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PROGRAM SCHEDULE – ISPRS WG VI/5&SC Summer School
NanJing, P.R.China, June 26- July 1, 2008
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Generalized program schedule of the ISPRS WG VI/5&SC Summer School is available in:
- *.doc version (Microsoft Word) and
- *.pdf version (Adobe Reader). |
Working Language
Working Language is English. In order to assure most active participation of all participants, a good command of English is a prerequisite. |
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Lectures
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Lecture1: Internet based measurable image service By: Deren LI
1) Introduction to geo-services
2) Grid technology and spatial information grid
3) Measurable image and 4D integration
4) LBS based on the measurable image (vLBS)
5) Conclusion
Lecture2: Image-based 3D city modelling By: Armin Gruen
1) Introduction
2) Applications of 3D city models
3) Techniques for reality-based 3D city modelling
4) CyberCity (CC-) Modeler
5) Extensions to CC-Modeler
- Geometrical regularization
+ Automatical regularization by Least Squares adjustment
+ Regularization by CAD editing
- Topology adjustment
- Building fa?ade integration
6) Attribute information and connection to GIS
7) Texture Mapping and Visualization/Simulation
8) Generation of 3D city models from Linear Array aerial images
- Application software development
- Modelling from TLS/Starimager images
- Examples
9) 3D city modelling from high-resolution satellite imagery
10) 3D cities in Google Earth
11) Via 4D city modelling
12) Demos
13) Conclusions
Lecture3: Virtual 3D city models and CityGML By: Juergen Doellner
1) Concepts of virtual 3D city models
- A short history of 3D city models
- Fundamental properties of virtual 3D city models
- 3D city models as user interfaces for complex geoinformation
2) The CityGML standard for exchanging virtual 3D city models
- Concepts behind CityGML
- Standard entities and relations defined by CityGML
- Level-of-detail management by CityGML
- Versions and variants defined by CityGML
- Implications and limitations of CityGML
3) Real-time photorealistic rendering of virtual 3D city models
- General aspects of real-time rendering and techniques
- Real-time rendering of large terrain models
- Real-time rendering of large building models
- Real-time rendering with massive texture data
- Real-time rendering of geovirtual environments
- Global illumination for virtual 3D city models
4) Non-photorealistic rendering of virtual 3D city models
- Goals and principles of non-photorealism
- Approaches for real-time non-photorealistic rendering
5) Analysis and simulation based on 3D city models
- Using 3D city models as computational tools
- Example: visibility analysis
- Example: visual contact analysis
6) Tools and systems
- CityGML tools and systems
- Data management systems for virtual 3D city models
- Distribution and dissemination of virtual 3D city models
- Web services applicable to virtual 3D city models
Lecture4: 3D modelling from laser scanner data By: George Vosselman
1) Segmentation of point clouds
- Methods for extracting smooth surfaces
- Methods for extracting parameterised surfaces
2) Filtering of laser scanner data for the extraction of DTMs
- Morphological filtering
- Least squares interpolation
- TIN densification
- Segment based filtering
3) Detection of buildings
- Usage of segmentation for building detection
- Usage of multiple echoes for building detection
- Change detection
4) 3D modelling of buildings
- Model based approaches
- Data driven approaches
- Map guided approaches
5) 3D modelling of roads
- Reconstruction of smooth road surfaces
- Combining roads, trees and buildings in a city model
- Modelling of complex road junctions
Lecture5: Distributed Virtual Geographic environments By: Hui Lin
1) Development of geographic languages
- Maps, GIS, and VGE
2) From Database oriented systems to Database and Model-base oriented environments
3) Geo-visualization to virtual environments
4) Spatial analysis and spatio-temporal modeling
Lecture6: Vehicle-borne mobile system for spatial data acquisition By:Yehua Sheng
1) Brief introduction to the vehicle-borne data acquisition system
2) System calibration
3) Geospatial information extraction based on stereo images
4) Application examples
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LECTURERS – alphabetical order |
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Armin Gruen (1944) is since 1984 Professor and Head of the Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. He graduated 1968 as Dipl.-Ing. in Geodetic Science and obtained his doctorate degree 1974 in Photogrammetry, both from the Technical University Munich, Germany. From 1969 to 1975 he worked as Assistant, and until 1981 as Chief Engineer at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography, Technical University Munich. From 1981 to 1984 he acted as Associate Professor at the Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Prof. Gruen has held lecturing and research assignments at the University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, USA, Department of Geodesy, Technical University Delft, Netherlands, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand and at the Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan. He has lectured at University level since 1969, with photogrammetry and remote sensing as major subjects, and surveying, cartography and adjustment calculus as minor subjects. He served as the Head of the Department of Geodetic Sciences 1996-97 and as the Dean of Faculty "Rural Engineering and Surveying" of ETH Zurich (1996-98). He is Co-founder and Director of the Postdiploma Course "Spatial Information Systems" at ETH Zurich. Through the Commission for Remote Sensing he is Member of the Swiss National Academy of Natural Sciences. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals. He has published more than 350 articles and papers and is Editor and Co-editor of 20 books and Conference Proceedings. He has organized and co-organized/-chaired over thirty international conferences and he has served as a consultant to various government agencies, system manufacturers and engineering firms in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, USA and other countries.? He is co-founder of CyberCity AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Deren Li (1939) is dual academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, member of the Euro-Asia International Academy of Science. He graduated in 985 as Dr.-Ing in photogrammetry and obtained his doctorate degree from Stuttgart University of Germany. Prof. Deren Li served as Comm. III and Comm. VI president of ISPRS in 1988-1992 and 1992-1996, worked for CEOS in 2002-2004 and was the first president of Asia GIS Association (2003-2006). From 1990 up to now Prof. Li has concentrated on the research and education in geo-spatial information science and technology represented by remote sensing (RS), global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system(GIS). He applies himself diligently to the industrialization of high and new technologies. He has made unique and original contribution in the areas of theories and methods for high precision photogrammetric positioning, GPS aero-triangulation, analysis and processing of SPOT imagery, mathematical morphology and its application in spatial databases, theories of object-oriented GIS, image understanding and automatic photo-interpretation, spatial data mining and knowledge discovery, multi-media communication and mobile mapping systems, etc. The research findings have promoted the progress of the technology directly and are being turned into products. More than 470 technical papers and 9 books have been published.
