INTERCOMMISSION WG of ISPRS COMMISSION III

ICWG III/V - IMAGE SEQUENCE

WORKING GROUPS of ISPRS COMMISSION III

WG III/1 - AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION AND ORIENTATION OF OPTICAL SENSORS
WG III/2 - SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION
WG III/3 - PROCESSING OF POINT CLOUDS FROM LASER SCANNERS AND OTHER SENSORS
WG III/4 - AUTOMATIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION FOR CITY-MODELLING
WG III/5 - MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR ROAD EXTRACTION AND TRAFFIC MONITORING

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Marc Pollefeys Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina Campus Box 3175, 205 Sitterson Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3175 USA Tel: +1 919 962 1845 Fax: +1 919 962 1799 E-mail: marc@cs.unc.edu Web: www.cs.unc.edu/~marc/	David Nister Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments University of Kentucky 1 Quality Street, Suite 800 Lexington, KY 40507-1464 USA Tel: +1 859 257 3101 Fax: +1-859-257-1505 E-mail: dnister@cs.uky.edu Web: http://cs.engr.uky.edu	Stephan Heuel Inst. for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation ITC Hengelosestraat 99, P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)53 4874218 Fax: +31 (0)53 4874335 E-mail: heuel@itc.nl E-mail: stephan@heuel.org Web: www.itc.nl

IVWG III/V - Terms of Reference:

• To research in the following topics: tracking single and multiple objects, ego-motion determination for navigation, object and event reconstruction from single and multiple video streams, camera and camera network calibration from video sequences including cameras with non-standard geometry, object identification from video sequences.

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Camillo Ressl Institute of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vienna University of Technology Gusshausstrasse 27-29/E122 A-1040 Wien Austria Tel: +43 1 58801-12234 Fax: +43 1 58801-12299 E-mail: car@ipf.tuwien.ac.at Web: info.tuwien.ac.at/	Peter Sturm INRIA Rhone-Alpes 655 avenue de l'Europe 38330 Montbonnot St. Martin France Tel: +33 4 76 61 52 32 Fax: +33 4 76 61 54 54 E-mail: Peter.Sturm@inrialpes.fr Web: www.inrialpes.fr/	Ilkka Niini Oy Mapvision Ltd Tietajantie 10 02130 Espoo Finland Tel: +358-9-5404 8435 Fax: +358-9-529100 E-mail: ilkka.niini@mapvision.fi Web: http://www.mapvision.fi	Johannes Otepka Institute of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Vienna University of Technology Gusshausstrasse 27-29/E122 A-1040 Wien Austria Tel: +43 1 58801-12213 Fax: +43 1 58801-12299 E-mail: jo@ipf.tuwien.ac.at Web: www.ipf.tuwien.ac.at

WG III/1 - Terms of Reference:

• Promote within ISPRS more or less fully automatic methods for calibration and orientation without requiring markers. Current state-of-the-art methods are to be tested with respect to general applicability and robustness. Thereby, a further refinement and robustification of these methods is to be fostered
• WG III/1 will therefore provide various test data sets for image calibration/orientation tasks and invite researchers to evaluate their algorithms against known ground truth data with respect to general applicability and robustness.

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Olaf Hellwich Technical University of Berlin Computer Vision & Remote Sensing Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 314-22796 Fax: +49 30 314-21104 E-mail: hellwich@cs.tu-berlin.de Web: http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de/~hellwich/	Daniel Scharstein Department of Computer Science Middlebury College 633 Bicentennial Hall Middlebury, VT 05753 USA Tel: +1 802 443 2438 Fax: E-mail: schar@middlebury.edu Web: http://community.middlebury.edu/~schar/	Volker Rodehorst Technical University of Berlin Computer Vision & Remote Sensing Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 314-23 163 Fax: +49 30 314-21 104 E-mail: vr@cs.tu-berlin.de Web: http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de/~vr/

WG III/2 - Terms of Reference:

• Promote more or less fully automatic methods for surface reconstruction. Current state-of-the-art methods with respect to general applicability, reliability and performance are to be tested.
• WG III/2 will therefore provide various synthetic and real test data sets for surface reconstruction tasks and invite researchers to evaluate their algorithms against known ground truth data.

