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Luc Van Gool
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & ETH-Z
Membership Number: 14
Address: Institut für Kommunikationstechnik,Fachgruppe Bildwissenschaft,Gloriastrasse 35,CH - 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Email: vangool@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 1 632 6578
Fax: +41 1 632 1199
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Biographical Sketch
Luc Van Gool is professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. At both places he leads a group working on Computer Vision. He also teaches computer vision at both universities. With his teams he is and has been involved in more than 15 European projects, of which he has coordinated several. He also was a board member of ECVNet, the European Computer Vision Network of Excellence, for which he has taught a CV course that was broadcast throughout Europe by satellite. He has received several prizes, including a David Marr Prize and an IST European Technology Prize through the spin-off company Eyetronics, of which he is a co-founder. He has served as a program committee member and reviewer for several international conferences. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals (e.g. Int. Journal on Computer Vision, Pattern Analysis and Applications, etc.). He has been a member of the Research Council of the University of Leuven.

ETH-Z BIWI & KUL Visics
The group involved is the Computer Vision Group ‘BIWI’ of the Department of Information Technology and Electronics of the ETH Zurich. The group consists of about 20 researchers. The main topics of research are texture analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition and tracking, animation, recognition and cognitive vision, and medical image processing. The group is currently involved in four European IST projects and its member are of ten different nationalities. Other major projects include interdisciplinary ETH projects on wearable computing and the design and building of networked CAVEs for remote collaboration, as well as a Swiss-wide project (NCCR) on medical image processing. Members of the group have already won several ETH medals for outstanding PhD work.

The group at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven who will be partner in the ECVision network is the group Visics -- VISion for Industry, Communications, and Services -- which is part of the Center for the Processing of Speech and Images at the ESAT department (Electrical Engineering). The team has about 25 members, five of whom are postdoc. The focus of research is on object recognition, cognitive vision, 3D shape extraction and manipulation, visual inspection, and remote sensing. The group has ample experience with European collaboration, and has been involved in several IST projects. The group has received several prizes for its work, including a Golden Eye Award, a David Marr Prize, two TechArt Awards, a Krypton nomination, and several Barco prizes for master and PhD Theses.


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