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IGiG scientific seminar - Prof. Christian Heipke

06-03-2025

IGiG is pleased to invite to a scientific seminar, which will take place on March 13, 2024 (Thursday) at 9:00 AM in the Room 100G (institute library), Grunwaldzka Street 53, Wrocław (Building C1). Prof. Christian Heipke from Leibniz University Hannover will give a lecture: "AI in photogrammetry and remote sensing".

Abstract: Photogrammetry is a technique for image capture and analysis, as well as 3D reconstruction from images, which has its roots in the 19th century. When space images became available, remote sensing was added to the name of the discipline. Recently, also the term computer vision has been extensively used to describe essentially the same methods, techniques and algorithms.

This talk focusses on geospatial applications of photogrammetry and remote sensing, dealing with aerial images, digital surface and terrain models, digital orthophotos, digital landscape models, and 3D city models. Today, the input and the data flow are completely digital and to a large extent automatic, the latter in part thanks to the recent developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.

After a short introduction of photogrammetry, remote sensing and computer vision, an overview of current sensor systems for geospatial data acquisition, as well as automatic data processing procedures, both for geometric and for sematic results, is given. A focus is laid on methods borrowed from deep learning.

Bio: Prof. Christian Heipke is a professor of photogrammetry and remote sensing at Leibniz Universität Hannover, where he currently leads a group of about 25 researchers. His professional interests comprise all aspects of photogrammetry, remote sensing, image understanding and their connection to computer vision and GIS. His has authored or co-authored close to 500 scientific papers, more than 100 of which appeared in peer-reviewed international journals. He also supervised more than 40 PhD candidates as main supervisor.

From 2011-2014 he was chair of the German Geodetic Commission (DGK), since 2012 he serves on the Council of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), from 2016-2022 as President.

He is a member of different learnt societies. His work has been recognised various times, he is, e.g., the recipient of the 2012 ISPRS Fred Doyle Award and the 2013 ASPRS Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award. In 2023 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.