Henri Bouma
Contact information
dr.ir. Henri Bouma
Senior Scientist at TNO
Oude Waalsdorperweg 63
2597 AK The Hague
The Netherlands
E-mail: <firstname><dot><lastname><at>tno.nl
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/henribouma
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Biography
Dr. Henri Bouma is a senior scientist at TNO in the field of image and video analysis for defence and security applications. He received his MSc in Electrical Engineering and his PhD in Biomedical Image Analysis and he published in many journals and conference proceedings.
Specialties:
Artificial intelligence & deep learning
Computer vision & pattern recognition
Document authentication
Re-identification
Behaviour analysis & anomaly detection
Security & privacy
Experience
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist at TNO (May 2018 - now)
Senior scientist and project leader at TNO Defense and Security in the department Intelligent Imaging in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Selected projects: H2020 STARLIGHT (data anonymisation and privacy with police), H2020 D4FLY (Document autentication with IND & KMAR), NATO INSTEAD (person re-identification), TOPS10 (technology for NL-Police), Sensingtechnology (DJI), SASSSISLAN (DSTL), H2020 ASGARD (concept detection) etc.
Scientist at TNO (Nov. 2006 - Apr. 2018)
PhD Student
PhD student at Philips Healthcare (Oct. 2003 - Sep. 2006): automatic detection of pulmonary embolism, Philips Medical Systems (currently Philips Healthcare), Best, The Netherlands.
Internship
Internship at NXP (Mar. 2000 - Jul. 2000): VLSI system design, Philips Semiconductors (currently NXP), Zurich, Switzerland.
Education
PhD
PhD at TU Eindhoven: Biomedical Engineering (Oct. 2001 - Sep. 2006)
Ph.D. thesis: "Vessel-diameter quantification and embolus detection in CTA images", (2008).
MSc
MSc at Univ. Twente: Electrical Engineering (Sep. 1995 - Aug. 2001)
M.Sc. thesis: "Design and implementation of an FPFA", (2001).
Activities and certificats
Volunteer
Catecheet/mentor, Church (2003 - 2004, 2019 - 2022, 2023 - present)
Ouderling, Church (2004 - 2006, 2010 - 2013, 2015 - 2018)
Selected projects
EU Horizon Europe EINSTEIN (Jan. 2024 - Dec 2026): Breeder and travel document security and fraud detection.
EU H2020 STARLIGHT (Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2025): AI, datasets, data anonymization, privacy-enhancing technologies, with NL-police and other EU LEA's.
NATO DEXTER / INSTEAD (Jun. 2019 - Jun. 2023): Re-identification and threat fusion
NL TOPS10 (Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2026): Sensing technology for the operation with NL-police using video and audio detection, pattern-of-life and anomaly detection
EU H2020 D4FLY (Sep. 2019 - Aug. 2022): Document authentication, with immigration service IND and border guard KMAR and others.
NL DJI Sensing technology (Jan. 2020 - Dec 2023): Sensing technology for the custodial institutions DJI, with contraband detection and counter drones.
EU H2020 TRESSPASS (Jun. 2018 - Nov. 2021): Risk-based screening of passengers
EU H2020 ASGARD (Sep. 2016 - Nov. 2020): Analysis of text and image data for LEA's
UK DSTL SASSSISLAN (Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017): Surveillance and behaviour analysis
EU FP7 ProtectRail (Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2014): Re-identification
USA DARPA CORTEX (Jun. 2010 - Jun. 2014): Human action recognition
EU FP7 ARENA (May 2011 - May 2014): Threat detection
EU FP7 DOLPHIN (Jun. 2011 - Nov. 2013): Maritime surveillance capabilities
Languages
Dutch
English
C++
Python
Patents
System and method for identifying image locations showing the same person in different images (EP2410467 / EP20100170682 / WO2012011817 / US9275299)
Detection of Edges in an Image (EP04101027 / WO2005091222)
Publications
Publications on Google Scholar
Publications on Orcid
Publications on Homepage (#GreenOpenAccess)