Chairs
Since 2022: the Chair of ISPRS ICWG II/Ib on “Digital Construction: Reality Capture, Automated Inspection, and Integration to BIM”. Mehdi Maboudi is a lecturer and senior researcher at the institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (IGP), the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany. With a background in Geomatics and Photogrammetry, his current research topics include point cloud processing, mobile mapping, quality inspection in digital construction, UAV-based high-accuracy mapping and indoor 3D modeling. Since 2020, he is also with the Collaborative Research Center TRR277 “Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC)” which deals with the opportunities and challenges of large-scale Additive Manufacturing in Construction.
Since 2022: the cochair of ISPRS ICWG II/Ib on “Digital Construction: Reality Capture, Automated Inspection, and Integration to BIM”. Yelda Turkan is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. Dr. Turkan’s research focuses on remote sensing and information technology applications for construction engineering and management. She leverages tools such as BIM, lidar, and augmented reality to innovate planning, monitoring, and controlling construction operations, and improve decision making in the Built Environment. Dr. Turkan is the vice president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics for Construction (IAARC). She also serves as the member at large of the ASCE Computing Division Executive Committee.
Since 2022: the cochair of ISPRS ICWG II/Ib on “Digital Construction: Reality Capture, Automated Inspection, and Integration to BIM”. Kourosh Khoshelham is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne. His expertise is mapping and 3D modeling of natural and built environments using photogrammetry and lidar technologies. His research interests also include positioning and navigation in indoor environments, augmented reality, and development of machine learning methods for automated interpretation of imagery and point clouds. He was previously involved in the ISPRS as Co-chair of WG IV/5 where he led the ISPRS Benchmark on Indoor Modeling.
Since 2022: the secretary of ISPRS ICWG II/Ib on “Digital Construction: Reality Capture, Automated Inspection, and Integration to BIM”. Jónatas Valença is Researcher at CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, University of Lisbon and associated professor at Universidade Lusófona. His interests focus on Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring and on the Characterization and Conservation of Built Heritage. This involves design and development of tools based on computer vision, including processing hyper and multispectral images.