Video & Image Sense Lab

We make sense of video and images with artificial and human intelligence. The lab studies computer vision, deep learning and cognitive science. We are based at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam.

The VIS Lab embeds four public-private AI labs. QUVA Lab with Qualcomm, Atlas Lab with TomTom, AIM Lab with the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence and POP-AART with the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Elekta Oncology Systems. Spin-off's from the lab include Kepler Vision Technologies and Ellogon.ai.

News

  • [2025-11] Congratulations to Dr. Yingjun Du for obtaining the doctorate degree, cum laude.
  • [2025-10] Iris Groen and Pascal Mettes awarded NWO Vidi Grant.
  • [2025-9] 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS.
  • [2025-7] Congratulations to Yingjun Du for being awarded a ‘2024 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad’.
  • [2025-6] 5 papers accepted at ICCV.
  • [2025-6] Congratulations to Dr. Zehao Xiao for obtaining the doctorate degree.
  • [2025-5] 3 papers accepted at ICML.
  • [2025-2] 6 papers accepted at CVPR.
  • [2025-2] Congratulations to Dr. Phillip Lippe for obtaining the doctorate degree, cum laude.
  • [2025-1] 13 papers accepted at ICLR.
  • [2024-11] Congratulations to Dr. Yunhua Zhang for obtaining the doctorate degree.
  • [2024-10] Congratulations to former VIS-lab staff member Dr. Yuki Asano for being promoted to Full Professor at University of Technology Nuremberg.

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Probabilistic Prototype Calibration of Vision-Language Models for Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

ICCV 2025
Jie Liu, Jiayi Shen, Pan Zhou, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Efstratios Gavves
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Probabilistic Prototype Calibration of Vision-Language Models for Generalized Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

TWIST & SCOUT: Grounding Multimodal LLM-Experts by Forget-Free Tuning

ICCV 2025
Aritra Bhowmik, Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Dennis Koelma, Yuki M. Asano, Martin R. Oswald, Cees G. M. Snoek
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TWIST & SCOUT: Grounding Multimodal LLM-Experts by Forget-Free Tuning

Probabilistic Interactive 3D Segmentation with Hierarchical Neural Processes

ICML 2025
Jie Liu, Pan Zhou, Zehao Xiao, Jiayi Shen, Wenzhe Yin, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Efstratios Gavves
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Probabilistic Interactive 3D Segmentation with Hierarchical Neural Processes

SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models

ICML 2025
Cansu Sancaktar, Christian Gumbsch, Andrii Zadaianchuk, Pavel Kolev, Georg Martius
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SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models

Commonsense Video Question Answering through Video-Grounded Entailment Tree Reasoning

CVPR 2025
Huabin Liu, Filip Ilievski, Cees G. M. Snoek
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Commonsense Video Question Answering through Video-Grounded Entailment Tree Reasoning
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3D computer vision Action and behavior recognition action localization action recognition AI for Health Causal Representation Learning Continual Learning few-shot learning generative model Image retrieval low-shot Motion and tracking Multi-modal learning Recognition (object detection, categorization) Self-supervised learning semi- and un-supervised learning Transfer Transfer, low-shot, semi- and un-supervised learning Video analysis and understanding Visual reasoning and logical representation

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