ISPRS Commission III, Vol.34, Part 3A ,,Photogrammetric Computer Vision", Graz, 2002
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote "Shape from Video"
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
LUC VAN GOOL
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and KU Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Luc Van Gool 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 the ESAT research group in
Leuven, that focuses on industrial applications of computer vision. In 1998 he became a full professor at the
ETH Zürich, where he noe is head of the Computer Vision group at the Department of Electrical Engineering.
With his research teams, Luc Van Gool is a partner in several national and international projects, e.g. the EU
ACTS project Vanguard, the EU Esprit projects Improofs and Impact, and the EU Brite-Euram project Soquetec.
He is also involved in several other projects, that range from fundamental research to application-driven
developments. His major research interests include 2D and 3D object recognition, texture analysis, range
acquisition, stereo vision, robot vision, and optical flow.
Luc Van Gool has been a member of the program committees of several leading international conferences,
including the ICCV, ECCV, and CVPR. In 1998 he received a David Marr Prize at the International Conference
on Computer Vision. He is also a co-founder and director of the company Eyetronics, that specializes on 3D
modeling and animation, mainly for the entertainment industry and medical applications. The "ShapeSnatcher'
product received one of the EU "EITP" prizes in 1998.
Keynote "Vision and Robots"
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
GERD HIRZINGER
German Aerospace Center DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ing. Gerd Hirzinger received his Dipl.-Ing. degree and the doctor's degree from the Technical
University of Munich, in 1969 and 1974 respectively. In 1969 he joined DLR (the German Aerospace research
establishment) where he first worked on fast digital control systems. 1976 he became head of the Automation
and Robotics Laboratory of DLR, where he and his co-workers soon got several awards for innovative
technology transfer from robotics research to applications. In 1991 he received a joint professorship from the
Technical University of Munich.
Since 1992 he has been director at DLR's institute for "robotics and mechatronics". He has published more than
100 papers in robotics, mainly on robot sensing, sensory feedback, mechatronics, man-machine interfaces,
telerobotics and space robotics. He was prime investigator of the space robot technology experiment ROTEX,
the first real robot in space, which flew onboard shuttle COLUMBIA in April 93. He is senior member of IEEE,
he was vice-program chairman of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation 1994 and 1995, program
chairman of IROS (Intelligent Robot Systems Conference) 1994 and organizer of the 7" International
Symposium on Robotics Research. In a large number of other international robot conferences he was program
committee member or invited plenary speaker. For many years he has been chairman of the German Council on
Robot Control and administrative committee member of the IEEE Society on Robotics and Automation. He
rejected a number of chairs offered to him by different European Universities. He received several national and
international awards, e.g. in 1994 the Joseph-Engelberger-A ward for achievements in the robotic science and in
1995 the Leibniz-A ward, the highest scientific award in Germany and the JARA (Japan Robotics Association)
Award. In 1996 he received the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts- Award, Germany's most important award for outstanding
promotion of the partnership between science and industry, and in 1997 the IEEE-fellow award.
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