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I received a Master of Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven , Belgium in 1996. Since my graduation, I've been working at ESAT-PSI, where I defended my PhD on december 19, 2000, entitled "Local Invariant Features for Registration and Recognition".

During most of 2006 and early 2007, I was also parttime (20%) visiting scientist at the LEAR group of INRIA in Grenoble. Summer 2008, I visited the Making Sense from Data group at NICTA in Canberra, Australia. Summer 2010 I visited Trevor Darrell's group at ICSI/EECS UC Berkeley. Since October 2008, I'm appointed research professor (BOF-ZAP) at  KU Leuven.

My main interests are computer vision and, in particular, topics related to image representations, vision and language, continual learning, dynamic architectures and more. I have been program chair for ECCV14, CVPR21 and CoLLAs24 and general chair for CVPR16. I will be general chair of ICCV 2029. I also served as associate-editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and was on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision. I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2009, an ERC Advanced Grant in 2021 and received the Koenderink test-of-time award at ECCV16. I am vice president of the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA), Fellow of the European Laboratory of Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts .