Speaker Bio & Abstract
Founder, Point Cloud Technology
Germany
BiographyDr. Rico Richter has many years of experience in the development of processing, analysis and visualization techniques for massive 3D point clouds. He studied IT Systems Engineering and received his PhD at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. He is CEO of the Point Cloud Technology GmbH (www.pointcloudtechnology.com) which provides IT solutions for the management and application of large-scale, highly detailed point clouds.AbstractToday, landscapes, cities, and infrastructure networks are commonly captured using LiDAR or image-based remote sensing technologies at regular intervals. The resulting 3D point clouds are digital twins of the captured surfaces and provide valuable information. Consequently, 3D point clouds have become essential for a growing number of applications, such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, forestry, BIM and disaster management.
Analytics for 3D point clouds are an essential tool to generate insights and raise the value of the data. In this talk, we present techniques to manage, analyze, and distribute large-scale 3D point clouds. We show how machine learning techniques for 3D data can be used to classify 3D point clouds from aerial and mobile mapping scans of large-scale real-world data sets. In addition, web-based solutions to visualize and share 3D point clouds are presented.