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Hongchao Fan

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Hongchao Fan

Professor Dr.-Ing.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering

hongchao.fan@ntnu.no
+4773559665 +4794088365 Byggteknisk, 1-240, Gløshaugen, Høgskoleringen 7a
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Research focuses:

  • 3D city modeling (digital twins)
  • Laser Scanning
  • Photogrammetry
  • Spatial data mining and knowledge discovering by using crowdsourcing data

Projects:

(Detailed description and results of projects could be found on https://www.ntnu.edu/nordig-ai-lab)

  • 2022-2024: Hellios: Enhancing optimal exploitation of solar energy in Nordic cities through the digitalizaiton of the built environment. Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, participation as WP leader. 
  • 2021-2022: Data-driven decision support for renewable energy and infrastructure development: A GIS-based approach, Regionalt Forskningsfond Trøndelag (RRF, Regioinal Research Council in Trøndelag), Project leader
  • 2021-2025: Deep learning-based approach for automated reconstruction of 3D building models with semantic information, funded by NTNU Enabling Technologies (NTNU Digital). PI
  • 2020-2021: Parsing and modeling urban context information for the purpose of
    automated 3D reconstruction, Granted by the Norwegian Research Council (project number: 313552), PI
  • 2019-2021:Modellverktøy for digital kommunikasjonsinfrastruktur langs veg, NRC, collaboration (workpackage) with SINTEF
  • 2017-2020: Exploring coherent relations of semantics and geometries of 3D buildings. NSFC (No: 41771484). PI
  • 2016-2018: A framework for fitness for purpose for the quality assessment of OSM. German Science Foundation (DFG project No. 314644317). PI
  • 2011-2014: Event detection and visualization from VGI data. TUM IGSSE Project. Co PI

  • 2012-2014:  Extracting LoDs for 3D buildings in street view based on visual salience. NSFC (project No: 41101443). PI

Publications

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2025

  • Yan, Hailun; Lau Leong Lee, Albert; Fan, Hongchao. (2025) Evaluating Deep Learning Advances for Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation in Urban Environments. Kartographische Nachrichten
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Jia, Qingren; Ma, Mengyu; Zhong, Zhinong; Li, Jun. (2025) Corrigendum to “How do contributions of organizations impact data inequality in OpenStreetMap?” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 109 (2024), 102077](Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2024) 109, (S0198971524000061), (10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102077)). Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Errata
  • Eggen, Kristin; Fan, Hongchao. (2025) WAPooling: An adaptive plug-and-play module for feature aggregation in point cloud classification networks. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Yixin; Wu, Bin; Kong, Gefei; Zhang, He; Wu, Jianping; Yu, Bailang. (2025) Generating high-resolution DEMs in mountainous regions using ICESat-2/ATLAS photons. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Yang, Shuqi; Lv, Yanjie; Fan, Hongchao; Liang, Lu; Qin, Yuchu. (2025) How Much Distortion We See in the Cyberspace: Geometric Assessment of Smartphone Photography. Photogrammetric Record
    Academic article

2024

  • Yang, Jun; Xie, Hengjing; Fan, Hongchao; Yan, Haowen. (2024) Multi-scale entropy neural architecture search for object detection in remote sensing images. Cehui Xuebao
    Academic article
  • Ding, Linfang; Xiao, Guohui; Pano, Albulen; Fumagalli, Mattia; Chen, Dongsheng; Feng, Yu. (2024) Integrating 3D city data through knowledge graphs. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Huang, Xiao; Wang, Siqin; Yang, Di; Hu, Tao; Chen, Meixu; Zhang, Mengxi. (2024) Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review. Journal of remote sensing
    Academic literature review
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Generating 3D Roof Models from ALS Point Clouds Using Roof Line Topologies. Springer
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Wang, Yuefeng; Jiao, Wei; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2024) A framework for fully automated reconstruction of semantic building model at urban-scale using textured LoD2 data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
    Academic article
  • Qiao, Yiya; Xi, Xiaohuan; Wang, Cheng; Du, Meng; Nie, Sheng; Liu, Wangjun. (2024) A framework for automated reconstruction of communication towers from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Yu, Jianan; Nie, Sheng; Liu, Wenjie; Zhu, Xiaoxiao; Sun, Zhongyi; Li, Jiatong. (2024) Mapping global mangrove canopy height by integrating Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 photon-counting LiDAR data with multi-source images. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Jia, Qingren; Ma, Mengyu; Zhong, Zhinong; Li, Jun. (2024) How do contributions of organizations impact data inequality in OpenStreetMap?. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Academic article
  • Wu, Hao; Li, Yan; Lin, Anqi; Fan, Hongchao; Fan, Kaixuan; Xie, Junyang. (2024) A review of crowdsourced geographic information for land-use and land-cover mapping: current progress and challenges. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic literature review
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Automatic Generation of 3D Roof Training Dataset for Building Roof Segmentation from ALS Point Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Large-scale 3D building reconstruction in LoD2 from ALS point clouds. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
    Academic article
  • Giorio, Martina; Manni, Mattia; Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2024) Urban morphology as an indicator of solar potential on building facades at high latitudes. E3S Web of Conferences
    Academic article
  • Yang, Su; Hou, Miaole; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) CityGML Grotto ADE for modelling niches in 3D with semantic information. Heritage Science
    Academic article

