Iris Groen of the Video & Image Sense Lab (VIS) has received a VIDI grant of €850,000 for her research proposal entitled ‘BrainShorts: Identifying neural mechanisms of dynamic video perception with deep learning’.

BrainShorts: Identifying neural mechanisms of dynamic video perception with deep learning

Our visual brain has no trouble extracting meaning from a short video, while advanced AI techniques require a lot of computing power for the same feat. What calculations and clever tricks does the brain use to achieve this? Groen’s project will answer this question by first collecting high-resolution brain measurements from the video-watching brain and then mimicking these with deep learning models that we enrich with various biological information processing principles. By directly comparing models with and without brain-inspired computations, Groen will identify key biological processing principles, facilitating more energy-efficient AI.

VIDI grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 25 talented researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam UMC (AMC location). The Vidi funding amounts to a maximum of €850,000 per project. This will allow the researchers to develop their own research line and establish or further expand their own research groups.

Read the NWO news item about all of the awards