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Research Interests and Projects

Research interests

Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing systems including intelligent mobile systems for automated and autonomous sensing and mapping applications; 3D reconstruction from optical and range data, spatial awareness and intelligence, and Machine and Deep Learning methods for autonomous navigation, land-cover change detection, image segmentation, classification, satellite-derived bathymetry, and satellite-based air pollution monitoring.

 Research projects

  • Remotely piloted mobile mapping systems – Towards robotic mapping
  • Robotic mapping, monitoring and tracking – Development of low-cost unmanned aerial mapping systems (UAMS).
  • Model-based pose estimation.
  • Low-cost dual IMU vision-based navigation.
  • RGB-D based localization and mapping.
  • Tree species classification from UAV RGB and MS images
  • Building detection from imagery
  • Spatial change detection from imagery
  • Photogrammetric object tracking from mobile video images
  • Rigid and non-rigid surface alignment
  • Bluetooth based indoor positioning and navigation
  • Robotic navigation and mapping using omni-directional camera
  • 3D building evacuation route modelling and visualization
  • Pavement surface condition evaluation using video images
  • Traffic sign detection and classification from mobile lidar and image data
  • Improved global web map visualization
  • 3D virtual models
  • Prioritization of disaster risks in a community using GIS techniques
  • Estimation of surface NO2 using TEMPO satellite data
  • Satellite-derived bathymetric mapping

Updated on July 12th, 2026.