2023

  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) PH-shape: an adaptive persistent homology-based approach for building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Xuke, H.U.; Zhou, Zhiyong; Hao, L.I.; Yingjie, H.U.; Fuqiang, G.U.; Kersten, Jens. (2023) Location Reference Recognition from Texts: A Survey and Comparison. ACM Computing Surveys
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Zhao, Yi; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) Detecting vertices of building roofs from ALS point cloud data. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Uggla, Maria; Olsson, Perola; Abdi, Barzan; Axelsson, Björn; Calvert, Matthew; Christensen, Ulrika. (2023) Future Swedish 3D City Models—Specifications, Test Data, and Evaluation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Zhou, Zhiyong; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Cai, Shangshu; Zhang, Shuhang; Zhang, Wuming; Fan, Hongchao; Shao, Jie; Yan, Guangjian. (2023) A General and Effective Method for Wall and Protrusion Separation from Facade Point Clouds. Journal of remote sensing
    Academic article
  • Zhu, Rui; Kwan, Mei-Po; Perera, A.T.D.; Fan, Hongchao; Yang, Bisheng; Chen, Biyu. (2023) GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition. Advances in Applied Energy
    Academic literature review
  • Ying, Shen; Van Oosterom, Peter; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) New Techniques and Methods for Modelling, Visualization, and Analysis of a 3D City. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (JGSA)
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Yi; Wu, Bin; Li, Qiaoxuan; Yang, Lei; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Jianping. (2023) Combining ICESat-2 photons and Google Earth Satellite images for building height extraction. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Chen, Luo; Jia, Qingren; Li, Jun. (2023) Characterizing behaviors of territorial-dispute-related mapping in OpenStreetMap. Cartography and Geographic Information Science
    Academic article

2022

  • Li, Yuan; Zhao, Long; Chen, Yiping; Zhang, Na; Fan, Hongchao; Zhang, Zhenxin. (2022) 3D LiDAR and multi-technology collaboration for preservation of built heritage in China: A review. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) An Improved Multi-Task Pointwise Network for Segmentation of Building Roofs in Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds. Photogrammetric Record
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Automatic building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data using generative adversarial network. Geocarto International
    Academic article
  • Fang, Lina; Sun, Tongtong; Wang, Shuang; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Jonathan. (2022) A graph attention network for road marking classification from mobile LiDAR point clouds. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Manni, Mattia; Nocente, Alessandro; Kong, Gefei; Skeie, Kristian Stenerud; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Solar energy digitalization at high latitudes: A model chain combining solar irradiation models, a LiDAR scanner, and high-detail 3D building model. Frontiers in Energy Research
    Academic article
  • Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei; Yang, Anran. (2022) Current status and prospects of research for volunteered geographic information. Cehui Xuebao
    Academic article
  • Jiao, Wei; Huang, Wei; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Zhou, Zhiyong; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) GazPNE2: A General Place Name Extractor for Microblogs Fusing Gazetteers and Pretrained Transformer Models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    Academic article

