Luc Van Gool

Luc Van Gool studied Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also got his PhD on the subject of the use of invariants in computer vision, in '91. Since '98 he is a full professor for Computer Vision at both the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the ETH Zuerich. He leads research groups in the area of computer vision at both places. He has authored more than 200 papers on the subject in leading journals and conferences. He is editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision, and is member of the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Int.J. on Computer Vision, Machine Vision & Applications, and the ACM J. on Computing and Cultural Heritage. Together with his co-workers, he received several Best Paper and other Awards. He is a co-founder of the spin-off companies Eyetronics, eSaturnus, Procedural, GeoAutomation, and kooaba. He has acted as a program commitee member for several of the main conferences in computer vision (i.e. ICCV, CVPR, and ECCV). He was ICCV program chair in 2005 and will act as general chair of ICCV 2010 and ECCV 2014.

Advanced Use of Computer Modelling, Simulation and Visualisation: abstract

The presentation will give an overview of some recent techniques in the areas of 3D acquisition and modeling. This includes a range of technologies, like extracting 3D information from plane images, dedicated real-time structured light methods, photometric stereo, and procedural modeling. Applications with cultural relevance will be shown for all of those. They include examples from the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Pompeii, Rome Reborn, the Dunhuang caves along the Silk Road, and the Forbidden City in Beijing.