Background

Research interests

• Object recognition/zero-shot learning in the wild
• Semantic image annotation
• Knowledge-based computer vision

Awards/grants

• Young eScientist Award 2019
• Prize for the winning team of the VISUM summer school 2019 project competition
  • The project involved the creation of a Computer Vision model for the detection and classification of abandoned objects in the interior of self-driving cars.
• Fitzgerald Travel Grant for the SPNHC+TWDG 2018 annual meeting
• Best poster award for the TPDL 2018 conference
• Best poster award for the IEEE eScience 2018 conference

Publications

Journal articles

• 2020
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Herik, J. van den, Verbeek, F., Plaat, A., and Wolstencroft, K. Large-scale zero-shot learning in the wild: classifying zoological illustrations. Submitted (2020)
• 2018
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Gassó Miracle, E., Verbeek, F., Plaat, A., Herik, J. van den, and Wolstencroft, K. Semantic annotation of natural history collections. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2018.06.002

Conference proceedings

• 2019
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Van den Herik, J., Plaat, A., Verbeek, F., Wolstencroft, K., Automated semantic annotation of species names in handwritten texts, In: Fuhr, N., Azzopardi, L., Stein, B., Hauff, C., Mayr, P. & Hiemstra, D. (eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval: 41st European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2019. vol. 11437 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham. 667-680 14 p. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15712-8_43


• 2018
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Herik, J. van den, Plaat, A., Verbeek, F., and Wolstencroft, K. From handwritten manuscripts to linked data, In: Méndez E., Crestani F., Ribeiro C., David G., Lopes J. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018. volume 11057 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_34


• Weber, A., Ameryan, M., Wolstencroft, K., Stork, L., Heerlien, M., and Schomaker, L. Towards a digital infrastructure for illustrated handwritten archives. In M. Loannides, editor, Digital Cultural Heritage, volume 10605 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 155–166. Springer International Publishing, April 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75826-8_13

Peer-reviewed conference abstracts

• 2018
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Gassó Miracle, E., and Wolstencroft, K., A workflow for the semantic annotation of field Books and specimen labels, in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25839 (2018) (to be presented at the joint meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), Dunedin, New Zealand, August 25 - September 1, 2018) https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25839


• Stork, L., Wolstencroft K., Weber, A., Verbeek, F., Plaat, A., and Herik, J. van den. Priming digitization: learning the textual structure in field books, Conference abstract, ICT OPEN 2018, 18-19 March 2018, Amersfoort.
• 2017
• Stork, L. and Weber, A., A Linked data approach to disclose handwritten biodiversity heritage collections, Book of Abstracts, DH Benelux 2017 (Utrecht 2017), 10-13.

Other scientific contributions

• 2018
• Stork, L., Weber, A., Herik, J. van den, Plaat, A., Verbeek, F., and Wolstencroft, K. From handwritten manuscripts to linked data, Poster session presented at: TPDL 2018 conference, Porto, Portugal, 10-13 September 2018.
• 2016
• Weber, A., Ameryan, M., Stork, L., Wolstencroft, K., Gassó Miracle, E., Nijssen, S., Wiering, M., Heerlien, M., Thijssen, M., Huetink, M., Verbeek, F., Plaat A., Kok, J., Roberts, L., Herik, J. van den, and Schomaker, L., Making sense of illustrated handwritten archives, Poster session presented at: eScience Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 October 2016.

Presentations

• Leiden, The Netherlands, 2019: Analysing historical manuscripts with digital techniques, Girls in Science Day.


• Leiden, The Netherlands, 2019: Semi-automated semantic annotation of field notes and specimen labels. Center for Computational Life Science.


• Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019: Invited conference talk, The 18th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop.


• Cologne, Germany, 2019: Automated semantic annotation of species names in handwritten texts, Conference presentation, 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval.


• Dunedin, New Zealand, 2018: A workflow for the semantic annotation of field books and specimen labels, Conference presentation, SPNHC-TDWG 2018.


• Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 2018: Priming digitization: learning the textual structure in field books, Conference presentation, ICT OPEN 2018.


• Enschede, the Netherlands, 2017: Towards an infrastructure for illustrated handwritten archives, ITC Faculty (together with Andreas Weber, Steps, Twente University).