Arnold Smeulders

Arnold Smeulders is a part-time Full Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Amsterdam and Director of COMMIT at CWI (Netherlands' national research center). He holds an M.Sc in Physics from Delft Technical University (1977) and a PhD in Visual Pattern Analysis from Leyden University (1983). Previously, he held professorships at Erasmus University Rotterdam, VU University Amsterdam, and served as Assistant Professor at Free University Amsterdam.

His research focuses on computer vision, multimedia information analysis, and visual search engines. He leads the ISIS group at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, known for developing award-winning video search technology that ranked top-3 in TRECvid competitions since 2006. The group received 'excellent' ratings in Netherlands Computer Science reviews (2003, 2009).

Major Research Grants

• Principal Investigator: COMMIT (100M€, 2012-2016)
• Principal Investigator: MultimediaN (32M€, 2004-2008)
• Principal Investigator: VidiVideo EU-Strep (2007-2010)

Honors & Leadership

• Co-founded university spin-off Euvision (2010)
• Served as editor for IEEE Transactions on PAMI/MM and International Journal of Computer Vision
• Chaired ACM/IEEE conferences including ACM Multimedia 2010 and ECCV 2016