Marc Pollefeys is a post-doc researcher at the Center for Processing of Speech and Images (ESAT-PSI) of the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). In may 1999 he obtained his Ph.D. from the K.U.Leuven (highest honours). His Ph.D. dissertation ``Self-calibration and metric 3D reconstruction from uncalibrated image sequences'' received the Scientific Prize BARCO in december 1999.
His main area of research is 3D modeling from images, self-calibration and computer vision. He is involved in research projects ranging from archaeology and heritage preservation, to human-computer interaction and planetary rover control.
In january 1998 he received the Marr prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Bombay for the paper ``Self-Calibration and Metric Reconstruction in spite of Varying and Unknown Internal Camera Parameters'' by M. Pollefeys, R. Koch and L. Van Gool. In september 1999 the two papers ``Robust Robust Calibration and 3D Geometric Modeling from Large Collections of Uncalibrated Images'', by R. Koch, M. Pollefeys and L. Van Gool and ``Plenoptic Modeling and Rendering from Image Sequences taken by Hand-held Camera'' by B. Heigl, R. Koch, M. Pollefeys, J. Denzler and L. Van Gool received the DAGM best paper award.