I'm a geodesist with an MSc degree from the Delft University of Technology and a PhD degree from the University of Bonn, Germany. I'm professor in Geo-information Extraction with Sensor Systems  at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands. I am also head of the Department of Earth Observation Science and mentor for the Algorithms and Software AI specialisation of the Robotics Master's programme. My research fields are photogrammetry and laser scanning (lidar). This includes the extraction of spatial and semantic information from images and point clouds, nowadays often based on deep learning.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Image
    • Laser Scanning
    • Building
    • Airborne Laser Scanning
  • Computer Science

    • Models
    • Point Cloud
    • Image Segmentation
    • Detection

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Ancillary activities

  • ElsevierEditor-in-Chief ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Netherlands Center of Geodesy and GeoinformaticsTreasurer of the Netherlands Center of Geodesy and Geoinformatics

For more information on my research, please check the links below the recent publications.

Publications

2025

Multimodal rationales for explainable visual question answering (2025)[Contribution to conference › Paper] The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. Li, K., Vosselman, G. & Yang, M. Y.https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025W/MULA2025/html/Li_Multimodal_Rationales_for_Explainable_Visual_Question_Answering_CVPRW_2025_paper.htmlRoIPoly: Vectorized building outline extraction using vertex and logit embeddings (2025)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 224, 317-328. Jiao, W., Cheng, H., Vosselman, G. & Persello, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.03.030Scale-wise Bidirectional Alignment Network for referring remote sensing image segmentation (2025)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 226, 350-363 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Li, K., Vosselman, G. & Yang, M. Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.05.014

2024

PolyR-CNN: R-CNN for end-to-end polygonal building outline extraction (2024)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 218, 33-43. Jiao, W., Persello, C. & Vosselman, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.10.006HRVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for High-Resolution Aerial Images (2024)ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 214, 65-81. Li, K., Vosselman, G. & Yang, M. Y.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.06.002Multi-Modal Earth Observation and Deep Learning for Urban Scene Understanding (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Maiti, A.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560290End-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/drones8020033Recognition of Indoor Scenes using 3D Scene Graphs (2024)IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 62, 1-16. Article 5703216. Yue, H., Lehtola, V., Wu, H., Vosselman, G., Li, J. & Liu, C.https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2024.3387556

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Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1330
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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