GMT Colloquium

Here, you can find a list of past and future colloquia. Click on the date of any colloquium for more information, including abstracts of the talks.

Upcomming Colloquia

Past Colloquia

• Date: Tuesday 12 March 2013
  Time: 15:15–17:00
  Location: MIN-208

  Speakers

  • Name: Daniel Rodriguez Cerezo
    Affiliation: Complutense University of Madrid
    Title: Educational Software System for Compiler Construction

• Date: Thursday 14 February 2013
  Time: 15:15–17:00
  Location: RUPPERT-A (Marinus Ruppertgebouw)

  Speakers

  • Name: Alexandru Iosup
    Affiliation: Delft University of Technology
    Title: Massivizing Social Games: Distributed Computing Challenges and High Quality Time

• Date: Thursday 13 December 2012
  Time: 13:15–15:00
  Location: MIN-208

  Speakers

  • Name: Bas Zalmstra
    Affiliation: Abbey Games
    Title: Leveraging the full power of C# for game development

• Date: Thursday 15 November 2012
  Time: 13:15–15:00
  Location: BBL 001

  Speakers

  • Name: Joost van Dongen
    Affiliation: Ronimo Games
    Title: Implementing fast multiplayer for Awesomenauts & memory management on console

• Date: Wednesday 27 April 2011
  Time: 11:00–16:00
  Location: BBL 083

  Speakers

  • Name: DGDARC Symposium
    Affiliation: DGDARC
    Title: Games vs. Reality

• Date: Thursday 31 March 2011
  Time: 13:15–15:00
  Location: BBL 201

  Speakers

  • Name: Thomas Geijtenbeek
    Affiliation: Utrecht University, MoTek
    Title: Interactive Character Animation using Simulated Physics

• Date: Thursday 2 December 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Klein

  Speakers

  • Name: Alexandru Iosup
    Affiliation: TU Delft
    Title: Massivizing Social Games: Today and the Next Five Years

• Date: Thursday 14 October 2010
  Time: 13:00–15:00
  Location: Aard Groot

  Speakers

  • Name: Jeroen Bijsterbosch
    Affiliation: Incontrol Simulation Solutions
    Title: Pedestrian Logistics Simulation

  • Name: Nicolas Pronost
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: 3D Anatomical Human — An European research project

• Date: Thursday 3 June 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Bas de Haas
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Music Retrieval Based on Tonal Harmony

• Date: Thursday 6 May 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Ioannis Karamouzas
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Simulating human crowds: moving from individuals to small groups of virtual characters

  • Name: Caifeng Shan
    Affiliation: Philips research
    Title: Computer Vision Research at Philips Research

• Date: Thursday 8 April 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Ben van Basten
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: One step at a time: from path-driven to step-driven animation

  • Name: Jurrien de Knecht
    Affiliation: PrimeVision
    Title: Computer Vision and OCR techniques for the Post and Parcel market

• Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Frank ter Haar
    Affiliation: TNO
    Title: TNO and Electro-optics

  • Name: Emmanuel P. Gruijs
    Affiliation: Activeworlds Europe (CEO)
    Title: I have an Avatar, therefore I exist

• Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Xinghan Luo
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Accurate Multi-person Tracking by Multiple Cameras

  • Name: Thomas Geijtenbeek
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Immersive Virtual Environments for Rehabilitation

• Date: Thursday 26 November 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Ruppert Rood

  Speakers

  • Name: Ms Monique Teillaud
    Affiliation: INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
    Title: CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

  • Name: Dr. Bert Keegstra
    Affiliation: Stabiplan BV
    Title: Geometry in CAD Software and Implementation of Scrum at Stabiplan BV

• Date: Thursday 22 October 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Hantao Liu
    Affiliation: TU Delft
    Title: Objective Image Quality Metrics

  • Name: Willem van Spanje
    Affiliation: Delfttech
    Title: Virtual Reality & Serious Gaming for Industry, Spatial Planning, Forensics, Safety, Security & Defense Based on High Precision 3D Measurements

• Date: Thursday 17 September 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: MIN 208

  Speakers

  • Name: Dr. R.T. Tan
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Physics-based Computer Vision and Computational Photography: A Very Short Introduction

  • Name: Rob Ottenhoff
    Affiliation: Noldus Information Technology
    Title: Computer Vision for behavioral research

• Date: Thursday 2 July 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Klein

  Speakers

  • Name: Ruben Smelik
    Affiliation: TNO
    Title: Procedural Methods for Virtual World Modeling

  • Name: Saskia Groenewegen
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Procedural City Layout Generation Based on Urban Land Use Models

• Date: Thursday 4 June 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Klein

  Speakers

  • Name: Ivonne Jansen-Dings
    Affiliation: Waag Society
    Title: Mobile Play

  • Name: Ben Kröse
    Affiliation: University of Amsterdam
    Title: From Bayesian Theory to Making Money with Computer Vision Applications (including Games)

• Date: Thursday 7 May 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Groot

