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Mapping the World with Drones!

By Prof Long QUAN

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Date:	20 Mar 2017

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong

Enquires:	Miss Fanny Yue 2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk

Professor Quan leads a team that uses photographs and deep visual learning technologies to produce complete 3D models of all types of locations on Earth. In this talk, he reviews the developments in computer vision and machine learning over the past three decades. He also turns the focus on recent exciting work in deep visual learning and large-scale 3D reconstruction using drone photographs. Here, he showcases the approach using case studies of hundreds of square kilometers in both high-rise metropolitan areas and undeveloped rural areas in a variety of different countries. He also demonstrates the online cloud platform and portal www.altizure.com with its crowdsourced Altizure Earth, developed and funded by the HKUST team, rivaling the popular Google earth!

Prof Long QUAN
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Long QUAN is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST. He received his PhD in 1989 in Computer Science from INPL, France. He became a permanent researcher at CNRS in 1990 and was appointed to INRIA in Grenoble, France. He joined HKUST in 2001, and was the founding director of the HKUST Center for Visual Computing and Image Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society. He found the altizure.com.

He works on vision geometry, 3D reconstruction and image-based modeling. He was voted one of the HKUST Best Ten Lecturers in 2004 and 2009. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and is a Regional Editor of Image and Vision Computing Journal. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Machine Vision and Applications, and Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision. He was a Program Chair of IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2006 Computer Vision and Image Analysis, a Program Chair of ICPR 2012 Computer and Robot Vision, and a General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011.