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George VOSSELMAN (1963) was born in Ommen, the Netherlands. He graduated with honours from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, in Geodetic Engineering in 1986 with an M.Sc.-thesis on the precision of digital camera's. After his graduation he worked as researcher at the Institute of Photogrammetry of the Stuttgart University, Germany, until 1992. In 1991 he obtained his Ph.D.-degree with honours from the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany, on the topic of relational matching. After a year as visiting scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., he was appointed professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Delft University of Technology in 1993. In 2004 he joined ITC as professor of Geo-Information Extraction with Sensor Systems. George Vosselman is recipient of the Hansa Luftbild Award (1993) and the ISPRS Otto von Gruber Award (2000). As of 2005 he is Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Over the years George Vosselman taught many courses in photogrammetry, remote sensing and laser altimetry, both at undergraduate and graduate level. He gave guest lectures, tutorials and courses at universities and conferences in Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Saudi-Arabia, Turkey, and U.S.A.. He has been supervisor of about 40 MSc students. From 1999 till 2002 he was programme director for the study in Geodetic Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. He is author/editor of chapter 6 of the ASPRS Manual of Photogrammetry (5th edition).
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Hui Lin (1954) has been serving as director of ISEIS of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) since 5 October 2005. Professor Lin graduated from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping with the aerial photogrammetric engineering major in 1980, received his Master of Science degree in cartography and remote sensing from the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1983, and received his Ph.D. in geographic information science from University at Buffalo, USA in 1992. He joined the Department of Geography at CUHK in 1993. Professor Lin specializes in geographic information systems (GIS) and virtual geographic environments (VGE), remote sensing in tropical/sub-tropical region, spatially integrated humanities. He has co-authored nine books and edited eight special issues for top academic journals in his fields such as International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, and Acta Geographica Sinica. He has also published more than one hundred and twenty papers in peer reviewed academic journals.
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Juergen DOELLNER (1967) was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He got his Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Siegen in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1996; his doctoral thesis was on the topic of “object-oriented 3D modeling, animation, and interaction”. After two visits at the University of Urbana Champaign (USA), he got the venia legendi from the University of Muenster, Germany in 2001. In 2001 he was appointed as assistant professor of the University of Potsdam, Germany. In 2003 he became full professor of the chair “analysis, design, and construction of computergraphics systems” at the University of Potsdam. He is head of the Computer Graphics Division at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute at the University of Potsdam (www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/3d) and scientific head of the research group on “3D geoinformation” of the InnoProfile program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, www.3dgi.de). Main research topics represent virtual 3D city models, 3D GIS, and real-time 3D rendering. On-going research activities include developing algorithms for large-scale, massive virtual 3D city models, 3D generalization techniques, non-photorealistic/illustrative geovisualization, 3D annotation, 3D detail-&-context interaction, and web portrayal services. In addition research is concentrating on implementations of CityGML, an upcoming OGC standard for virtual 3D city models. In a number of ongoing industry-related projects investigations concern real-time visibility measures and visibility probabilities within virtual city models, methods for visualizing spatial dynamics, and automated content transformation tools for converting 2D GIS data into 3D virtual city models. He is co-founder of the 3D Geo GmbH, a company specializing in 3D geovisualization and 3D GIS technology (www.3dgeo.de). He is also co-founder of the Lenne3D GmbH, a company focusing on virtual botany (www.lenne3d.de).
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Yehua Sheng (1965) got the bachelor’s degree from China Institute of Mining & Technology in 1986. He got the master’s degree and PhD’s degree from China University of Mining & Technology in 1989 and 1997 respectively. Since 2003, he has been working in Nanjing Normal University and taking charge in the key laboratory of virtual geographic environment, MOE. His main research interests are on data models of 3D GIS, 3D data acquisition from moving pictures, 3D model reconstruction. Recent years, Prof. Sheng is mainly dedicated to acquisition and processing of 3D spatial information and 3D spatial data modeling. He brought up the method of matching images based on grey scale projection and the matching method based on restriction of Delaunay Triangle network and core line was brought up in the field of digital photogrammetry and image matching. Aiming at the construction of 3-dimensional surface modeling using 3D points obtained from 3d laser scanning and digital photogrammetry, he rise the construction method of TIN surface modeling and the concatenation method based on topology. He also brought up the unite organization pattern irrelevant with semantic of 3d vector data and the composite index method unify the internal memory organization and external construction. |
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