Our insights into artificial intelligence
- Data scientists, time to negotiate with your boss! Should you upgrade to Apple’s M2 Pro or Max?Kurt Janssens25/5/2023

- Using SaaS to annotate our data: applied case and best practicesTom Vermeulen6/2/2023

- Increasing indoor top rope climbing safety with computer visionOscar Swyns23/1/2023

- The Generative AI Enigma: The Shocking Truth Behind this Blog PostOlivier Lattrez5/12/2022

- A guide to more sustainable Machine LearningLeonor Drummond11/10/2022

- Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere: AI, gut feeling and functional lazyDaphné Vermeiren21/9/2022

- Frankenstein would be proud: AI Face Morphing in action!Wout Vandenwijngaert7/9/2022

- Code optimization: changing the way you approach repetitive tasks
In this blog, I want to give you some do’s and don’ts pointers when it comes to code optimization. In addition, I explain how you can identify possible optimizations in your code, and how to optimize.
Olivier Lattrez6/7/2022
- Brainhouse - Building a web browser for ALS patients
The Brainhouse project's purpose was to put together a diverse squad of interns who would work on a case with social impact. This time, we tackled a case for ALS Liga.
Wietse Vanmeerbeeck30/6/2022
- Discover Nelleke's take on project management and AI
'Next-level drive and dive' is typical for project manager Nelleke Doyen. She puts her talent for 'bringing gusto' in projects to good use in her work, where she brings her passion for innovative technology, AI, and people to life. Read her story.
Daphné Vermeiren25/5/2022
- Leonor's road to data science
After studying veterinary medicine in Portugal and kite surfing in the Philippines, Leonor Drummond retrained as a data scientist in artificial intelligence in Belgium. Her story consists mainly of learning a lot, preferably as fast as possible. Read here how Leonor found her place at Brainjar after an intensive agile journey, or rather, race.
Daphné Vermeiren24/5/2022
- Passion for AI and Big Data - Clusity event summaryDaphné Vermeiren17/5/2022
- Co-creating an AI-driven image search function for a jewelry webshop
For a jewelry webshop, we built an AI-driven image search function based on similarity embedding to simplify the classification of jewels together.
Daphné Vermeiren13/4/2022
- Handwritten text generator with artificial intelligenceDaphné Vermeiren21/2/2022

- Eye tracking using webcam images in Tensorflow: my internship story
During my twelve-week-long internship at Brainjar, I created a deep learning model that can perform eye tracking using webcam images. In this blog, I’ll explain how I went to work.
Simon Germeau21/2/2022
- How to cheat on your internship with mouth animation
While looking for a possible internship, one immediately got my attention. Building a ‘face animation tool’. I couldn’t let this opportunity slip by. The goal of this internship was to start from a face, and making the mouth move when given an audio sample.
Yori Verbist21/2/2022
- “Enhance!” - My internship at Brainjar on image enhancing
A story about my time at Brainjar as an intern, where I work on CSI-style image enhance AI including super-resolution, colorizing and denoising.
Wout Vandenwijngaert21/2/2022
- Stop repeating yourself with Klassif.ai
Brainjar created a terrific software tool to tackle these challenges, which they’ve named Klassif.ai. This platform helps you intelligently process all types of documents. Moreover, TPO Agency plays a guiding role in the development process of Klassif.ai.
Thomas Verhoef21/2/2022
- How not to waste 4 months in traffic — a strong case for smart traffic lights
Turning Leuven into an accessible and traffic-safe city.
Pieter Portauw21/2/2022
- Unforgettable internship at Brainjar: sign language classification
This summer, Brainjar offered me the internship of a lifetime: classifying Dutch Sign Language videos. I had an absolute blast trying to tame this beast.
Tom Vermeulen21/2/2022
- Manual labour, done artificially with Klassif.ai, an IDP platform
Tired of processing thousands of documents manually? Check out our new AI platform, Klassif.ai, and process documents at a faster pace. In short: manual labour, done artificially!
Deevid De Meyer21/2/2022
- Prototyping an AI presentation assistant: from idea to solution
Some time ago, we were invited for a meeting with a chemicals group with an interest in AI. We built a tool that uses AI to evaluate presentations.
Deevid De Meyer21/2/2022
- How to build an event driven application on Google Cloud using cloud functions
Cloud Functions: A simple approach to building an event driven system
Dries De Rydt21/2/2022
- How you can detect cracks in concrete bridges using deep learning
Using deep learning methods, we tried to tackle the problem of detecting concrete cracks in bridges. The results exceeded our expecations.
Deevid De Meyer21/2/2022
- Robust Real-Time Pose Estimation with OpenPose
OpenPose represents the first real-time multi-person system to jointly detect human body, hand, facial, and foot keypoints on single images.
Deevid De Meyer21/2/2022
- Falling into AI, and the enablers called PowerAI and Brainjar
Recently, Sam Sterckval joined Brainjar as an AI intern. By combining his background in electrical engineering with his passion for artificial intelligence, he is ready to tackle some intersting AI projects!
Sam Sterckval21/2/2022
- Intelligent automation: when RPA meets Artificial Intelligence
During our masterclass "cognitive RPA" we demonstrate the possibilities of combining artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA).
Sam Hendrickx21/2/2022
- PowerAI, the power painter
A few months ago we made a style transfer application to demo the capabilities of the Genius supercomputer cluster. And now we got our hands on a PowerAI which IBM generously loaned to us for a couple of months to use. Time to see how it stacks up against Genius in painting!
Maarten Bloemen21/2/2022
- An AI-driven, smart billboard for the future
A smart billboard will get your attention and give recommendations about events, promotions, restaurants, sights to visit...
Sam Hendrickx21/2/2022
- Messing around with OpenAI Gym
OpenAI Gym is a cool platform for anybody involved with reinforcement learning algorithms
Deevid De Meyer21/2/2022
- Klassif.ai's Annotator goes Open Source
Klassif.ai is Brainjar’s automation platform for document processing. In this blog post, we will discuss what our journey toward an own annotator looked like. Especially: where we ran into doors and how we found ways to open them. Oh, and there's a surprise at the end!
Maarten Bloemen21/2/2022