Steven Verstockt

Steven Verstockt is a Professor at Ghent University’s Department of Electronics and Information Systems, affiliated with the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab) and the Multimedia Lab. His research spans

• multimodal data processing
• computer vision
• video analytics
• geospatial information technology
• sports data science

domains. He leads interdisciplinary projects in sports, media, and cultural heritage, focusing on spatio-temporal data collection, classification, and visualization.

Recent research trends highlight his work in

• CO2-based occupancy detection
• BIM semantic enrichment
• multi-camera sports analytics
• geosocial media mining
• historical archive digitization
• hyperspectral image classification

published across 2025–2024. His team combines computer vision, machine learning, and geospatial tools for real-world applications.