Thomas Mensink

PostDoc in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
ISLA, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam

E-mail	firstname.lastname@uva.nl
Homepage	staff.fnwi.uva.nl/t.e.j.mensink www.science.uva.nl/~tmensink
Adress	Science Park 904, 1098 XH , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Room number	C3.236
Phone	+31 (0)20 - 525 7581

News

14.04 | ICMR papers of Pascal and Amir are now available online (see below)
26.03 | Today I've presented at VOGIN IP Lezing a general introduction about classification without examples, here the slides (pptx)
16.03 | Three papers are accepted for ICMR!
12.02 | I have two openings for MSc students (AI/CS) for partly funded MSc thesis research (fullfiled)
28.01 | Markus sucessfully defended his MSc thesis today, congratulations!
06.11 | VideoStory, a paper by Amir, Cees and me, was awarded the best paper award at ACM Multimedia 2014!
04.11 | Today I've presented VideoStory at the ACM Multimedia conference in Orlando. [paper] [slides] [dataset]
27.10 | Together with Jan, I have been awarded an UvA Grassroots for ICT innovation in education, see this page
10.10 | Our paper VideoStory, with Amir and Cees, has been nominated for best paper award at ACM MM 2014
18.09 | Today the UvA Reading group about DeepLearning for Vision started, see the RDG link.
12.09 | I've given an Invited Talk at the Parts and Attributes 2014 (PnA2014) about COSTA.
01.09 | I reached 1000 citations! See my google scholar profile
13.08 | Updated the NCM package to include demo of the NCMC classifier, see code page

Recent papers (2015)

	Latent Factors of Visual Popularity Prediction Spencer Cappallo, Thomas Mensink, Cees Snoek In ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2015. [bibtex] [pdf] [www]
	Bag-of-Fragments: Selecting and encoding video fragments for event detection and recounting Pascal Mettes, Jan van Gemert, Spencer Cappallo, Thomas Mensink, Cees Snoek In ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
	Discovering Semantic Vocabularies for Cross-Media Retrieval Amir Habibian, Thomas Mensink, Cees Snoek In ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]

MSc Information Studies, lecturer & lab-coordinator, Visual Search Engines, Oct - Dec 2014, with Jan van Gemert
MSc Artificial Intelligence, Profile Project, supervisor of one group, June 2014
PhD Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Spencer Capallo, started December 2013 (ongoing), with Cees Snoek
MSc Artificial Intelligence, thesis supervision, Markus Nagel, February 2014 - February 2015, with Cees Snoek
MSc Information Studies, lecturer & lab-coordinator, Multimedia Information Systems, Oct - Dec 2013, with Cees Snoek, Jan van Gemert, and Stratis Gavves
MSc Artificial Intelligence, Profile Project, supervisor of two groups, June 2013, with Jan van Gemert and Ronan Sicre

I'm organizing the DeepLearning for Vision reading group at the UvA, see the webpage here