Pascal Mettes of the Video & Image Sense Lab (VIS) has received a VIDI grant of €850,000 for his research proposal entitled ‘HyperVision: Hyperbolic Computer Vision’.

HyperVision: Hyperbolic Computer Vision

Neural networks excel at recognising what happens in images but suffer from a crucial blind spot: they fail to correctly represent hierarchies. Hierarchies are key structures in computer vision, describing how visual data and semantics are organised. The mismatch with hierarchies has a geometric reason: modern networks are Euclidean, while hierarchies have a hyperbolic nature. To overcome this fundamental problem, Mettes’ project proposes to redefine and rebuild neural networks for computer vision using hyperbolic geometry, with the promise of addressing critical limitations of today’s neural networks.

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