Lambert Schomaker

prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE)
Kunstmatige Intelligentie
[Research
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Bernoulliborg building (BB)
Nijenborgh 9
9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-50-363-7908
Fax: +31-50-363-6687
E-mail: l.r.b.schomaker(at)rug.nl
E-mail: home email address

Interests & projects

  • Within artificial intelligence, my focus is on perceptual intelligence and (lifelong) machine learning
  • Neuromorphic computing: new analog electronic materials for next-generation low-power AI systems: CogniGron

    The traditional CMOS community thinks there is no problem and quantum computing has many claims for the future.
    Neuromorphic computing is positioned in the middle and will provide low-energy solutions soon,
    first 'on the edge' (IoT) but later also in HPC centers.

  • Monk is our continuous project for allowing access to large and diverse historical archives which are difficult to access by means of traditional 'OCR' approaches due to their special fonts or handwritten style. Since 2009, Monk provides a means of continuously training handwriting recognizers that create indices of handwritten collections. Monk was one of the demonstrators in the EU/SNN Target project
  • May 2019: EU/ITN Manic project approved, participation: ML and neuromorphic computing / cognitive materials
  • 2018 EU/ITN Perico project participation: Machine learning for peroxisome classification
  • Dead Sea Scrolls ERC project with Mladen Popovic (PI) and Hans van der Plicht (14C dating)

Recent

Activities

Post-doctoral researchers

Current PhD students

  1. Asmaa Haja - Deep learning methods for microscopy in biology
  2. Sha Luo - Reinforcement-based learning of object handling in robots
  3. Mahya Ameryan - Deep learning for text recognition and pictorial semantics
  4. Maruf Dhali - Dead Sea Scrolls, document dating and writer identification
  5. Davide Cipollini - Neuromorphic computing (deep learning for electron microscopy, with prof. Beatriz Noheda, materials science)
  6. Jordi Timmermans - Neuromorphic computing (electronic sensorimotor circuit modeling) with prof. Tamalika Banerjee, materials science)

  7. Anouk Goossens - Building blocks for electronic brains (co-supervisor with prof. Tamalika Banerjee)

(previous PhD students)

  • Zhenxing Zhang - Text-to-image GANs (dissertation 7 Febr. 2023.) Zhenxing was ready in 3 years!
  • Jean-Paul van Oosten - Continuous labeling and learning
    Jean-Paul has obtained, at the ICFHR 2012, the IAPR Best Paper Award: Jean-Paul Van Oosten, Lambert Schomaker (2010). Separability versus Prototypicality in Handwritten Word Retrieval, Proc. Int. Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, September 18-20 2012, Bari, Italy, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 8-13, DOI 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.269
  • Amir Shantia - Robotics perception and navigation (together with Marco Wiering)
  • Bowornrat Sriman (camera-based text detection and recognition for Asian scripts)
  • Sheng He (writing style-based dating of handwritten manuscripts, dissertation 2017, 'cum laude' - with honors)
  • Marius Bulacu (writer identification, dissertation 2007)
  • Tijn van der Zant (handwritten historical document retrieval, dissertation 2010)
  • Axel Brink (robust writer identification and verification, dissertation 2011)
  • Gert Kootstra (biologically inspired robot vision and navigation, dissertation 2010)
  • Hado van Hasselt (reinforcement learning systems, with Marco Wiering, dissertation 2011)

Current M.Sc. projects

Visiting researcher

  • Setare Rezaee was a PhD guest, working on Persian (Farsi) handwriting recognition using deep learning (2018/2019).
  • Masahiro Niitsuma (2015) - writer identification in Bach's sheet music
  • Nobuo Ezaki (2004) - camera-based text detection