Welcome

Welcome to ISPRS's working group III/5 "Road Extraction and Traffic Monitoring" of ISPRS commission III "Photogrammetric Computer Vision".

In the past decade, the automatic extraction and monitoring of roads using image data has become an important field of research. While the motivation of practitioners is mainly found in the generation and update of Geographical Information Systems, experience with road extraction over the years has shown that automating this task is a difficult challenge since many theoretical foundations are still missing. An additional observation over the recent years is continuing convergence of researchers in the fields of road extraction and GIS update on one side and traffic monitoring on the other side.

Besides supporting the development of theoretical and algorithmic advances in each of these fields, an important goal of this working group is to build-up a common platform of researchers of both communities. We aim at looking at the challenges of road extraction and traffic monitoring from unified perspective being sure that fruitful synergies between both fields can be found, which in turn will speed-up the developments in each of it.

Terms of References

Models and strategies for automated 2 1/2 D and 3 D road extraction from optical, radar, and laser data
Modeling road crossings for data interpretation
Updating of existing 3D city models and road data bases
Algorithms for detection and velocity estimation of vehicles from remote sensing data
Methods for micro- and macro-scale traffic monitoring
Quality assessment of automatically extracted topographic objects

Officers

Chair	Co-Chair	Scientific Secretary

Uwe Stilla	Chunsun Zhang	Stefan Hinz
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technische Universitaet Muenchen	GISc Center of Excellence South Dakota State University	Remote Sensing Technology Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Arcisstrasse 21 80333 Muenchen Germany	Wecota Hall-506B Brookings, SD 57007 USA	Arcisstrasse 21 80333 Muenchen Germany
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stilla@bv.tu-muenchen.de	chunsun.zhang@sdsu.edu	stefan.hinz@bv.tu-muenchen.de