News
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[June 2024] Tim Alpherts' paper "Perceptive Visual Urban Analytics is Not (Yet) Suitable for Municipalities" has been accepted and published at the ACM FAccT Conference.
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[February 2024] Yen-Chia Hsu's project "Citizen Science for Spotting Toxic Clouds with AI" is funded by the Dutch NWO's Open Science Fund (€41721).
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[January 2024] UvA will host the MMM 2024 conference, and the MultiX lab plays an important role in the organization!
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[December 2023] MultiX is in NeurIPS ("Episodic Multi-Task Learning with Heterogeneous Neural Processes").
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[December 2023] Yen-Chia Hsu's previous work is on the EenVandaag Dutch TV (link to the TV program 00:08 to 11:40 and link to the news article).
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[October 2023] MultiX is represented in ICCV 2023 ("Prototype-based Dataset Comparison" and "Cross-modal Scalable Hyperbolic Hierarchical Clustering").
For old news, please check this archived news page.
Events
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[8 October 2024, 13:00] PhD thesis defense (Jiayi Shen) at UvA Agnietenkapel
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[18 October 2024, 11:00] PhD thesis defense (Jia-Hong Huang) at UvA Aula (Oude Lutherse kerk)
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[8 November 2024, 11:00] PhD thesis defense (Maarten Sukel) at UvA Aula (Oude Lutherse kerk)
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[19 December 2024, 17:00] PhD thesis defense (Sarah Ibrahimi) at UvA Aula (Oude Lutherse kerk)
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[14 March 2025, 14:00] PhD thesis defense (Tom van Sonsbeek) at UvA Aula (Oude Lutherse kerk)
Team
Alumni
Paticipation in ICAI Labs
MultiX participates in the following labs of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence:
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The AIM Lab (AI for Medical Imaging) is a collaborative initiative of the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence from the United Arab Emirates and the University of Amsterdam. It focuses on using artificial intelligence for medical image recognition.
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The National Police Lab AI is a collaborative initiative of the Dutch Police, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, and TU Delft. They aim to develop state-of-the-art AI techniques to improve safety in the Netherlands in a socially, legally, and ethically responsible way.
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The AI4Forensics Lab is a collaborative initiative of the Netherlands Forensic Institute and the University of Amsterdam. Our focus is on the study and development of artificial intelligence for forensic purposes.
List of Funded Grants
AI4Intelligence: from Multimodal Data to Trustworthy Evidence in Court
- Primarily funded by NWO and co-funded by others (€1.5M), 09/2022 - 09/2028
- Law enforcement has to process huge amounts of data derived from online platforms, digital marketplaces, or communication services, where AI can serve as a solution. In AI4Intelligence we allow AI tool development, the use of these tools by investigators, and legal regulations to go hand in hand so that investigations can lead to trustworthy evidence that is admissible in court.
- Partners: Nationale Politie, NFI, Sustainable Rescue Foundation, TNO, Microsoft, SynerScope BV, CFLW Cyber Strategies, DuckDuck0Goose, ZiuZ Forensics BV, BG.legal, The Hague Court of Appeal, Innovation Team Testlab OM
- Link to the News
AI4FILM
- Funded by ClickNL (€387K), 09/2022 - 09/2026
- With this project, we aim to develop novel AI techniques that are tailored to film by learning from analysis, production practice, and theory.
- Partners: Kaspar
VisXP: Interactive Visual Exploration of Media Archives
- Funded by ClickNL (€391K), 02/2021 - 12/2023
- This project aims to make AI technology widely applicable within media archives based on interactive learning interfaces that enable users to explore the data visually. This requires research into combining the different types of data sources within archives, both for analysis and for displaying and visualizing with an interface.
- Partners: The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, RTL Nederland
- Project Link
List of Demos
PanorAMS: Automatic Annotation for Detecting Objects in Urban Context
The PanorAMS framework involves a method to automatically generate bounding box annotations in geo-referenced panoramic images based on geospatial context information.
We acquire large-scale (albeit noisy) annotations from open data sources.
(website link, paper link)
TindART: A Personal Visual Arts Recommender
TindART is a web-based visual artwork reccomendation system.
The system has visual analytics controls that allow users to gain a deeper understanding of their art taste and refine their personal recommendation.
(website link, paper link)
OmniArt: A Large-scale Artistic Benchmark
OmniArt is a large scale artistic benchmark dataset aggregated from multiple collections around the world.
It is designed for easy data handling and fast integration with popular deep learning frameworks.
(website link, paper link)
GCNIllustrator: Illustrating the Effect of Hyperparameters on Graph Convolutional Networks
GCNIllustrator is a visual analytics tool for illustrating the effect of hyperparameters on graph convolutional networks (GCNs).
It addresses one of the most tedious steps in training GCNs: the choice of hyperparameters and their influence on performance.
(video demo and paper link)
List of Open Source Courses
Data Science (Third Year of the UvA Bachelor Informatiekunde Program)
This course teaches data science pipelines with three modules in processing structured data, text, and images.
Course materials involve Jupyter Notebooks for hands-on experiences and lectures that explain theories behind the implementations.
(website link)