2021

  • Fan, Hongchao; Wang, Yuefeng; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Noskov, Alexey; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Li, Hao; Gu, Fuqiang. (2021) Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Zhiyao; Zheng, Xianwei; Fan, Hongchao; Sun, Mengqi. (2021) Urban spatial structure analysis: quantitative identification of urban social functions using building footprints. Frontiers of Earth Science
    Academic article
  • Fan, Hongchao; Zhao, Zhiyao; Li, Wenwen. (2021) Towards measuring shape similarity of polygons based on multiscale features and grid context descriptors. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Wanzhi. (2021) Automated detecting and placing road objects from street-level images. Computational Urban Science
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Al-Olimat, Hussein S.; Kersten, Jens; Wiegmann, Matti; Klan, Friederike; Sun, Yeran. (2021) GazPNE: annotation-free deep learning for place name extraction from microblogs leveraging gazetteer and synthetic data by rules. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei. (2021) VGI3D: an Interactive and Low-Cost Solution for 3D Building Modelling from Street-Level VGI Images. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (JGSA)
    Academic article
  • Wen, Chenglu; Habib, Ayman F.; Li, Jonathan; Toth, Charles K.; Wang, Cheng; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Special Issue on 3D Sensing in Intelligent Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
    Editorial
  • Li, Songnian; Wachowicz, Monica; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data. Big Earth Data
    Editorial
  • Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei; Zhang, Chaoquan. (2021) An Interactive platform for low-cost 3D building modeling from VGI data using convolutional neural network. Big Earth Data
    Academic article
  • Ding, Xuan; Fan, Hongchao; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Academic article
  • Gefei, Kong; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Enhanced Facade Parsing for Street-Level Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Academic article
  • Wang, Haiping; Zang, Yufu; Liang, Fuxun; Dong, Zheng; Fan, Hongchao; Yang, Bisheng. (2021) A Probabilistic Method for Fractured Cultural Relics Automatic Reassembly. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
    Academic article

