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Dr. Francesco Nex is currently Associate 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 in the CIEM Project from 2011 to 2014 and then as Researcher. In 2015, Francesco moved to the University of Twente, before as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor at the faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), department of Earth Observation Science (EOS).
His research focuses on the development of innovative solutions fusing elements from photogrammetry, deep learning and adjacent domains such as robotics to promote the application on UAV imagery in a variety of real-world remote sensing and geomatics applications, and their geometric and semantic integration with terrestrial, airborne and satellite data. His aim os is to implement automated, real-time, and transferrable solutions to be adopted in contexts such as disaster management, infrastructure monitoring and precision farming. He was involved in several European and national research projects dealing with the use of UAV data for remote sensing applications.
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 PI of three different ISPRS scientific initiatives. He chaired the UAV-g 2019 conference and he has been serving with different roles several Editorial boards of indexed journals.
Expertise
UAV, real-time mapping, photogrammetry, deep learning, remote sensing
Prizes and awards
- Finalist at the Licinio Ferretti Awards 2010 (supported by BLOM-CGR S.p.A.)
- Winner at the Licinio Ferretti Awards 2011 (supported by BLOM-CGR S.p.A.)
- Sensors (MDPI) Best Paper Awards 2013
- ISPRS President’s Honorary Citation 2020
- E.H. Thomsom award 2020
See also: Francesco's publications on ResearchGate
Teaching
Activities in education
The duties in education cover core modules of Photogrammetry, UAV and 3D modeling.
- Teaching basics of UAV photogrammetry and 3D modelling in GeoInformatics Master courses.
- Teaching photogrammetry and computer vision in S&C Master course.
- Supervised/co-supervised MSc and PhD theses.
He is currently the coordinator of two courses:
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Earth Observation (GeoInformatics)
- 2D and 3D Scene Analysis (Systems & Control)
Other institutional roles
- Member of the Programme Committee of the Master in Systems and Control
- Vice-chair of the Ethics committee (ITC Faculty)
- Member of the University wide Ethics committee
Research interests
Activities in research
Within the topic "UAV-based Geoinformatics" the current focus is on geometric and semantic information extraction from UAV images.
Ongoing projects and activities:
- ISPRS ICWG I/II Chairman - Unmanned Vehicles Systems (UVS): Sensors and Applications.
- PI of the ISPRS Scientific initiative on: "UAV-based Multi-sensor Dataset for Geospatial Research - UseGEO"
- Geospatial UAV cEnter (GUAVE) coordinator
- EU-Project Panoptis
- EU-Project Ingenious
- EFRO UIVER project
Completed Projects at the University of Twente:
- Chair of UAV-g 2019
- World Bank project - UAV mapping in Tanzania
- PI of the ISPRS Scientific Initiative on "Multi-platform Very High Resolution Photogrammetry".
- PI of the eScience Path-Finding Project: Improving Open-source photogrammetric workflows for processing big datasets.
- EU-Project Its4Land
- EU-Project RECONASS
- EU-Project INACHUS
- EU-Project Slice3D
- STW-Project MM-POS optimization
A leaflet describing our activities in the area of mapping from UAV at ITC can be downloaded here.
Projects
Relevant past projects:
- RapidMap: CONCERT- Japan project (EU funded project in the International Cooperation Activities under the Capacities Programme of the F.P.7th for Research and Technology Development - http://rapidmap.fbk.eu/)
- Galileo Project 2013-2014: Automated scene information extraction from a joint analysis of aerial remote sensing images and their photogrammetric DSM - Partner: Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) - GIPSA Lab, France
- STEM Project: the project is commissioned by the Autonomous Province of Trento.
- COSCH Project: Cost Action TD 1201 (Short Term Scientific Mission)
- CIEM Project (Cartographic Information Extraction and Management): co-founded Marie-Curie Actions 7th F.P. - PCOFOUND- GA-2008-226070, acronym “Trentino Project”
Artificial Intelligence Expert
- Edge AI and Sensors
- Computer Vision
- Smart and Service Industry
- Mobility and Transport
- Safe and Security
- Economical / Environmental Impact of AI
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Projects
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Panoptis: H2020 - Panoptis
Kerle, N., Nex, F., Tilon, S. M. & Mavrouli, O.
1/06/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Multi-Resolution Feature Fusion for Image Classification of Building Damages with Convolutional Neural Networks
Duarte, D., Nex, F., Kerle, N. & Vosselman, G., 14 Oct 2018, In: Remote sensing. 10, 10, p. 1-26 26 p., 1636.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile70 Citations (Scopus)175 Downloads (Pure) -
A deep learning approach to DTM extraction from imagery using rule-based training labels
Gevaert, C. M., Persello, C., Nex, F. & Vosselman, G., 1 Aug 2018, In: ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing. 142, p. 106-123 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A fully automatic approach to register mobile mapping and airborne imagery to support the correction of platform trajectories in GNSS-denied urban areas
Jende, P. L. H., Nex, F. C., Gerke, M. & Vosselman, G., 1 Jul 2018, In: ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing. 141, p. 86-99 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Usability of aerial video footage for 3-D scene reconstruction and structural damage assessment
Cusicanqui, J., Kerle, N. & Nex, F. C., 8 Jun 2018, In: Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18, p. 1583-1598 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Multi-Temporal Classification And Change Detection Using UAV Images
Makuti, S., Nex, F. C. & Yang, M. Y., 6 Jun 2018, 2018 ISPRS TC II Mid-term Symposium “Towards Photogrammetry 2020”, 4–7 June 2018, Riva del Garda, Italy. Riva Del Garda: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), p. 651-658 8 p. (The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences; vol. XLII-2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile10 Citations (Scopus)465 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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ISPRS President’s Honorary Citation 2020 for Technical Commission I
Nex, Francesco (Recipient), 2020
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