Department of Electronics and Information Systems / Internet and Data Lab

Prof. dr. Steven Verstockt received his master’s degree in informatics from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2003. In 2008, he began working on his Ph.D. degree on multi-modal video fire analysis at the Multimedia Lab of the Electronics and Information Systems Department of Ghent University–iMinds, where he has worked since 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher. In September 2015 he started a tenure track professorship in Multimedia. His current research focuses on multimodal data processing, video analysis, computer vision and GEO-ICT. Over the last years, his research group is getting involved in several sports, media and heritage-related projects/proposals to share their expertise on spatio-temporal data collection, filtering, classification, enrichment, mapping and visualization.