A conversation with Prof. Cees Snoek

Florian Matusek talks to Mats Thulin, Director Core Technologies at Axis Communications. In this conversation, they talk about how AI, and specifically generative AI such as Large Language Models, is changing the security industry. They talk also talk about the responsibility of security manufacturers to use AI ethically and make sure AI models are not only accurate but also follow responsible AI principles.

Florian Matusek talks to Cees Snoek, professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam where he heads the Video & Image Sense Lab. In this conversation, Cees talk about how he focuses his research on real-world applications and working together with other scientific fields to solve problems that couldn't be tackled before. He also shares his views on industry collaborating with research instutions and how University spin-offs work in practise.

Florian Matusek talks to Dr. Jerome Pasquero, Principle Product Manager at Sama. In this conversation, they talk about data labelling, synthetic data, and generative AI such as ChatGPT and LLMs in general. They talk about what the future holds for data labelling and how to upskill workers so they are not left behind when more and more synthetic data is powering machine learning models.

Florian Matusek talks to Prof. Matthias Uhl, professor for the societal implications and ethical aspects of AI at the Technical University Ingolstadt, Germany. In this conversation, Matthias shares results of his research in ethics and AI, how he utilizes folk intuitions to get insights from the people actually affected by AI systems and why considering moral questions on implementing AI systems goes beyond regulations and checklists.

Florian Matusek talks to Jean-François Gagné, former CEO of Element AI, which he founded together with Yoshua Bengio and later sold to ServiceNow. JF also helped draft the AI Act of the European Commission and is a proponent of AI regulation. In this conversation, JF talks about the history of Element AI, how he got to work with Yoshua, AI risks and opportunities and where we go from here.

Florian Matusek talks to Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and research leader of the group ‘crime in context’ at the Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement. Her research focuses on situational aspects of violence and conflict with particular focus on real-life interactions as they unfold in time and space. In this conversation, Marie talks about how combining video analytics with sociology helped the Dutch police during the Covid pandemic and how this combination of fields has the potential to solve the replication crisis.

Prof. Dr. Y. Raymond Fu is a widely-renowned AI expert, Professor, and a successful serial entrepreneur. He is Distinguished Professor affiliated with both the College of Engineering and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. In this conversation, Raymond shares his insights into the current state of AI, the relevance of edge computing for AI and what he learned starting multiple businesses next to his career in academia.

Is it possible to count the number of passengers in a vehicle? Or to get a warning if the driver of the vehicle is distracted? Florian Seitner, CEO of emotion3D, shares with us how to increase safety in vehicles with video analytics.

When it comes to video analytics, we hear a lot of different terms being used interchangeably: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision (CV), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL). In this episode we unpack all of these and explain how they are not the same but do relate to one another.

In this episode of Video Analytics 101 Florian Matusek talks with Paule Brodeur, Manager of the Computer Team of Genetec’s AutoVu line of products, about how license plate recognition works technically and what the future holds.