Wessel Kraaij
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Leiden UniversityLocation
The Hague Area, Netherlands NetherlandsOccupation
professor & principal scientistIndustry
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About
My main interest is to derive intermediate semantic information from unstructured data sources (text, video, audio) for indexing, retrieval and knowledge mining purposes in diverse application settings but currently focusing on health. I am lead scientist of the TNO early research programme 'Making Sense of Big Data'. In addition I am leading the project SWELL, -user centric reasoning for well-working-, which is part of the Dutch national COMMIT research programme. I am also one of the coordinators of TRECVID, the annual benchmark workshop focusing on the evaluation of video indexing and retrieval systems. At Radboud University, I have a part time appointment as professor in 'Informati...