Marc Pollefeys Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tel: (919) 962 1845 Fax: (919) 962 1699 E-mail: marc@cs.unc.edu

Full Professor Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich Tel: +41 44 632 31 05 Fax: +41 44 632 17 39 E-mail: marc.pollefeys@inf.ethz.ch

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, 1999.
M.S., Electrical Engineering, K.U.Leuven, 1994.

Research interests

Computer vision; 3D-from-video; (self-)calibration; camera networks; active vision; multiple view geometry; omnidirectional vision; projector-camera systems; image-based modeling and rendering; image and video analysis; applications of computer vision to archaeology, urban modeling, terrain modeling, human-computer interaction, entertainment, medecine, etc.
[see research page]

Short Bio

Marc Pollefeys is a full professor in the Institute for Computational Science of the Dept. of Computer Science of ETH Zurich since 2007 where he leads the Computer Vision and Geometry lab.  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. His main area of research is computer vision.  One of his main research goals is to develop flexible approaches to capture visual representations of real world objects, scenes and events. 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.

Curriculum vitae - extended version [pdf]

Postdoctoral researcher and senior collaborators

• Jan-Michael Frahm, research assistant professor, 2005-present, urban 3D modeling (UNC)
• Christopher Zach, 2008-present, urban 3d modeling (UNC)
  
• Friedrich Fraundorfer, 2007-present, wide-area structure from motion and recognition (ETH)
• Gabriel Brostow, 2008-present, 4D event modeling (ETH)
• Dongwuk Kyoung, 2007-2008, structured light (Korea Research Foundation/ETH)

Ph.D./M.S. students