Prof. Francesco Nex is currently Associate (UHD1) Professor in the Earth Observation Science (EOS) Department at the University of Twente.
Francesco Nex received his master degree in Environmental Engineering (2006) and his PhD degree (2010) from the TU Turin (Italy). From 2011 to 2015 he was with the 3DOM unit of FBK (Italy) working as Marie-Curie Post-Doc from 2011 to 2014 and then as Researcher. In 2015, Francesco moved to the University of Twente, where he worked as Assistant and then Associate Professor at the faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). His research focuses on fusing elements from photogrammetry , deep learning and robotics to develop innovative solutions for Geomatics applications. Francesco is author of over 150 publications in international journals and conferences. He is/was involved in several European and national research projects dealing with UAV data processing. He is leading the UAV centre of the ITC Faculty. He is the Chairman of the ICWG I/II (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: sensors and applications) of the ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) and he was the PI of three ISPRS scientific initiatives. He has been serving in different roles on the Editorial boards of three indexed journals. In 2020, he was awarded with the ISPRS Presidentâs Honorary Citation and the E.H. Thomson Award.
Expertise
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Image
- Datum
- Pilotless Aircraft
- Damage
- Accuracy
- Building
Computer Science
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Detection
Organisations
Publications
2024
Depth estimation and 3D reconstruction from UAV-borne imagery: Evaluation on the UseGeo dataset (2024)ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 13. Article 100065. Hermann, M., Weinmann, M., Nex, F., Stathopoulou, E. K., Remondino, F., Jutzi, B. & Ruf, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophoto.2024.100065UseGeo - A UAV-based multi-sensor dataset for geospatial research (2024)ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 13. Article 100070. Nex, F., Stathopoulou, E. K., Remondino, F., Yang, M. Y., Madhuanand, L., Yogender, Y., Alsadik, B., Weinmann, M., Jutzi, B. & Qin, R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophoto.2024.100070Automatic Road Pavement Distress Recognition Using Deep Learning Networks from Unmanned Aerial Imagery (2024)Drones , 8(6). Article 244. Samadzadegan, F., Dadrass Javan, F., Ashtari Mahini, F., Gholamshahi, M. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8060244Deep Learning Low-cost Photogrammetry for 4D Short-term Glacier Dynamics Monitoring (2024)PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science. Ioli, F., Dematteis, N., Giordan, D., Nex, F. & Pinto, L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s41064-023-00272-wEnd-to-End Nano-Drone Obstacle Avoidance for Indoor Exploration (2024)Drones , 8(2). Article 33. Zhang, N., Nex, F. C., Vosselman, G. & Kerle, N.https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8020033Towards Fully Autonomous UAV: Damaged Building-Opening Detection for Outdoor-Indoor Transition in Urban Search and Rescue (2024)Electronics, 13(3), 1-17. Article 558. Surojaya, A., Zhang, N., Bergado, J. R. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13030558
2023
Preface: Workshop âIAMS - Intelligent Autonomous Mapping Systemsâ (2023)International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48(1/W2-2023), 1987. Nex, F., Chiabrando, F. & Honkavaara, E.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W2-2023-1987-2023Preface: Workshop âIAMS - Intelligent Autonomous Mapping Systemsâ (2023)ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10(1-W1-2023), 1159. Nex, F., Chiabrando, F. & Honkavaara, E.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-1-W1-2023-1159-2023Vehicle Tracking and Speed Estimation From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Segmentation-initialised Trackers (2023)In Geospatial Week 2023, Vol. 10-1 (pp. 431-437) (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Tilon, S. M. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-1-W1-2023-431-2023Dense point cloud extraction from UAV imagery using parallax attention (2023)In Geospatial Week 2023, Vol. 10-1: ISPRS Geospatial Week 2023 (pp. 1027-1032) (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Bergado, J. R. & Nex, F. C.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-1-W1-2023-1027-2023Mono-hydra: Real-time 3D scene graph construction from monocular camera input with IMU (2023)In Geospatial Week 2023, Vol. 10-1 (pp. 439-445) (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences). Copernicus. Udugama, U. V. B. L., Vosselman, G. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-1-W1-2023-439-2023Supporting first responders in emergencies using computer vision and drones (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Zhang, N.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558440Benchmarking the Extraction of 3d Geometry From Uav Images with Deep Learning Methods (2023)International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 48(1/W3-2023), 123-130. Nex, F., Zhang, N., Remondino, F., Farella, E. M., Qin, R. & Zhang, C.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W3-2023-123-2023A Routine and Post-disaster Road Corridor Monitoring Framework for the Increased Resilience of Road Infrastructures (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Tilon, S. M.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036557115Hybrid adjustment of UAS-based LiDAR and image data (2023)In Geospatial Week 2023, Vol. 48-1: ISPRS Geospatial Week 2023 (pp. 633-640). Copernicus. Alsadik, B., Nex, F. & Yadav, Y.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W2-2023-633-2023Lite-Mono: A Lightweight CNN and Transformer Architecture for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation (2023)In 2023 Ieee/cvf Conference On Computer Vision And Pattern Recognition (cvpr) (pp. 18537-18546). Zhang, N., Nex, F. C., Vosselman, G. & Kerle, N.https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01778Mono-hydra: Real-time 3D scene graph construction from monocular camera input with IMU (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Udugama, U. V. B. L., Vosselman, G. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.05515Deep learning low-cost photogrammetry for 4D short-term glacier dynamics monitoring - Supplementary material (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Ioli, F., Niccolò, D., Daniele, G., Francesco, N. & Livio, P.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8164639UAV Remote Sensing for Smart Agriculture (2023)GIM International, 2023(1), 14-17. Article issue 7 volume 36. Alsadik, B., Dadrass Javan, F. & Nex, F. C.Empowering students with geospatial solutions through challenge-based learning (2023)In SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education: Engineering Education for Sustainability, Proceedings (pp. 315-324) (SEFI 2023 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education: Engineering Education for Sustainability, Proceedings). Societe Europeenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs (SEFI). Dadrass Javan, F., Nex, F., Samadzadegan, F., Alsadik, B., Buuk, L. & Askari, O.https://doi.org/10.21427/H6EN-NS11Icepy4d: A Python Toolkit for Advanced Multi-epoch Glacier Monitoring with Deep-learning Photogrammetry (2023)In Geospatial Week 2023, Vol. 48-1 (pp. 1037-1044) (International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives). Ioli, F., Barbieri, F., Gaspari, F., Nex, F. & Pinto, L.https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-1-W2-2023-1037-2023UseGEO dataset (2023)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). Nex, F.
2022
Microdrone-Based Indoor Mapping with Graph SLAM (2022)Drones , 6(11), 1-26. Article 352. Karam, S., Nex, F., Chidura, B. T. & Kerle, N.https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6110352Simulating a hybrid acquisition system for UAV platforms (2022)Drones , 6(11). Article 314. Alsadik, B., Remondino, F. & Nex, F.https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6110314Towards improved unmanned aerial vehicle edge intelligence: a road infrastructure monitoring case study (2022)Remote sensing, 14(16). Article 4008. Tilon, S., Nex, F., Vosselman, G., Llave, I. S. d. l. & Kerle, N.https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14164008
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Courses academic year 2024/2025
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Courses academic year 2023/2024
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