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ETH Zurich - Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering - Computer Vision Laboratory

About the Lab

Vision Lab News

Innovation Award
The research project from M. Breitenstein, F. Reichlin and other BIWI researchers won the innovation award of the Information Technology Society. The algorithm estimates motion patterns of persons from live video by finding and tracking an unknown number of people, without any other information than the pure image. This makes it suitable for a wide range of different applications like traffic security, visual surveillance, robot navigation, sports analysis or entertainment industry.

SCA09 Best Student Paper Award
The work of Thibaut Weise, Hao Li, Luc Van Gool, and Mark Pauly, Face/Off: Live Facial Puppetry, won the Symposium on Computer Animation 2009 best student paper award!

ICRA Best Vision Paper Award
BIWI researchers won the Best Vision Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in Kobe, may 2009! The rewarded work finds and tracks pedestrians in realistic shopping street environments,from a mobile platform. The rewarded paper is A. Ess, B. Leibe, K. Schindler, and L. van Gool. Moving Obstacle Detection in Highly Dynamic Scenes

The Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich, works on the computer-based interpretation of 2D and 3D image data sets from conventional and non-conventional image sources.

The computer vision lab performs research in the fields of Medical Image Analysis and Visualization, Object Recognition, Gesture Analysis, Tracking, and Scene Understanding and Modeling.

We treat the complete cycle from signals to their interpretation, and to the resulting action. It is our objective to develop universal concepts and methods. In order to meet these challenges, we want to keep our finger at the pulse of international, ongoing research. Therefore, we operate in the context of many collaborations with other labs, like the CO-ME and IM2 Swiss competence centers (NCCR), and many European projects.

This said, it simultaneously is our strategy to let difficult, real-world applications drive our research and development. We see collaboration with industry as an important plus for an engineering lab like ours.

Heads of the laboratory are Prof. Luc Van Gool, Prof. Gabor Székely, and Prof. Vittorio Ferrari.