Michael Yang

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Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Observation Science
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Assistant Professor, UT-I-ITC-ACQUAL

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Personal profile

Dr. Michael Ying Yang is currently Assistant Professor with University of Twente (the Netherlands), heading a group working on scene understanding.

He received the PhD degree (summa cum laude) from University of Bonn (Germany) in 2011. From 2008 to 2012, he worked as Researcher with the Department of Photogrammetry, University of Bonn. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute for Information Processing, Leibniz University Hannover. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Senior Researcher at TU Dresden.

His research interests are in the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry with specialization on scene understanding and semantic interpretation from imagery. He published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and currently co-supervise 4 PhD students. He serves as Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, co-chair of ISPRS working group II/5 Dynamic Scene Analysis, and recipient of the ISPRS President's Honorary Citation (2016) and Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2016. Since 2016, he is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is regularly serving as program committee member of conferences and reviewer for international journals.

Teaching

Activities in education

Main educational responsibilities are teaching topics on deep learning, scene understanding with UAVs, image processing, 3D modeling and photogrammetry.

Research interests

Activities in research

His research is in the fields of Computer Vision and Photogrammetry with specialization on Deep Learning, Graphical Models, Scene Understanding, and Multi-Sensor Fusion.

Current supervision (co-promoter) of PhD students in ITC:

Zhenchao Zhang (funded by CSC)

Yaping Lin (funded by CSC)

Ye Lv (funded by CSC)

Keywords

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
computer vision
photogrammetry
image processing
Artificial intelligence
machine learning

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1120 Citations
15 h-Index
44 Article
40 Conference contribution
33 Chapter
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Active and incremental learning for semantic ALS point cloud segmentation
Lin, Y., Vosselman, G., Cao, Y. & Yang, M. Y., Nov 2020, In : ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing. 169, p. 73-92 20 p.
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A deep learning-based surface defect inspection system using multi-scale and channel-compressed features
Yang, J., Fu, G., Zhu, W., Cao, Y., Cao, Y. & Yang, M. Y., Oct 2020, In : IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement. 69, 10, p. 8032-8042 11 p., 9063543.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)
CABiNet: Efficient Context Aggregation Network for Low-Latency Semantic Segmentation
Kumaar, S., Lyu, Y., Nex, F. & Yang, M. Y., 2 Nov 2020, In : arXiv.org. p. 1-8 8 p.
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CONSAC: Robust Multi-Model Fitting by Conditional Sample Consensus
Kluger, F., Brachmann, E., Ackermann, H., Rother, C., Yang, M. Y. & Rosenhahn, B., 16 Jun 2020, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Seattle: IEEE, p. 4633-4642 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Deep learning for monocular depth estimation from UAV images
Madhuanand, L., Nex, F. & Yang, M. Y., 3 Aug 2020, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences: XXIV ISPRS Congress. Paparoditis, N., Mallet, C., Lafarge, F., Remondino, F., Toschi, I. & Fuse, T. (eds.). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), Vol. V-2-2020. p. 451-458 8 p. (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences).
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High resolution remote sensing imagery and derived agricultural field boundaries in Ethiopia.
Nelson, A. (Creator), Marshall, M. T. (Contributor), Crommelinck, S. (Contributor), Kohli, D. (Contributor), Perger, C. (Contributor), Yang, M. (Contributor), Ghosh, A. (Contributor), Fritz, S. (Contributor) & de Bie, K. (Contributor), DANS easy, 5 Sep 2019
DOI: 10.17026/dans-x9y-dwkk, https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:153471
Dataset
ITCVD Dataset
Yang, M. (Creator), DANS easy, 21 Jan 2020
DOI: 10.17026/dans-xnc-h2fu, https://www.persistent-identifier.nl/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-32-gbho
Dataset
UAVid Dataset
Yang, M. (Creator), Yang, M. (Rights Holder), Lyu, Y. (Research team member), Vosselman, G. (Research team member) & Xia, G. S. (Research team member), DANS easy, 19 May 2020
DOI: 10.17026/dans-x9f-w9sa, https://www.persistent-identifier.nl/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-hz-g3xc
Dataset

Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2016
Yang, Michael (Recipient), 2016
Prize
ISPRS President's Honorary Citation
Yang, Michael (Recipient), 2016
Prize
Senior Member of IEEE
Yang, Michael (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Honorary award

1 Editorial work

Elsevier (Publisher)
Michael Yang (Editor), Bodo Rosenhahn (Editor) & Vittorio Murino (Editor)
2 Aug 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work