Awards

The Henry Ford Conservation Awards recognize efforts to protect our environment, conserve our cultural heritage, develop new and innovative approaches and involve children in educational programmes. The Tech-Art Price, organised by the Flemish Chamber of Engineers, awards projects with an innovative character in the field of engineering and arts.

The project "Sensor for the detection of weed in crop rows" has won both prizes in 1999 for its ability to make a distinction between weed, crop and soil through the spectral reflectance of the different surfaces. This makes it possible to save on the use of chemicals up to a level of 70% and thus not only preserves the environment, but also reduces the costs for the farmers considerably.

Pascal Pollet (left) and Filip Feyaerts (right) were the responsible researchers for this groundbreaking research.

The "Wetenschappelijke Prijs BARCO" 1999 has been given to Marc Pollefeys for his work on "Self-calibration and mectric 3D reconstruction from uncalibrated image sequences".

The 1999 'BARCO prijs voor afstudeerwerken' was given to Rik Fransens for his work "The design of an automated system that searches a forensic face database based on a robotphoto".

In 1996 Tinne Tuytelaars and Filip Defoort were awarded the 'BARCO prijs voor afstudeerwerken' with their thesis "Scenemodelling for Virtual Reality". This prize which is named after the BARCO company (the name stands for visualization, communications, automation, graphic systems and intrapreneurship) was handed to them by the Prime Minister of Belgium Jean-Luc Dehaene and the Minister President of Flanders Luc Van den Brande.

David Marr was a British psychologist who made important contributions to the study of visual processing. In honour of this man the Marr Prize was installed by the IEEE and awards every 2 years, during the International Conference on Computer Vision, the most important paper of this conference. Marc Pollefeys, Reinhard Koch and Luc Van Gool received in 1998, this prize awarded by their peers for their paper:"Self-Calibration and Metric Reconstruction in Spite of Varying And Unknown Internal Camera Parameters".

Nico Cornelis, Bastian Leibe, Kurt Cornelis and Luc Van Gool won the IEEE CVPR 2006 Conference, 'Best Video Award', for the video "3D City Modeling using Cognitive Loops".
In 2007, they also won the best paper award at the IEEE CVPR 2007 conference, for their paper: "Dynamic 3D Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle".

In 1997 PSI-VISICS won the Golden Eye Award for the Best Industrial Educational and Scientific film at the Audio-Visual Creative Fair in Brussels. In this film a technique was shown that could capture 3D from just 1 image. On the basis of this technique a company was setup 'Eyetronics', that commercialises this technique. ln its first year of existence (1998) this company also won the highly prestiguous European IST prize, awarded by the European Commission and the Tech Art prize, a Belgian prize that praised the originality, the importance and the economic potential of the technique.

Geert Bellens and Luk D'haene received in 1995 the BARCO prize for industrial engineers for their work done at Alcatel (Antwerp).