ICT lab researcher Pinjing Xu will be presenting our work “Delineation of Road Networks Using Deep Residual Neural Networks and Iterative Hough Transform”. The work is co-authored with Pinjing Xu and Charalambos Poullis. In this paper we present a complete pipeline for extracting road network vector data from satellite RGB

Join us at the 16th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2019 [https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~mbrown/CRV19/] ICT lab researcher Bodhiswatta Chatterjee will be presenting our work “On Building Classification from Remote Sensor Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks and the Relation Between Classification and Reconstruction Accuracy Using Border

Our work on “Large-scale Urban Reconstruction with Tensor Clustering and Global Boundary Refinement” has been published as a regular journal paper in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019. The work is authored by C. Poullis. Abstract: Accurate and efficient methods for large-scale urban reconstruction are of significant

DAEDALUS(Massive-scale Urban Reconstruction, Classification, and Rendering from Remote Sensor Imagery) has received $599,317.50 CAD in funding from Presagis Inc, Canada’s Department of National Defense, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under grant agreement DNDPJ515556- 17. On August 1st, 2018, the kick-off meeting

Join us at the 3DTV Conference 2018 [https://3dtv-con.org] ICT lab researcher Chen Qiao will be presenting our work on “Single-shot Dense Reconstruction with Epic-flow”. This work is co-authored with Chen Qiao, Charalambos Poullis. Abstract: In this paper we present a novel method for generating dense reconstructions by applying

The Photogrammetric Vision lab of the Cyprus University of Technology [https://photogrammetric-vision.weebly.com]will be presenting the joint work “Underwater Photogrammetry in Very Shallow Waters: Caustics Effect Removal and Main Challenges” at the ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium, 2018 [https://www.isprs.org/tc2-symposium2018/]. This work was done in

Our work “DeepCaustics: Classification and Removal of Caustics from Underwater Imagery” will appear as a regular journal publication in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 2018. This work is co-authored with Timothy Forbes, Mark Goldsmith, Sudhir Mudur, Charalambos Poullis. Abstract: Caustics are complex physical phenomena resulting from the projection of light

Join us at the 15th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2018 [https://computerrobotvision.pagecloud.com] ICT lab researcher Timothy Forbes will be presenting our work on “Deep Autoencoders with Aggregated Residual Transformations for Urban Reconstruction from Remote Sensing Data”. This work is co-authored with Timothy Forbes and Charalambos Poullis.

ICT lab researcher Mhd Adnan Utayim has been awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. The proposal is on “3D Reconstruction of large-scale areas from remote-sensor data”. A summary of the project is shown below: In the proposed work we will explore other methods to alleviate issues relating to large-scale

Our journal paper “Reflecting on the Design Process for Virtual Reality Applications” has been published and is available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10447318.2018.1443898 Abstract: A reflective analysis on the experience of Virtual Environment (VE) design is presented focusing on the human computer interaction

Abstract: Object classification is one of the many holy grails in computer vision and as such has resulted in a very large number of algorithms being proposed already. Specifically in recent years there has been considerable progress in this area primarily due to the increased efficiency and accessibility of deep

Join us at the 25th ACM Multimedia conference in Mountain View, CA, USA. [https://www.acmmm.org/2017/] ICT lab researcher Behnam Maneshgar will be presenting our work “Automatic Adjustment of Stereoscopic Content for Long-Range Projections in Outdoor Areas”. The work is co-authored with Leila Sujir, Sudhir Mudur, and Charalambos

Join us at the 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications 2017 [https://vsgames.org/2017/] ICT Lab researcher Oliver Philpin-Briscoe will be presenting our paper “A Serious Game for Understanding Ancient Seafaring in the Mediterranean Sea”. The work is co-authored with B. Simon, S. Mudur,

Fabio Bruno [3D Research s.r.l. – University of Calabria] will be presenting our paper “Development and integration of digital technologies addressed to raise awareness and access to European underwater cultural heritage. An overview of the H2020 i-MARECULTURE project” at the IEEE OCEANS 2017 conference. Abstract: The Underwater Cultural Heritage

In conjunction with the project “Exploring Elastic 3D Spaces: bodies and belonging” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and in collaboration with Elastic Spaces ( https://www.elasticspaces.hexagram.ca/), the Immersive & Creative Technologies Lab (www.theICTlab.org) at Concordia University is recruiting a highly-motivated

Join us at the  2017 IEEE 3DTV-CON: True Vision – Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, 3DTV-CON [https://www.3dtv-con.org/]. ICT Lab researcher Xichen Zhou will be presenting our paper “Automatic 2D to Stereoscopic Video Conversion for 3D TVs”. The work is co-authored with Bipin C. Desai, Charalambos Poullis.

ICT lab researcher Oliver Philbin-Briscoe has been awarded the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. The proposal is on “Interactive Technologies in Virtual Reality”. A summary of the project is shown below: The impressive successes in low-cost VR technologies (Oculus Rift, Virtuix Omni, Microsoft HoloLens/Illumiroom, movement detectors and sensor points

In cooperation with the iMareCulture project, we are organizing a Workshop on Serious Games and Cultural Heritage in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications 2017. Scope The overall objectives of the workshop are the discussion and sharing of knowledge, and scientific and

Join us at the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, GRAPP 2017 [https://www.grapp.visigrapp.org/]. ICT Lab researcher Behnam Maneshgar will be presenting our paper “A Long-Range Vision System for Projection Mapping of Stereoscopic Content in Outdoor Areas“. The work

iMARECULTURE:Advanced VR, iMmersive serious games and Augmented REality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater CULTURal heritagE. The principal invesigator of the project is Prof. D. Skarlatos  from the Cyprus University of Technology. The ICT lab is a member of the consortium and is working on

3DUNDERWORLD-SLS v4 has been released. The latest version features multiple optimizations in the processing pipeline. 3DUNDERWORLD-SLS v4.x requires two or more cameras and includes a CUDA GPU implementation as well as a CPU implementation in case an Nvidia card is not found. In this version, we provide a generic

This [https://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=%2Fresearch%2Fheadlines%2Fnews%2Farticle_16_06_24_en.html%3Finfocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=40076&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook] is an article about our 3DUNDERWORLD-SLS software written by European Commission’s Innovation Union.

Details about important dates and submission instructions can be found on the workshop’s website: https://www.multimediauts.org/3DWorkshop_CVPR2016/ Recent research on large scale 3D data has been boosted by a number of rapid academic and industrial advances. 3D sensing devices, ranging from consumer depth cameras like Microsoft’

During a four-day international research colloquium from February 24th to 27th, 2016, the Elastic 3D Space group of Researchers, lead by Artists, Designers and Computer Scientists, will explore the potential of stereoscopic technologies with artistic practices. This event brings together over 15 researchers, artists and industry experts to share their