Thomas Mensink

News

may'18 | The project Spotting Audio-Visual Inconsistencies with SRI and IDIAP aired in the news this week(s): including AG Connect (in Dutch), Tech Crunch, CBS news (with the program leader), and (again) AG Connect (in dutch, more in detail, (local pdf copy)).
mar'18 | Two papers accepted for ICLR Workshops:
- DeepNCM: Deep Nearest Class Mean Classifiers, with Samantha Guerriero and Barbara Caputo, see openreview and the code on GitHub
- IterGANs for Object Rotation, with Ysbrand Galama, see openreview, the extended version on arXiv, and source code on GitHub.
jan'18 | Fisher Vector code on Github
dec'17 | Rijksmuseum Challenge: code on github and data on figshare
aug'17 | Video recordings of ZSL 2017 are online
july'17 | Slides of the Zeros Shot Learning tutorial are online
july'17 | I've been awarded an outstanding reviewer award for CVPR 2017
july'17 | 5 MSc Information Studies students graduated this month, congrats!
july'17 | Samantha Guerriero (student from Barbara Caputo @ Sapienza in Rome) is visiting to work on metric learning
may'17 | Video with results of our ICMR paper is online
apr'17 | I will present at Spui25 on the topic of "quantifying love" (in dutch, April 19th).
apr'17 | ICMR paper accepted: "Music-Guided Video Summarization" (see pdf below), together with Thomas Jongstra, Pascal Mettes and Cees Snoek.
apr'17 | I have a MSc AI thesis project opening on historical inpainting by incorporating prior knowledge, see pdf. Drop me a line when interested!
apr'17 | Our CVPR'17 proposal for the Zero-shot Learning tutorial has been accepted
apr'17 | Our ICCV'17 proposal for the 5th Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media (VSM) has been accepted
mar'17 | The automark software, to automatically check progress of python programming exercises, developped by Spencer is now available on GitHub!
feb'17 | Open position: 3D Computer Vision from a single image, (deadline closed), for future reference see (pdf).
feb'17 | I started as Assistant Professor in 3D Deep Learning in the Computer Vision group of Theo Gevers at the UvA.

Recent Publications

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galama18iclrw

IterGANs: Iterative GANs for Rotating Visual Objects

Ysbrand Galama, Thomas Mensink
In International Conference on Learning Representations - Workshop (ICLRw) | 2018.
[bibtex] [pdf] [poster] [code] [arxiv]

guerriero18iclrw

DeepNCM: Deep Nearest Class Mean Classifiers

Samantha Guerriero, Barbara Caputo, Thomas Mensink
In International Conference on Learning Representations - Workshop (ICLRw) | 2018.
[bibtex] [pdf] [poster] [code]

cappallo18arxiv

The New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

Spencer Cappallo, Stacey Svetlichnaya, Pierre Garrigues, Thomas Mensink, Cees Snoek
| 2018 | ArXiV preprint (1801.10253).
[bibtex] [pdf] [arxiv]

bolles17cvprwmf

SAVI: Spotting Audio-Visual Inconsistencies in Manipulated Video

Robert Bolles, Brian Burns, Martin Graciarena, Andreas Kathol, Aaron Lawson, Mitchell McLaren, Thomas Mensink
In CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics | 2017.
[bibtex] [pdf]

mensink17icmr

Music-Guided Video Summarization using Quadratic Assignments

Thomas Mensink, Thomas Jongstra, Pascal Mettes, Cees Snoek
In ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) | 2017 | Spotlight.
[bibtex] [pdf] [video]

habibian16pami

Video2vec Embeddings Recognize Events when Examples are Scarce

Amir Habibian, Thomas Mensink, Cees Snoek
In Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) | 2016 | to appear.
[bibtex] [pdf] [arxiv]

Teaching
- 2017 Computer Vision II, MSc AI
- 2016 Applied Machine Learning, MSc IS (HCM and DS track)
- 2013-2015 Visual Search Engines, MSc IS (HCM track)
Current MSc Supervision
- MSc IS 2017: Daniël Bartolomé-Rojas, Diederik Beker, Michal Kozal, Yu-Ri Tan, Madli Uutma, Bastiaan Waanders, and Aeron Yung
- Msc AI 2017: Ysbrand Galema, Thomas Jongstra (finished March'17) and Sébastien Negrijn
Current BSc Supervision
- BSc AI 2017: Caitlin Lagrand

Teaching & Supervision