Interactive Video Retrieval
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Dr. Snoek received the M.Sc. degree in business information systems (2000) and the Ph.D. degree in computer science (2005) both from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he is currently a Veni research fellow at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam. He was a Visiting Scientist at Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA in 2003. His research interests focus on multimedia signal processing and analysis, statistical pattern recognition, content-based information retrieval, social media retrieval, and large-scale benchmark evaluations, especially when applied in combination for video retrieval. He has published over 70 refereed book chapters, journal and conference papers in these fields, and serves on the program committee of several conferences. Dr. Snoek is a lead researcher of the award-winning MediaMill Semantic Video Search Engine, which is a consistent top performer in the yearly NIST TRECVID evaluations. He is co-initiator and co-organizer of the annual VideOlympics, and was the local chair of the 2007 ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval. He is a lecturer of post-doctoral courses given at international conferences and European summer schools. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. Dr. Snoek received a young talent (Veni) grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in 2008.

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