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Luc Van Gool

Position: Head ESAT-PSI/VISICS

Type Of Staff: Professors

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Work Coordinates

Adress:

ESAT-PSI/VISICS

Kasteelpark Arenberg 10

B-3001 Heverlee

BELGIUM

Office: 91.64

Tel.: +32 16 321705

Fax: +32 16 321723

Email: Luc.VanGool@esat.kuleuven.be

Research Interests

• Software development for texture analysis
• 2D and 3D object recognition
• Stereo vision and active range acquisition
• Robot control
• Optic flow
• Modeling of human vision for robotics
• Remote sensing applications

Background Information

At the ESAT lab of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven he is the head of a multidisciplinary group of 30 vision researchers, about 10 of whom are post-doc. With his VISICS team he is involved in several European research, exchange, and training projects IST, Eureka, Esprit. Currently he is coordinator of 1 European project.
At the Image Science Group (BIWI) of ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) he is the head of 20 researchers, specialised in the fields of medical imaging, robot vision, remote sensing and image indexing. The BIWI group is involved in several European and Swiss projects.
He is a member of the Program Committee of several major international computer vision conferences (ICCV, ECCV, ICPR, ECMAST, MFI, etc.) and regularly serves as reviewer of leading scientific journals in the filed of vision.
In 1998 he co-founded the spin-off company Eyetronics, which is specialised in 3D modeling. In its first year of existence they won already several awards with its 3D technology, including the European IT prize 1998.