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Jan Blockx<p>June is the month of master thesis defences at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a>. Today's harvest is made up of:</p><p>🚫 The exclusion of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> offenders from public procurement procedures<br>✈️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stateaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stateaid</span></a> to airlines during the Covid crisis<br>🤖 Human oversight over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> in the EU and the US<br>📉 Predatory innovation as an abuse of dominance</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>Honored to be selected among the Outstanding Reviewers at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/CVPR2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CVPR2025</span></a>. <br /><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/sqIRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sqIRL</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/IDLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IDLab</span></a> <br /><a href="https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/ProgramCommittee#all-outstanding-reviewer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/20</span><span class="invisible">25/ProgramCommittee#all-outstanding-reviewer</span></a></p>
Jan Blockx<p>👩‍💻👨‍🎓 Summer school in Legal Technology and Legal Innovation 👩‍⚖️ 🤖<br>👉 25-29 August 2025 in Antwerp, Belgium 👈 </p><p>For the 6th year running, the University of Antwerp is organizing a summer school on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/legaltech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legaltech</span></a>. We offer an introduction to python, practice on how to translate legal rules in decision trees, the use of AI and machine learning, legal design, and several startups come to talk about their experience. Check out our website for more information: <a href="https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter-schools/legal-technology-legal-innovation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uantwerpen.be/en/summer-winter</span><span class="invisible">-schools/legal-technology-legal-innovation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uantwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uantwerp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uantwerpen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uantwerpen</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>MIRL/IDLab-Uantwerp well represented at the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/IDLabDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IDLabDay</span></a>&#39;24 by Benjamin Vandersmissen presenting his work assessing the coherency of evaluation methods for visual explanations <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314224000158?dgcid=coauthor" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S1077314224000158?dgcid=coauthor</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/xai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>xai</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/interpretability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>interpretability</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/uantwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uantwerp</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>With the presentation of 14 research papers, we concluded the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ANN</span></a> course this year at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a> Good level of presentation and Q&amp;A, very pleased</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Canaries are the cheetahs among seed eaters<br><a href="https://stroom.uantwerpen.be/en/the-source/canaries-are-the-cheetahs-among-seed-eaters" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stroom.uantwerpen.be/en/the-so</span><span class="invisible">urce/canaries-are-the-cheetahs-among-seed-eaters</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@MajaMielke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MajaMielke</span></a></span> </p><p>"Researchers at <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a> have been trying to investigate <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/canaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canaries</span></a> when they are feeding. The only problem? The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> are too slow – or the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> are too quick, depending on your point of view. The scientist would place a seed on the feeder and run towards the safety shield of the X-ray room – only to discover the seed has already been eaten when they arrive."</p>
José Oramas<p>We have a PhD position at IDLab (UGent - UAntwerpen - imec) on the topic of representation learning via Spiking Neural Networks.<br />Interested? Consider to apply: <a href="https://www.imec-int.com/en/work-at-imec/job-opportunities/spiking-neural-networks-dynamic-scene-understanding" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">imec-int.com/en/work-at-imec/j</span><span class="invisible">ob-opportunities/spiking-neural-networks-dynamic-scene-understanding</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/imec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imec</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/uantwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uantwerp</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ml" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ml</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/snn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>snn</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/neuromorphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neuromorphic</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>And we conclude the theory sessions of the <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ANN</span></a> course with an engaging guest lecture from Inton Tsang - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@inton" class="u-url mention">@<span>inton</span></a></span> (imec) on the topic of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/SNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SNN</span></a> and <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/neuromorphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>neuromorphic</span></a> computing. <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/uantwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>uantwerp</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>Today began the third edition of our Artificial Neural Networks course at <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a>. Really enjoyed the enthusiasm and participation of the students. Please keep the motivation and good attitude 👍. <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ANN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ANN</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>May you give us a hand with our research? <br />Please visit qxviz.ai and participate on a brief survey on the identification of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/deepfakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deepfakes</span></a>. <br />This will help us advance the design of more transparent <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> systems.<br /><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/VUB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VUB</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/KULeuven" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KULeuven</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/XAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XAI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ML</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
José Oramas<p>Our <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/WACV23" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WACV23</span></a> paper on the topic of evaluation for model interpretation methods is available online <a href="https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2023/html/Behzadi-Khormouji_A_Protocol_for_Evaluating_Model_Interpretation_Methods_From_Visual_Explanations_WACV_2023_paper.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openaccess.thecvf.com/content/</span><span class="invisible">WACV2023/html/Behzadi-Khormouji_A_Protocol_for_Evaluating_Model_Interpretation_Methods_From_Visual_Explanations_WACV_2023_paper.html</span></a></p><p>Congrats to @behzadikhormuji for the good work.<br /><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/XAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>XAI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Interpretability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Interpretability</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/interpretableml" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>interpretableml</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/UAntwerp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UAntwerp</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/imec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>imec</span></a></p>