Archived Presentation Abstract

Emerging LIDAR Based Approaches For 3D Mapping

Presentation at Argonne TRACC
May 11, 2012 2:00 PM(CDT)
TRACC Conference Room: Building 222, Room D-233

Dr. Xin Chen
Senior Research Scientist at Nokia
Chicago, IL

Abstract

Modeling real world in the 3D modality is broadly applicable to the surveying, navigation, intelligent vehicle, urban modeling, mapping and augmented reality fields. With the rapid development of LIDAR sensors and global positioning technologies, large scale, geo-referenced and dense 3D point clouds can be captured from the ground level. These point clouds can address large scale issues that are not solvable using image-based stereo, stationary scans and airborne data. I will present emerging research on processing such LIDAR data to efficiently create and maintain accurate 3D maps and visual content on a large scale.

Speaker BIO

Dr. Xin Chen is a Senior Research Scientist in the Location and Commerce Division of NOKIA (formerly NAVTEQ), the world leader in premium digital map, traffic and location data. Xin leads his group in LIDAR, computer vision and image processing research and development and supervises full time engineers, interns and teams of academic collaborators at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Notre Dame and Columbia University. Xin's current work at NOKIA focuses on 3D mapping and visual content creation. During his time at NAVTEQ, he has received 1 U.S Patent, 21 invention development awards and he is the recipient of 2010 and 2011 IMPACT awards to recognize "employees making outstanding contributions". Xin is currently also an adjunct professor and Ph.D. advisor at the Computer Science Department of Illinois Institute of Technology teaching a "Geospatial Vision and Visualization" course at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Xin has been invited to speak on next generation map making technologies at various top-notch U.S. universities. He has numerous publications in GIS, computer vision and multimedia and has patents pending. He has served as a program chair and on the committee for several international conferences and workshops. Xin received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, B.S. in Computer Science and B.B.A. in Management Information Systems from University of Science and Technology of China