Marc Pollefeys

Biography

Marc Pollefeys has been Full Professor in Computer Science at the Institute for Computational Science at ETH Zurich since August 2007. He currently also remains associated with the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he started as an assistant professor in 2002 and became an associate professor in 2005. Before he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where he also received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Dr. Pollefeys has received several prizes for his research, including a Marr prize, an NSF CAREER award and a Packard Fellowship. He is the author or co-author of more than 90 peer-reviewed or invited papers. He was co-chair of the Third Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission and has organized workshops and courses at major vision and graphics conferences and has served on the program committees of many conferences. He is a regular reviewer for most of the major vision, graphics and photogrammetry journals. Prof. Pollefeys is on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the International Journal of Computer Vision and Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision.

Research Interest

Computer vision; To develop flexible approaches to capture visual representations of real world objects, scenes and events.