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair
George Vosselman ITC Department of Earth Observation Science Hengelosestraat 99, P.O. Box 6 7500 AA Enschede The Netherlands Tel: +31 53 487 4344 Fax: +31 53 487 4335 E-mail: vosselman@itc.nl Web: http://www.itc.nl/	Claus Brenner University of Hannover Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics Appelstrasse 9a D-30167 Hannover Germany Tel: +49 511 762 5076 Fax: +49 511 762 2780 E-mail: Claus.Brenner@ikg.uni-hannover.de Web: www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/	Juha Hyyppä Finnish Geodetic Institute Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Geodeetinrinne 2, P.O. Box 15 02431 Masala Finland Tel: +358 9 2955 5305 Fax: +358 9 2955 5200 E-mail: juha.hyyppa@fgi.fi Web: www.fgi.fi/

WG III/3 - Terms of Reference:

• Analyse point clouds from laser range finders, but also from multiple view image matching as basis for surface and object reconstruction as well as interpretation. Special problems to be addressed are segmentation and filtering, generation of digital surface models and digital elevation models, earth surface characterization, and automated as well as semi-automated extraction of objects from multiple sources (close range and aerial scans, RGB, NIR and others). There is a close cooperation with the WG V/3 on 'Surface and object reconstruction from terrestrial laser scanners'.

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Franz Rottensteiner Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information The University of Melbourne 723 Swanston Street VIC 3010 Australia Tel: +61-3-83449182 Fax: +61-3-93495185 E-mail: franzr@unimelb.edu.au Web: www.spatialinfocrc.org	Theo Moons Katholieke Universiteit Brussel Center for Mathematical Modeling in CV K.U.Brussel -- Faculteit ETEW Stormstraat 2 B-1000 Brussel Belgium Tel: +32 2 609 18 82 Fax: +32 2 412 4200 E-mail: theo.moons@kubrussel.ac.be Web: http://www.kubrussel.ac.be	Norbert Haala Institute for Photogrammetry Stuttgart University Geschwister-Scholl-Str.24 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49 711 121 3383 Fax: +49 711 121 3297 E-mail: norbert.haala@ifp.uni-stuttgart.de Web: www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de/	Brian Donnelly School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems The University of New South Wales UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 Australia Tel: +61 2 9385 4202 Fax: +61 2 9313 7493 E-mail: b.donnelly@unsw.edu.au Web: http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au

WG III/4 - Terms of Reference:

• Develop and analyse various methods for automatically and efficiently generating high resolution 3D-city models, integrating all types of topographic features, especially buildings and vegetation. Problems addressed are the interpretation of the aerial, space borne and terrestrial image, laser, and (In)SAR data possibly together with information from traditional cartographic products, CAD models, and urban GIS, automatic as well as semi-automatic generation of urban models with level-of-detail (LOD) and inferred attribution including analysis of the trade-off between geometry and radiometry / texture for visualization and the assessment of efficiency and quality of techniques for extraction of buildings and vegetation and their dependence on the quality of the input data.

Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Uwe Stilla Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technical University of Munich Arcisstr. 21 D-80333 Munich Germany Tel: +49 89 289-22671 Fax: +49 89 2809573 E-mail: stilla@bv.tum.de Web: http://www.ipk.bv.tum.de/	Chunsun Zhang Department of Geomatics The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Tel: +61 3 8344 9182 Fax: +61 3 9347 2916 E-mail: chunsun.zhang@sdstate.edu Web: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/people.php?name=Zhang	Stefan Hinz Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technology Technical University of Munich Arcisstr. 21 D-80333 Munich Germany Tel: +49 89 289-23880 Fax: +49 89 2809573 E-mail: Stefan.Hinz@bv.tum.de Web: http://www.ipk.bv.tum.de/

WG III/5 - Terms of Reference:

• Develop, implement, and test models and strategies for automated 2 1/2 D and 3 D road extraction from optical, radar, and laser data. Particular areas of interest are the modelling of to model road crossings for data interpretation, the extraction of road attributes, to develop and test algorithms for detection and velocity estimation of methods for micro- and macro-scale traffic monitoring.