligent locomotion, project report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, February 10, 2023.
Ryan Amaudruz, Dorian Bekaert, Milena Kapralova, Darie Palfi, Bogdan Petcu, Alexandru Turcu, Robotic Vision Scene Understanding Challenge , CV2 project, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2, 2023.