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

  • [2026-2] Congratulations to Dr. Duy-Kien Nguyen for obtaining the doctorate degree.
  • [2026-1] 7 papers accepted at ICLR.
  • [2025-12] Congratulations to Dr. Amber Brands for obtaining the doctorate degree.
  • [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.

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Accuracy of deep learning-based AI models for early caries lesion detection: the influence of annotation quality and reference choice

Clinical Oral Investigations
Ricardo E Gonzalez-Valenzuela, Pascal Mettes, Bruno G Loos, Henk Marquering, Erwin Berkhout
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Accuracy of deep learning-based AI models for early caries lesion detection: the influence of annotation quality and reference choice

Elastic ViTs from Pretrained Models without Retraining

NeurIPS 2025
Walter Simoncini, Michael Dorkenwald, Tijmen Blankevoort, Cees G.M. Snoek, Yuki M. Asano
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Elastic ViTs from Pretrained Models without Retraining

Minimizing Hyperbolic Embedding Distortion with LLM-guided Hierarchy Restructuring

KCAP 2025
Melika Ayoughi, Pascal Mettes, Paul Groth
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Minimizing Hyperbolic Embedding Distortion with LLM-guided Hierarchy Restructuring

The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025
Wenfang Sun, Xinyuan Song, Pengxiang Li, Lu Yin, Yefeng Zheng, Shiwei Liu
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The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models

Variational Task Vector Composition

NeurIPS 2025
Boyuan Zhang, Yingjun Du, Xiantong Zhen, Ling Shao
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Variational Task Vector Composition
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3D computer vision Action and behavior recognition action localization action recognition AI for Health Causal Representation Learning few-shot learning generative model hyperbolic learning 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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