  Speakers

  • Name: Thijs van Lankveld
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Automatic 3-Dimensional Modelling of Urban Areas from Imagery

  • Name: Frank Van Meurs
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Automatic 3-Dimensional Modelling of Urban Areas from Imagery

• Date: Thursday 2 April 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Klein

  Speakers

  • Name: Egon Verharen
    Affiliation: Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
    Title: HDTV at the Publieke Omroep

  • Name: Erik Huizer
    Affiliation: TNO ICT; Utrecht University
    Title: IPv6: gaming can't live without it

• Date: Thursday 5 March 2009
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Aard Klein

  Speakers

  • Name: Joost van Dongen
    Affiliation: Ronimo Games
    Title: Game development on the Nintendo Wii

• Date: Thursday 5 February 2009
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Aard Groot

  Speakers

  • Name: Frank van den Heuvel
    Affiliation: CycloMedia
    Title: CycloMedia's aerial and terrestrial image databases

  • Name: Maike Buchin
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Trajectory Similarity in Geographic Applications

• Date: Thursday 8 January 2009
  Time: 13:00–14:00
  Location: Ruppert 116

  Speakers

  • Name: Mark de Berg
    Affiliation: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
    Title: Computational geometry for fat objects and low-density scenes

• Date: Thursday 4 December 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: BBL 513

  Speakers

  • Name: Han Hoogeveen
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: A dynamic flow algorithm for sending a group of characters from A to B

  • Name: Mostafa Vahedi
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Caging polygons with two and three fingers

• Date: Thursday 6 November 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Aard Groot

  Speakers

  • Name: Virginia Dignum
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: The person behind the player

  • Name: Herman Haverkort
    Affiliation: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
    Title: Designing algorithms for data that does not fit in memory

• Date: Thursday 2 October 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Aard Groot

  Speakers

  • Name: Ralf Sluimer
    Affiliation: TNO
    Title: Validating models used in training simulators

  • Name: Sander Jansen
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Modeling motor behaviour: Moving through complex structured environments

• Date: Thursday 4 September 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Went Groen

  Speakers

  • Name: Joske Houtkamp
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Thunderstorms in my computer: the effect of visual dynamics and sounds in a 3D environment

  • Name: Floris van Brederode
    Affiliation: E-semble
    Title: "It matters".....where gaming meets reality>

• Date: Thursday 12 June 2008
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Ruppert 042

  Speakers

  • Name: Michael Gleicher
    Affiliation: Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, USA
    Title: Synthesis-By-Example: Creating Controllable Characters from Motion Capture

• Date: Thursday 8 May 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Unknown

  Speakers

  • Name: Gerard Weder and Bart den Hartog
    Affiliation: Tree-C Technology
    Title: Serious gaming in the offshore

  • Name: Frido Kuijper
    Affiliation: TNO Defence, Safety and Security
    Title: Rapid Modelling of (Urban) Mission Areas

• Date: Thursday 3 April 2008
  Time: 15:00–17:00
  Location: Ruppert Rood

  Speakers

  • Name: Peter Werkhoven
    Affiliation: TNO
    Title: Multimodal navigation & perception

  • Name: Mike van der Voort
    Affiliation: W!Games
    Title: Game Development at W!Games

• Date: Thursday 6 March 2008
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Langeveld E038

  Speakers

  • Name: Rodrigo Silveira
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Digital Terrain Models for Terrain Analysis

  • Name: Robert-Paul Berretty
    Affiliation: Philips
    Title: Stereoscopic 3D: Algorithms and signal processing

• Date: Thursday 7 February 2008
  Time: 13:00–15:00
  Location: Langeveld E038

  Speakers

  • Name: Wolfgang Huerst
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Video Browsing on Handheld Devices: Interface Designs for the Next Generation of Mobile Video Players

  • Name: Rafael Bidarra and Rens van den Bergh
    Affiliation: Unknown
    Title: Unknown

• Date: Thursday 6 December 2007
  Time: 13:00–15:00
  Location: Kruyt W105

  Speakers

  • Name: Arnout Ruifrok
    Affiliation: Netherlands Forensic Institute
    Title: Man and Machine: performance in face recognition

  • Name: Xinghan Luo
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Facial Feature Detection (FFD) and the Application

• Date: Thursday 1 November 2007
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: Kruyt W105

  Speakers

  • Name: Piet Buitendijk
    Affiliation: Utrecht University
    Title: Meer dan weer

  • Name: John van de Vegte
    Affiliation: KNMI
    Title: OMI Dutch Processing System

  • Name: Anthon Nijholt
    Affiliation: University Twente
    Title: Brain-Computer Interfacing: Human-Computer Interaction and Entertainment

• Date: Thursday 4 October 2007
  Time: 11:00–13:00
  Location: BBL 420

  Speakers

  • Name: Nicu Sebe
    Affiliation: University of Amsterdam
    Title: Human-centered Computing: Challenges and Perspectives

  • Name: Pjotr van Schothorst
    Affiliation: VSTEP
    Title: People and Technology behind Ship Simulator

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