2020

  • Dong, Zhen; Liang, Fuxun; Yang, Bisheng; Xu, Yusheng; Zang, Yufu; Li, Jianping. (2020) Registration of large-scale terrestrial laser scanner point clouds: A review and benchmark. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
    Academic literature review
  • Hu, Xuke; Ding, Lei; Shang, Jianga; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Noskov, Alexey. (2020) A Data-driven Approach to Learning Salience Models of Indoor Landmarks by Using Genetic Programming. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Fan, Hongchao; Noskov, Alexey; Wang, Zhiyong; Zipf, Alexander; Gu, Fuqiang. (2020) Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building. Transactions in GIS
    Academic article
  • Wang, Yuefeng; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2020) Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs. Transactions in GIS
    Academic article
  • Shen, Xin; Cao, Lin; Coops, Nicholas C.; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Xiangqian; Liu, Hao. (2020) Quantifying vertical profiles of biochemical traits for forest plantation species using advanced remote sensing approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Yan, Hailun; Lau Leong Lee, Albert; Fan, Hongchao. (2025) Evaluating Deep Learning Advances for Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation in Urban Environments. Kartographische Nachrichten
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Jia, Qingren; Ma, Mengyu; Zhong, Zhinong; Li, Jun. (2025) Corrigendum to “How do contributions of organizations impact data inequality in OpenStreetMap?” [Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 109 (2024), 102077](Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2024) 109, (S0198971524000061), (10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102077)). Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Errata
  • Eggen, Kristin; Fan, Hongchao. (2025) WAPooling: An adaptive plug-and-play module for feature aggregation in point cloud classification networks. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Yixin; Wu, Bin; Kong, Gefei; Zhang, He; Wu, Jianping; Yu, Bailang. (2025) Generating high-resolution DEMs in mountainous regions using ICESat-2/ATLAS photons. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Yang, Shuqi; Lv, Yanjie; Fan, Hongchao; Liang, Lu; Qin, Yuchu. (2025) How Much Distortion We See in the Cyberspace: Geometric Assessment of Smartphone Photography. Photogrammetric Record
    Academic article
  • Yang, Jun; Xie, Hengjing; Fan, Hongchao; Yan, Haowen. (2024) Multi-scale entropy neural architecture search for object detection in remote sensing images. Cehui Xuebao
    Academic article
  • Ding, Linfang; Xiao, Guohui; Pano, Albulen; Fumagalli, Mattia; Chen, Dongsheng; Feng, Yu. (2024) Integrating 3D city data through knowledge graphs. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Huang, Xiao; Wang, Siqin; Yang, Di; Hu, Tao; Chen, Meixu; Zhang, Mengxi. (2024) Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review. Journal of remote sensing
    Academic literature review
  • Wang, Yuefeng; Jiao, Wei; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2024) A framework for fully automated reconstruction of semantic building model at urban-scale using textured LoD2 data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
    Academic article
  • Qiao, Yiya; Xi, Xiaohuan; Wang, Cheng; Du, Meng; Nie, Sheng; Liu, Wangjun. (2024) A framework for automated reconstruction of communication towers from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Yu, Jianan; Nie, Sheng; Liu, Wenjie; Zhu, Xiaoxiao; Sun, Zhongyi; Li, Jiatong. (2024) Mapping global mangrove canopy height by integrating Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 photon-counting LiDAR data with multi-source images. Science of the Total Environment
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Jia, Qingren; Ma, Mengyu; Zhong, Zhinong; Li, Jun. (2024) How do contributions of organizations impact data inequality in OpenStreetMap?. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Academic article
  • Wu, Hao; Li, Yan; Lin, Anqi; Fan, Hongchao; Fan, Kaixuan; Xie, Junyang. (2024) A review of crowdsourced geographic information for land-use and land-cover mapping: current progress and challenges. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic literature review
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Automatic Generation of 3D Roof Training Dataset for Building Roof Segmentation from ALS Point Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Large-scale 3D building reconstruction in LoD2 from ALS point clouds. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
    Academic article
  • Giorio, Martina; Manni, Mattia; Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2024) Urban morphology as an indicator of solar potential on building facades at high latitudes. E3S Web of Conferences
    Academic article
  • Yang, Su; Hou, Miaole; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) CityGML Grotto ADE for modelling niches in 3D with semantic information. Heritage Science
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) PH-shape: an adaptive persistent homology-based approach for building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Xuke, H.U.; Zhou, Zhiyong; Hao, L.I.; Yingjie, H.U.; Fuqiang, G.U.; Kersten, Jens. (2023) Location Reference Recognition from Texts: A Survey and Comparison. ACM Computing Surveys
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Zhao, Yi; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) Detecting vertices of building roofs from ALS point cloud data. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Uggla, Maria; Olsson, Perola; Abdi, Barzan; Axelsson, Björn; Calvert, Matthew; Christensen, Ulrika. (2023) Future Swedish 3D City Models—Specifications, Test Data, and Evaluation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Zhou, Zhiyong; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) How can voting mechanisms improve the robustness and generalizability of toponym disambiguation?. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Cai, Shangshu; Zhang, Shuhang; Zhang, Wuming; Fan, Hongchao; Shao, Jie; Yan, Guangjian. (2023) A General and Effective Method for Wall and Protrusion Separation from Facade Point Clouds. Journal of remote sensing
    Academic article
  • Zhu, Rui; Kwan, Mei-Po; Perera, A.T.D.; Fan, Hongchao; Yang, Bisheng; Chen, Biyu. (2023) GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition. Advances in Applied Energy
    Academic literature review
  • Ying, Shen; Van Oosterom, Peter; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) New Techniques and Methods for Modelling, Visualization, and Analysis of a 3D City. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (JGSA)
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Yi; Wu, Bin; Li, Qiaoxuan; Yang, Lei; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Jianping. (2023) Combining ICESat-2 photons and Google Earth Satellite images for building height extraction. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Yang, Anran; Fan, Hongchao; Chen, Luo; Jia, Qingren; Li, Jun. (2023) Characterizing behaviors of territorial-dispute-related mapping in OpenStreetMap. Cartography and Geographic Information Science
    Academic article
  • Li, Yuan; Zhao, Long; Chen, Yiping; Zhang, Na; Fan, Hongchao; Zhang, Zhenxin. (2022) 3D LiDAR and multi-technology collaboration for preservation of built heritage in China: A review. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) An Improved Multi-Task Pointwise Network for Segmentation of Building Roofs in Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds. Photogrammetric Record
    Academic article
  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Automatic building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data using generative adversarial network. Geocarto International
    Academic article
  • Fang, Lina; Sun, Tongtong; Wang, Shuang; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Jonathan. (2022) A graph attention network for road marking classification from mobile LiDAR point clouds. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
    Academic article
  • Manni, Mattia; Nocente, Alessandro; Kong, Gefei; Skeie, Kristian Stenerud; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Solar energy digitalization at high latitudes: A model chain combining solar irradiation models, a LiDAR scanner, and high-detail 3D building model. Frontiers in Energy Research
    Academic article
  • Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei; Yang, Anran. (2022) Current status and prospects of research for volunteered geographic information. Cehui Xuebao
    Academic article
  • Jiao, Wei; Huang, Wei; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Zhou, Zhiyong; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) GazPNE2: A General Place Name Extractor for Microblogs Fusing Gazetteers and Pretrained Transformer Models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    Academic article
  • Fan, Hongchao; Wang, Yuefeng; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds. Geo-spatial Information Science
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Noskov, Alexey; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Li, Hao; Gu, Fuqiang. (2021) Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic article
  • Zhao, Zhiyao; Zheng, Xianwei; Fan, Hongchao; Sun, Mengqi. (2021) Urban spatial structure analysis: quantitative identification of urban social functions using building footprints. Frontiers of Earth Science
    Academic article
  • Fan, Hongchao; Zhao, Zhiyao; Li, Wenwen. (2021) Towards measuring shape similarity of polygons based on multiscale features and grid context descriptors. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Wanzhi. (2021) Automated detecting and placing road objects from street-level images. Computational Urban Science
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Al-Olimat, Hussein S.; Kersten, Jens; Wiegmann, Matti; Klan, Friederike; Sun, Yeran. (2021) GazPNE: annotation-free deep learning for place name extraction from microblogs leveraging gazetteer and synthetic data by rules. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS)
    Academic article
  • Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei. (2021) VGI3D: an Interactive and Low-Cost Solution for 3D Building Modelling from Street-Level VGI Images. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis (JGSA)
    Academic article
  • Wen, Chenglu; Habib, Ayman F.; Li, Jonathan; Toth, Charles K.; Wang, Cheng; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Special Issue on 3D Sensing in Intelligent Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
    Editorial
  • Li, Songnian; Wachowicz, Monica; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data. Big Earth Data
    Editorial
  • Fan, Hongchao; Kong, Gefei; Zhang, Chaoquan. (2021) An Interactive platform for low-cost 3D building modeling from VGI data using convolutional neural network. Big Earth Data
    Academic article
  • Ding, Xuan; Fan, Hongchao; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
    Academic article
  • Gefei, Kong; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Enhanced Facade Parsing for Street-Level Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Academic article
  • Wang, Haiping; Zang, Yufu; Liang, Fuxun; Dong, Zheng; Fan, Hongchao; Yang, Bisheng. (2021) A Probabilistic Method for Fractured Cultural Relics Automatic Reassembly. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
    Academic article
  • Dong, Zhen; Liang, Fuxun; Yang, Bisheng; Xu, Yusheng; Zang, Yufu; Li, Jianping. (2020) Registration of large-scale terrestrial laser scanner point clouds: A review and benchmark. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
    Academic literature review
  • Hu, Xuke; Ding, Lei; Shang, Jianga; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Noskov, Alexey. (2020) A Data-driven Approach to Learning Salience Models of Indoor Landmarks by Using Genetic Programming. International Journal of Digital Earth
    Academic article
  • Hu, Xuke; Fan, Hongchao; Noskov, Alexey; Wang, Zhiyong; Zipf, Alexander; Gu, Fuqiang. (2020) Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building. Transactions in GIS
    Academic article
  • Wang, Yuefeng; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2020) Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs. Transactions in GIS
    Academic article
  • Shen, Xin; Cao, Lin; Coops, Nicholas C.; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Xiangqian; Liu, Hao. (2020) Quantifying vertical profiles of biochemical traits for forest plantation species using advanced remote sensing approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Generating 3D Roof Models from ALS Point Clouds Using Roof Line Topologies. Springer
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

