Photogrammetry Principles and Applications

Jonathan Li is currently a Professor of Geomatics and Systems Design Engineering in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and IEEE. Dr. Li serves as the President of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG). His primary research interests include AI-empowered Earth observation for geospatial mapping and LiDAR remote sensing for digital twin cities and autonomous driving. He has co-authored over 600 publications, more than 300 of which have appeared in top remote sensing journals and leading computer vision and AI conferences. His work has garnered over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 76. Additionally, he has supervised over 200 master's and Ph.D. students, as well as postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars, to successful completion. Yiping Chen is an Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China, specializing in mobile laser scanning data analysis, 3D point cloud computer vision, and autonomous driving. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Her work has been presented at major conferences including CVPR, IGARSS, and ISPRS; and she received the 2020 Best Paper award from the Journal of Applied Geodesy. Haiyan Guan is a Senior Member of the IEEE. She is a Professor at the School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include information extraction from LiDAR point clouds and Earth observation images. Prof. Guan has published over 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings, including IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, as well as proceedings from IGARSS and ISPRS. Additionally, Prof. Haiyan Guan edited the book Urban Remote Sensing (Wiley, 2011) and has published more than 50 papers related to LiDAR 3D point clouds using AI.

• 1. Laser Scanners2. Laser Registration3. 3D reconstruction4. Digital Elevation Models5. Point cloud expression and description6. Point clouds detection and tracking7. Point clouds semantic segmentation8. Point clouds instance segmentation9. Point clouds interactive segmentation10. Point clouds software11. Application examples