Honours Programma Bachelor AI

The Honours Programme of the Bachelor's in Artificial Intelligence is an excellence programme intended for highly talented and motivated students who want to go a bit further with their studies. Those who join the Programme have the opportunity to widen their training by following interdisciplinary courses outside the field of AI and to go deeper into their own discipline by participating in AI projects that go beyond the standard Bachelor's curriculum.

The Honours Programme involves taking a minimum of 30 EC extra over the 3-year Bachelor's period. These 30 EC are achieved by taking two extra courses (12 EC) in semesters 2 and 4, participating in two research projects (12 EC) in semesters 3 and 5, and extending the Bachelor's thesis project (by 6 EC) in semester 6. Those students who follow the programme and complete all courses and projects (both regular and honours) in three years with an average grade of at least 7, receive an Honours diploma together with their Bachelor's diploma.

Contact:

• Honours Programme coordinator: Raquel Fernández
• Studieadviseur: Brenda Wiefferink
• You may consider registering with Extensus, the study association for Honours students of the VU, UvA and AUC.

For information on interdisciplinary honours courses, consult the website of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Research Projects

Honours research projects offer you the opportunity to get involved in current AI-related research being carried out at the faculty of science. Honours students work in small groups and are supervised by expert researchers. New project topics are proposed every year. They are made available at the end of August. Scroll down to browse through the list of AI honours projects underway or completed in previous years.

Honours Projects 2013-14

• Image Matching on a Smartphone, supervised by Jan van Gemert
  Participants: Steve Nowee, Eva van Weel, and Nick de Wolf
  Final project report
• Sport Ratings, supervised by Christian Schaffner
  Participants: Joost Hoppenbrouwer and Marysia Winkels
  Final project report
• Contextual Analysis at MediaSynced, supervised by Robrecht Jurriaans
  Participants: Harrie Oosterhuis and Lotte Weerts
  Final project report
• Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (reading club), supervised by Leo Dorst
  Participants: Robbert van Ginkel and Jorn Peters


• Timeline:
  • 2 September: kick-off meeting with all honours students and potential supervisors of research projects.
  • 11 November: mid-way report. A short document (a couple of pages long) outlining the topic and goals of the project, what has been done so far, and what remains to be done. Send it to Raquel and your project supervisor.
  • 27 January: final project report due. Send it to Raquel and your project supervisor.
  • 28 January: final project presentations attended by project supervisors and all honours students, including 1st-year students who have just joined the honours programme. [ schedule ]

Honours Projects 2012-13

• Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (reading club), supervised by Leo Dorst
  Participants: Maarten de Jonge and Harrie Oosterhuis (plus some Master's students)
• Fair Protocols for Sequential Allocation Problems, supervised by Ulle Endriss
  Participants: Sosha Happel, Marysia Winkels and Eva van Weel
• Visual Tracking of Humanoid Robots, supervised by Arnoud Visser
  Participants: Steve Nowee and Nick de Wolf

Honours Projects 2011-12

• Extending the PRIMER system
  Merijn van Wouden, Anna Keune, Maarten de Jonge, Sharon Gieske (Supervisors: Abdo El Ali and Frank Nack)
• Nano-satellite Swarms
  Sosha Happpel, Sander Jetten, Steven Laan, Tim van Rossum (Supervisors: Rudolf Strijkers and Robert Meijerl)

Honours Projects 2010-11

• Robo Tag
  Anna Keune, Michael Cabot, Sander Jetten, Sharon Gieske, Eliška Hartlová, Steven Laan, Eszter Fodor, Auke Wiggers (Supervisor: Arnoud Visser)
• Geometric Algebra (reading club)
  Robrecht Jurriaans, Martijn van der Veen, Moos Hueting, Bastiaan van der Weij, Patrick de Kok (Supervisor: Leo Dorst)

Honours Projects 2009-10

• Multimedia Recommender
  Thomas vand den Berg, Maarten van der Velden (Supervisor: Frank Nack)
• Augmented Reality
  Jan Overgoor, Bastiaan van der Weij, Philo van Kemenade (Supervisor: Frank Nack)
• Robot Helicopter Path Planning
  Moos Hueting, Robrecht Jurriaans, Martijn van der Veen (Supervisor: Arnoud Visser)

Honours Projects 2008-09

• Traversability Maps in a Robot Rescue Simulator
  Wouter Josemans, Bram Huijten, Maarten van der Velden (Supervisor: Arnoud Visser)
• FEED: Semantic Web en Ruimtelijke Ordening
  Jan Overgoor, Thomas van den Berg, Sander Latour (Supervisors: Radboud Winkels, Rinke Hoekstra)
  
• Machine Translation: integrating statistics and linguistics
  Patrick de Kok, Chaim Bastiaan, Chiel Kooijmans (Supervisors: Anouk Perquin, Remko Scha)
• Graduation project: Wouter Josemans, Generalization in Reinforcement Learning

Honours Projects 2007-08

• A Configuration Space Visualization for Robot Path Planning
  Hessel van der Molen, Wouter Josemans (Supervisor: Leo Dorst)
• A Statistical Beat Induction Method for Metrical Grouping
  Patrick de Kok, Gijs Kruitbosch, Nadya Peek (Supervisor: Leigh Smith)
• Graduation project: Gijs Kruitbosch, Recognizing focus areas using isophote pupil location
• Graduation project: Nadya Peek, Automatic Analysis of Voting Procedures
  

Honours Projects 2006-07

• Towards a simulation platform for distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation
  Hylke Buisman, Gijs Kruitbosch, Nadya Peek (Supervisor: Ulle Endriss)
  Dit project heeft zelfs geleid tot een conferentiebijdrage op ESAW-2007 in Athene(!), met publicatie:
  Hylke Buisman, Gijs Kruitbosch, Nadya Peek, and Ulle Endriss. Simulation of Negotiation Policies in Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation. In Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII, LNAI, volume 4995, pages 224-239, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  There is a site, too.
• Graduation project: Hylke Buisman, Automated modeling in process-based qualitative reasoning

Honours Projects 2005-06

• Honours Programme Started
• Graduation project: Wouter Beek, Linguistic Relativism: Variants and Misconceptions