M. Van Droogenbroeck received the degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium), in 1990 and 1994, respectively. While working toward the Ph.D. he spent two years with the Center of Mathematical Morphology (CMM), School of Mines of Paris, Fontainebleau, France. In April 1994, he joined the New Development Department of Belgacom. He was the Head of the Belgian Delegation within the ISO/MPEG Committee and served as a Representative to the World Wide Web Consortium for two years. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. Since 1998, M. Van Droogenbroeck has been a Member of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he is currently a professor. His current interests include image processing, real-time processing, fast algorithms, 3D vision, motion analysis, gait analysis, telecommunications, positioning,  robotics and multiple sclerosis.

In this project, he focuses on computer vision tools, especially background subtraction techniques.