KULeuven and ETHZurich receive an Award

The KULeuven and ETHZurich received the Best Video Award for their joint work on cognitive loops which was presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 17-22 2006, New York, USA.

The awarded video demonstrates how a 3D city reconstruction module devised by the KULeuven is combined with a car recognition module devised by ETHZurich so that each module feeds information to the other module, allowing the combined system to overcome the weaknesses of each seperate module. The implementation of such a cognitive loop between modules led to a drastic increase in robustness, efficiency and accuracy of the resulting 3D city model.
The video is accompanied by a technical paper:

Nico Cornelis, Bastian Leibe, Kurt Cornelis and Luc Van Gool: "3D City Modeling using Cognitive Loops"

which was presented after special invitation at the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 3DPVT, June 14-16 2006, Chapel Hill, USA.