Wilfried Philips

“Wilfried Philips is a senior full professor at Ghent University, where he leads the Image on Processing and Interpretation (IPI) research group and the research consortium iKnow, which has realized 9 spin off companies. At imec, he is scientific lead of the Center of Excellence on Image Processing and Sensor Fusion. He is co-founder of the IoT company Senso2Me. He is senior member of IEEE and fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation.

Wilfried Philips’s and IPI’s research interests relate to image real-time computer vision and fusion of “rich” sensor data (radar/video/LiDaR/thermal/hyperspectral), with a strong focus on industrial applications. IPI has founded three spin off companies. It has also created “”Quasar,”” a brand new high-performance GPU-programming solution that offers greatly reduced development time.”