  • TBA4236 - Teoretisk geomatikk
  • TBA4565 - Geomatikk, fordypningsemne
  • TBA4256 - 3D Digital modellering
  • TBA4231 - Anvendt geomatikk
  • TBA4560 - Geomatikk, fordypningsprosjekt
  • TBA4251 - Programmering i geomatikk
  • TBA4925 - Geomatikk, masteroppgave

Outreach

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Lau, Albert; Yan, Hailun; Fan, Hongchao. (2024) Schematic plan for train position identification using digital twin and positioning sensors. Transport research Arena 2024 , Dublin 2024-04-15 - 2024-04-18

2023

  • Academic lecture
    Fan, Hongchao. (2023) A Rule and Graph-based Approach for 3D Roof Reconstruction from ALS Point Cloud Data. International Society for Digital Earth 13th International Symposium on Digital Earth , Athens 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-14
  • Academic lecture
    Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao. (2023) Generating 3D Roof Models from ALS Point Clouds using Roof Line Topologies. the 18th International 3DGeoInfo Conference 2023 2023-09-12 - 2023-09-14

2020

  • Academic lecture
    Fan, Hongchao. (2020) Exploring urban mobility from crowdsourcing geoinformation data . Innovation Norway Norway-Singapore Science Week 2020 , online 2020-10-26 - 2020-11-06

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