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Geert Caenen
Location
Region
flanders
Role
co-founder, coo
Company
LinkedIn
Expertise
computer-vision, safety-systems, deflectometry
TLDR
Geert Caenen is a co-founder and COO of Apixa, a KU Leuven computer-vision spin-off.
Overview
Caenen earned an MSc in Mathematics from KU Leuven (1993-1999) and joined the Visics-PSI computer-vision group, where he worked alongside Kurt Cornelis and Rik Fransens before the three co-founded Apixa (originally Vision++) in 2007. He has stayed in operations since launch, currently as COO.
His applied focus is vision-based AI for safety in industrial settings, including forklift collision avoidance, person detection, and deflectometry-based surface inspection. He is based in Leuven.
Sources
- https://be.linkedin.com/in/geert-caenen-7a1b997
- https://www.apixa.com/about
- https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/psi/spin-offs/vision
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