Best Paper 2025
The U.V. Helava Award, sponsored by Elsevier B.V. and Leica Geosystems AG, is a prestigious ISPRS Award, which was established in 1998 to encourage and stimulate submission of high quality scientific papers by individual authors or groups to the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, to promote and advertise the Journal, and to honour the outstanding contributions of Dr. Uuno V. Helava to research and development in photogrammetry and remote sensing.
The Award is presented to authors of the best paper, written in English and published exclusively in the ISPRS Journal during the four-year period from January of a Congress year, to December of the year prior to the next Congress. The Award consists of a monetary grant of SFr. 10,000 and a plaque. A five-member Jury, comprising experts of high scientific standing, whose expertise covers the main topics included in the scope of the Journal, evaluates the papers. For each year of the four-year period, the best paper is selected, and among these four papers, the one to receive the U.V. Helava Award will be selected. The seventh U.V. Helava Award will be presented at the 25th ISPRS Congress in 2026.
The Jury appointed by the ISPRS Council evaluated papers from volumes 219-230 (2025) and announces its decision for the Best Paper. The winner of the 2025 Best Paper Award is:
"Nothing Stands Still: A spatiotemporal benchmark on 3D point cloud registration under large geometric and temporal change".
by Tao Sun b, Yan Hao a, Shengyu Huang c, Silvio Savarese b,d, Konrad Schindler a, Marc Pollefeys a,e, Iro Armenib
a ETH Zurich, Switzerland
b Stanford University, USA
c NVIDIA, Switzerland
d Salesforce research, USA
e Microsoft, Zurich, Switzerland
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| Tao Sun |
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Yan Hao |
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Shengyu Huang |
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Silvio Savarese |
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| Konrad Schindler |
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Marc Pollefeys |
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Iro Armeni |
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published in Volume 190, August 2022, Pages 196-214,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.01.010
Jury's rationale for the paper selection
This paper addresses the significant issue of 3D point cloud registration, with a specific focus on 3D scenes undergoing large spatial and temporal changes. More importantly, the paper contributes to the challenge of constantly changing datasets. The main contribution consists of a novel dataset and benchmark for both pairwise and multi-way set-ups. Performance evaluation is comprehensive and involves several state-of-the-art approaches. Grounded on large-scale, real-world structural changes over time, the NSS paper is believed to be highly beneficial to peers in the forthcoming years and could enable applications in numerous domains such as robotics or construction. Therefore, it very deserves the best paper award for 2025.
On behalf of the ISPRS and the U.V. Helava Award Jury, I would like to congratulate the authors for this distinction and thank them for their contribution. I would also like to thank the sponsors of the Award, and the Jury members for their thorough evaluations.
Clément Mallet
Editor-in-Chief
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
Univ Gustave Eiffel, IGN, Géodata Paris, LASTIG, France
E-mail address: clement.mallet@ign.fr