Tinne Tuytelaars
Tinne Tuytelaars is a computer vision researcher whose work spans local image features, multimodal AI, and continual learning. She earned an electrical engineering master's degree and a PhD at KU Leuven, then became a research professor there in 2008. She co-authored SURF, which received the Koenderink Prize at ECCV in 2016, and held conference-chair roles at ECCV and CVPR. As of October 2026, she is a full professor at KU Leuven and researches image and video understanding, multimodal AI, and continual learning.
Timeline
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1996–2000
Electrical engineering and a PhD
She earns a master's degree in electrical engineering at KU Leuven in 1996 and completes her PhD at ESAT-PSI in 2000 on local invariant features for registration and recognition.
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2006–2007
A research visit at INRIA
She works part-time as a visiting scientist with INRIA's LEAR group in Grenoble in 2006 and early 2007.
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2008–2009
A KU Leuven professorship
She becomes a research professor at KU Leuven in October 2008 and receives an ERC Starting Grant in 2009.
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2014–2016
A Koenderink Prize for SURF
She serves as ECCV's program co-chair in 2014 and CVPR's general co-chair in 2016. Her co-authored SURF feature earns the Koenderink Prize at ECCV in 2016.
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2021
Continual learning for video
She receives an ERC Advanced Grant in 2021 to pursue continual learning. Her project aims to generate audio descriptions for videos and connect images with language.
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2023
A Royal Academy membership
She becomes a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2023.
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2024
Program chair at CoLLAs
She serves as program chair for CoLLAs in 2024.
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As of October 2026
Full professor at KU Leuven
As of October 2026, she is a full professor at KU Leuven, where her research focuses on image and video understanding, multimodal AI, and continual learning.
Sources and credits
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