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Researcher
Luc Van Gool
INSAITProfessor
ETH ZürichProfessor Emeritus
KU LeuvenProfessor Emeritus
Van Gool helped establish modern European computer-vision research through influential work on 3D reconstruction, recognition, scene understanding, and autonomous driving. He built major vision groups at ETH Zürich and KU Leuven, joined INSAIT as a professor, and co-founded numerous spinouts.[1]
Career & education
Current roles
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations311,183As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,855Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features
With Herbert Bay and Tinne TuytelaarsSURF quickly finds and matches image details despite changes in scale or rotation.
References
- INSAIT — Luc Van Gool, research and company-buildinginsait.ai
He built major vision groups at ETH Zürich and KU Leuven, joined INSAIT as a professor, and co-founded numerous spinouts.
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