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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Dr. Henri Bouma is a senior scientist and project/program manager at TNO in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence applications.
Specialties:
Artificial intelligence & deep learning
Computer vision & pattern recognition
National security
Document authentication
Re-identification
Privacy-enhancing technologies
Behaviour analysis & anomaly detection
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: HEU EINSTEIN (document authentication), 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 at Philips Healthcare (Oct. 2003 - Sep. 2006): automatic detection of pulmonary embolism, Philips Medical Systems (currently Philips Healthcare), Best, The Netherlands.
Internship at NXP (Mar. 2000 - Jul. 2000): VLSI system design, Philips Semiconductors (currently NXP), Zurich, Switzerland.
PhD at TU Eindhoven: Biomedical Engineering (Oct. 2001 - Sep. 2006)
Ph.D. thesis: "Vessel-diameter quantification and embolus detection in CTA images", (2008).
MSc at Univ. Twente: Electrical Engineering (Sep. 1995 - Aug. 2001)
M.Sc. thesis: "Design and implementation of an FPFA", (2001).
Symposium Chair: SPIE symposium on Security and Defense (2025 - now)
Conference Chair: SPIE conference on Artificial Intelligence in Defense and Security Applications (2023 - 2024)
Conference Chair: SPIE conference on Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting, Forensic and Surveillance Technologies (2015 - 2022)
Catecheet/mentor, Church (2003 - 2004, 2019 - 2022, 2023 - present)
Ouderling, Church (2004 - 2006, 2010 - 2013, 2015 - 2018)
EU Horizon Europe EINSTEIN (Jan. 2024 - Dec 2026): Breeder and travel document security and fraud detection (EU G.A. 101121280).
EU H2020 STARLIGHT (Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2025): AI, datasets, data anonymization, privacy-enhancing technologies, with NL-police and other EU LEA's (EU G.A. 101021797).
NATO DEXTER / INSTEAD (Jun. 2019 - Jun. 2023): Re-identification and threat fusion (NATO G5605, G5969)
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 (EU G.A. 833704).
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 G.A. 787120).
EU H2020 ASGARD (Sep. 2016 - Nov. 2020): Analysis of text and image data for LEA's (EU G.A. 700381).
UK DSTL SASSSISLAN (Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017): Surveillance and behaviour analysis (DSTLX1000113777).
EU FP7 ProtectRail (Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2014): Re-identification (EU G.A. 242270).
USA DARPA CORTEX (Jun. 2010 - Jun. 2014): Human action recognition (DARPA Mind's Eye)
EU FP7 ARENA (May 2011 - May 2014): Threat detection (EU G.A. 261658).
EU FP7 DOLPHIN (Jun. 2011 - Nov. 2013): Maritime surveillance capabilities (EU G.A. 263079).
Dutch
English
C++
Python
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)
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