Jacob Kamminga completed his Ph.D. in animal activity recognition at the University of Twente in 2020. He used machine learning models as activity classifiers to recognize various activities of animals using motion data on resource-constrained devices (edge-AI). Currently, he is studying active learning and human-in-the-loop AI training. Furthermore, he is interested in unsupervised representation learning to exploit unlabeled data. Other areas of his expertise are data acquisition, processing, and annotation. 

Since 2021 Jacob has been the digital species identification team leader within the ARISE biodiversity project. The digital species identification team builds services that support developing and deploying AI algorithms that detect and identify species from various digital media such as sound, images, and radar.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Activity Recognition
    • Classifier
    • Accuracy
    • Annotation
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Recognition
    • Detection
    • Biodiversity
  • Physics

    • Acoustics

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Publications

2022

ARISE: Building an infrastructure for species recognition and biodiversity monitoring in the Netherlands (2022)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] Biodiversity Information Standards, TDWG 2022. van Ommen Kloeke, E., Huijbers, C., Beentjes, K., Kamminga, J. W., Bakker, P. A. J. & Kissling, W. D.https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93613Improving the Annotation Efficiency for Animal Activity Recognition using Active Learning (2022)In Measuring Behavior 2022: 12th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, and 6th Seminar on Behavioral Methods (pp. 51-58). Spink, S., Kamminga, J. W. & Kamilaris, A.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20066849

2020

Hiding in the Deep: Online Animal Activity Recognition using Motion Sensors and Machine Learning (2020)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Kamminga, J. W.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036550550Towards Deep Unsupervised Representation Learning from Accelerometer Time Series for Animal Activity Recognition (2020)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 6th Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series, MiLeTS 2020. Kamminga, J. W., Meratnia, N., Le, D. V. & Havinga, P. J. M.

2019

Horsing Around: A Dataset Comprising Horse Movement (2019)Data, 4(4). Article 131. Kamminga, J. W., Janßen, L., Meratnia, N. & Havinga, P. J. M.https://doi.org/10.3390/data4040131

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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University of Twente

Zilverling (building no. 11)
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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