CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Richard van Balen
Nationality: Dutch
Date, Place of Birth: 01-12-1961, Velsen
LANGUAGES
Dutch, English, German
Pascal, C / C++, Visual Basic, Java, Objective-C, OpenGL, HTML, IAF
Name: Richard van Balen
Nationality: Dutch
Date, Place of Birth: 01-12-1961, Velsen
LANGUAGES
Dutch, English, German
Pascal, C / C++, Visual Basic, Java, Objective-C, OpenGL, HTML, IAF
EDUCATION
Free University of Amsterdam (VU)
1980 - 1984 Biology candidate program.
1984 - 1985 Intermezzo computer science.
1985 - 1988 Medical biology doctoral program.
Specialisations:
Neurophysiology (1.5 years)
Medical computer science (2 years)
Quantitive Pathology (3 months)
Software Development:
- 1985 Development of Patch-clamp neural activity data-analysis software.
- 1986 Development of C-interpreter SCIL.
- 1987 Integration of SCIL with AIM image processing software.
- 1988 Development of AI0 (Analysis of Images and Objects) for tumour diagnostics.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Free University of Amsterdam (VU)
1986 Student assistant at Neurophysiology.
- Neurophysiology student course leader.
- Advancing C-Interpreter SCIL for use in biophysics.
- Tuning SCIL and AIO to PIPE (Pathology Image Processing Environment).
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
1989 - 1993 Computer Scientist.
Interested in the SCIL environment. the department of image processing and robotics offered me a staff position as scientific researcher. A project proposal to develop a general purpose environment for image processing, that could be used by many different institutions, was granted by the ministry of economics. Many institutions and scientists contributed to the project. As project leader I was responsible for the overall project coordination. In this period I also guided a number of students in their research and Master thesis.
- Development of abstract portable image infrastructure.
- Development of SCIL-Image software for UNIX and Macintosh.
- Development of extremely fast binary image processing methodology.
- SCIL-Image was adopted by the Dutch Centre for Image Processing and commercialised by TNO.
- SCIL-Image became the de-facto industry standard for image processing in the Netherlands.
1992 Project: Becton & Dickinson Pharmaceutical.
B&D Pharmaceutical, involved in microscopic image analysis, requested the University to hire me for a system audit.
- B&D software sanity check and design consultancy.
1993 Project: Philips Medical Systems (PMS).
PMS requested the University to let me combine SCIL-Image with the 'Philips Common Viewing Toolkit'. The resulting system was used throughout Philips Medical Systems to develop all medical workstation and imaging products, such as MRI stations, computer aided surgical systems, and workstations for radiology.
- Combining SCIL-Image with 'Philips Common Viewing Toolkit'
Skilled Vision
1993 Project: TNO Institute of Applied Physics.
In 1993 I started my own company named 'Skilled Vision' after being asked by TNO to help commercialise SCIL-Image.
1995 - 1996 Project: TNO / Tulip Computers.
When Windows 95 was still in early beta-state, the sheer number of new technologies and APIs, combined with poor and incomplete documentation, made it difficult for technology companies such as the 'TNO Institute of Applied Physics' and Tulip Computers, to get a good grasp on the new platform and its future possibilities. I was hired as consultant to pioneer the new fields and introduce the new computer-telephony and Internet related technologies.
- Introduction of new Windows 95 technologies to TNO and Tulip Computers.
- Integration of telephone with PC, Telephone contact manager software.
- Demonstrator 'Infinite Virtual Document' with in place OLE and ActiveX components.
- Resulting demonstrators were exhibited by Tulip Computers at Hannover CeBIT.
1997 - 1998 Project: IAF co-sponsor TNO.
Firms such as TNO with many project teams have found that, due to the complexity of GUI development under MsWindows, it is difficult to built and reuse software. The ActiveX component approach addresses this problem but is rather complex on its own accord. IAF was developed to simplify GUI and component software development dramatically, thus stimulating programmer creativity.
- Development of Imaging Application Framework (IAF) for rapid component and application development with sophisticated direct manipulation user-interfaces.
- Resulting components could be applied, as IAF or ActiveX component in almost any PC-based software environment.
- Demonstrator: SCIL-Image expressed in IAF, enabling Imaging GUI development within SCIL-Image.
FlexVisions
1999 Novelty Product FlipClip
Start of a new 'Idea & Product Development' company named FlexVisions.
- Development and production of the 'FlipClip' cigarette lighter clip.
A clip that attaches a cigarette lighter to any Flip-Top cigarette box.
Sehe auch FlipClip Designs
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
2000-2011 Computer Scientist
The UvA asked if I could work for them to dramatically speed up image display in 2D and 3D. Directly handling the 2D/3D display of images on the Graphic Card by using OpenGL resulted in a more than 1000-fold acceleration. Over time an easy programmable OpenGL based component GUI windowing system named OGL-GUI evolved.
- Design and development of OGL-GUI, a portable OpenGL Component GUI Windowing System with extremely fast 2D/3D image manipulation and display.
- Development of OGL-GUI Animation Framework enabling FLUID GUI creation in C++ and Java.
- Development of image and video search/indexing apps to participate in the international TRECVID competition.
Many times the UvA finished in first or second place across different disciplines.
Euvision Technologies
2011-2012 Computer Scientist + iOS App Developer
Co-developed the iPad App LOFT for NedSense, which later became Rooomy, in which a 2D photo of a room is turned into a 3D representation, allowing to visualise how new furniture, drapes, or decorations would look like in the room.
- 3D iPad App LOFT for NedSense
Ogling Art / FlexVisions
2013-2020 Mobile App Developer (IOS/Android)
Selling Logomats + Development MagicArt Relax App
- 3D MagicArt Relax App for iOS and Android
See: MagicArt Relax, Ogling.Art, Logomats
ARTICLES
- SCILAIM: A multi-level interactive image processing environment.
R. van Balen, T. Ten Kate, A. Smeulders, F. Groen, G. den Boer. 1990 - SCIL/AIM and AIO, Flexible Environments for Microscopic Image Analysis.
R. van Balen, T. ten Kate, F. Groen. 1991 - SCIL-VP: A Multi-purpose Visual Programming Environment.
D. Koelma, R. van Balen, A. Smeulders. 1992 - Methods for Fast Morphological Image Transforms Using Bitmapped Binary Images.
R. van den Boomgaard, R. van Balen. 1992 - A Flexible Data-types Infrastructure for Image Processing.
R. van Balen, A. Smeulders. 1993. - SCIL-Image: A Multi-layered Environment for Use and Development of Image Processing Software.
R. van Balen, D. Koelma, T. ten Kate, B. Mosterd, A. Smeulders. 1994 - SCIL-Image: An Environment for Collaborative Use and Development of Image Processing Software.
R. van Balen, A. Smeulders. 1994 - An Application Framework for Image Processing.
M. Worring, J.M. Geusebroek, Benno Mosterd, R. van Balen. 1995 - The Mediamill 2005 Semantic Video Search Engine.
M. Worring, R. van Balen, J. Geusebroek, D. Koelma, A. Smeulders, C. Snoek. 2005 - Mediamill: Advanced Browsing in News Video Archives
M. Worring, C. Snoek, O. de Rooij, G. Nguyen, D. Koelma, R. van Balen. 2007 - Analysing Video Concept Detectors Visually.
C. Snoek, R. van Balen, D. Koelma, A. Smeulders. 2008 - The MediaMill TRECVID 2008 Semantic Video Search Engine.
C. Snoek, K. van den Sande, O. de Rooij, R. van Balen, A. Smeulders, D. Koelma. 2008