Luc Van Gool
Professor
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Luc Van Gool is a Full Professor at ETH Zurich since the fall of 1998. He is head of the Computer Vision Laboratory. He was born on the 18th of april 1959 and studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Leuven in Belgium. In 1991 he got his PhD degree from the same university, with a dissertation on the use of invariance in computer vision. In 1991 he became an assistant professor in Leuven and in 1996 professor. He still leads a research group in Leuven, that focuses on industrial applications of computer vision. In 1998 he became a full professor at the ETH in Zuerich, where he now also is the head of the Computer Vision group at the department of Electrical Engineering.
Research Interest
2D and 3D object recognition; Texture analysis; Range acquisition; Stereo vision; Robot vision; Optical flow.
