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I am co-organising a workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare at BMVC 2026.
I am chairing the workshop “Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare: Methods and Applications” at BMVC 2026 in Lancaster, United Kingdom. We look forward to bringing together researchers working at the intersection of multimodal learning and healthcare! Workshop website.
2026
New editorial appointments.
I joined Pattern Recognition as an Associate Editor. I look forward to supporting the research community through this new role!
I am co-organising the Video4Real workshop at ECCV 2026.
I am chairing the workshop “Real World Video Representation Learning (Video4Real)” at ECCV 2026 in Malmö, Sweden. Workshop website.
2026
Three EEMCS research projects received internal funding.
Three of our projects received UTwente EEMCS Internal Vouchers, with a combined value of €135,000. The projects focus on multimodal learning for human-robot perception, social interaction analysis, and fatigue detection from wearable sensor data.
2026
I was invited to the AI Research Workshop at Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa.
I gave an invited talk at the PHAWAI AI Research Workshop in Arequipa, Peru.
November 2025
Arequipa, Peru
I was appointed Area Chair for VISAPP 2026 and VISAPP 2027.
I joined the Area Chair team of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) for its 2026 and 2027 editions.
Invited-talk series on multimodal and multi-visual cue fusion systems.
I presented our research on multi-modal and multi-visual cue fusion systems in invited talks at the University of Sheffield, Bayer CVLab, and the Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute (EAISI).
April 2026
I was an invited speaker at the Alice & Eve 2025 workshop.
I presented our research at the Alice & Eve workshop organised by the University of Groningen.
October 2025
Groningen, Netherlands
I joined new scientific and research committees.
I became a member of the Informatics Europe Early Career Researchers Working Group and the Young Academy Twente. I also served as a committee member for the 2025 NWO Open Competition in the Netherlands.
2025
I co-organised the Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop at CVPR 2025.
I will be co-chair of WiCV. I look forward to supporting this community!
More information in the workshop website.
Together with Nicola Strisciuglio and Alex Stergiou, I co-organized the Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision (NCCV) May 2025
More information in the event website.
Google PhD funding
Rosemary Nalwanga has just received a PhD fellowship from Google. Together with Dr. Godliver Owomugisha we will supervise her PhD trajectory on crop image analysis with low-cost computational models.
My NWO-VENI project was granted!
I received national personal funding to develop my research project titled “Understanding social interactions in first-person videos with multimodal learning”.
Erasmus+ KA171 project funded
As a PI and together with Dr. Godliver Owomugisha, we received 54k€ Erasmus+ 171 funding to foster collaboration between the University of Twente and the Universities of Busitema (Tororo) and Makerere (Kampala), Uganda, during the AYs 2024-2026.
I am joining the organisation of the Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop at CVPR 2024.
I will be co-chair of WiCV. I look forward to supporting this community!
More information in the workshop website.
I joined the organisation of IEEE CBMS 2024.
I served as Finance Co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2024), held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
2024
Guadalajara, Mexico
Willams de Lima Costa successfully completed his PhD.
Congratulations to my PhD student Willams de Lima Costa on successfully completing his PhD in Computer Vision at the Federal University of Pernambuco! It was a pleasure to co-supervise his research together with Prof. Veronica Teichrieb and Prof. Lucas Silva Figueiredo.
February 2024
Brazil
ExploreCSR Google award.
Together with Nils Murrugarra-llerena (Weber State University) and Gilberto Ochoa (Tecnologico de Monterrey), we received a Google award. Our project “LATAM Undergraduate Research Program” aims to build research skills among Latin-American students in computer vision. Link to the project website.
I was invited to the International Summer School organised by the Universidad Panamericana
During the summer school, I gave a two weeks course on ML and CV to undergraduate students.
July 2023
Aguascalientes, Mexico Info
Our workshop LatinX in CV (LXCV) Research at CVPR was a success.
We had 10 full papers accepted, 22 extended abstracts and more than 60 attendees.
My PhD student Willams de Lima Costa presented our work “High-level context representations for emotion recognition in images”.
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Vancouver
June 18-22, 2023
I visited Busitema and Makerere Universities through our Erasmus+ 171 funding.
Funding granted! Research funding within the ERJU (European Joint Rail Undertaking) project.
The project and grant are shared with Luuk Spreeuwers and Nicola Strisciuglio in the DMB group. The goal is to develop frameworks for intelligent video gates to control and monitor the maintenance of trains and tracks along the European rail network.
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I was program co-chair of the workshop “LatinX in CV” at the ECCV.
Oct 2022
Event page. Online.
Erasmus+ 171 funding obtained!!
Sept 2022
Together with Dr. Godliver Owomugisha, we got Erasmus+ 171 funding to foster collaboration between the University of Twente and the Universities of Busitema (Tororo) and Makerere (Kampala), Uganda. Looking forward to this collaboration!
I was selected as general co-chair, together with Fabian Caba, for the next edition of LatinX in CV at CVPR2023.
Our next workshop will again have proceedings and will be onsite in Vancouver. See you there!
I was logistics co-chair of the workshop “LatinX in CV” at the CVPR.
Jun 2022
Event page. New Orleans, United States.
First prize for my 3-min PhD thesis presentation by the AERFAI at the CEDI 20/21 conference
Sept 23, 2021
I started new position at UTwente
Jul 2021 #University of Twente
I started my position as Assistant professor within the Data Management & Biometrics (DMB) group, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), University of Twente.
Thesis Award in Computer Science
Jan 2021 #University of Groningen
The Bernouilli Institute Thesis Award in Computer Science was awarded to my PhD thesis “Life-style understanding through the analysis of egocentric photo-streams”!
Read more about the prize.