Herbert Bay

Herbert Bay is a Swiss computer scientist known for his work in computer vision. He is a co-inventor of the Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) algorithm, a method for fast and robust interest point detection and description, which was first published in 2006 and later recognized with the Koenderink Prize at the European Conference on Computer Vision in 2016. Bay also co-founded Kooaba, an ETH Zurich spin-off focused on mobile image recognition technology.