Prof. Marc Pollefeys named IEEE Fellow

Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, January 4, 2012. The IEEE Board of Directors has elected Marc Pollefeys as Fellow in its Class of 2012. He is a professor of computer science and head of the Institute of Visual Computing at ETH Zurich. Prof. Pollefeys is being recognized for contributions to three-dimensional computer vision. He developed automated algorithms to compute realistic 3D reconstructions of objects from just a few photographs. These algorithms are now used in a variety of applications ranging from autonomous navigation of robots or vehicles, reconstruction of archaeological artifacts and 3D modeling of cities, to virtual exploration of events from video collections.

Marc Pollefeys, who received his PhD from the KU Leuven in 1999, was a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill before joining ETH Zurich. He received the David Marr prize (the most prestigious award in the area of computer vision) as well as several other prizes for his research. “I feel honored to have been selected to become part of this group of peers whom I respect very much,” Pollefeys said. “I am glad that my contributions to 3D computer vision are considered worthy of this honor.”

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

For more information about Prof. Pollefeys’s research: www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/pomarc/index.html 

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