Hongchao Fan - NTNU

About

Research focuses:

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

Projects:

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

2022

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. volum 108.
Hu, Xuke; Zhou, Zhiyong; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao; Wiegmann, Matti. (2022) GazPNE2: A General Place Name Extractor for Microblogs Fusing Gazetteers and Pretrained Transformer Models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. volum 9 (17).
Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Automatic building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data using generative adversarial network. Geocarto International.
Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) An Improved Multi-Task Pointwise Network for Segmentation of Building Roofs in Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds. Photogrammetric Record. volum 37 (179).

2021

Ding, Xuan; Fan, Hongchao; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. volum 88.
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. volum 5 (1).
Fan, Hongchao; Wang, Yuefeng; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds. Geo-spatial Information Science. volum 24 (3).
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. volum 10 (5).
Gefei, Kong; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Enhanced Facade Parsing for Street-Level Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. volum 59 (12).
Hu, Xuke; Al-Olimat, Hussein S.; Kersten, Jens; Wiegmann, Matti; Klan, Friederike; Sun, Yeran; Fan, Hongchao. (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). volum 36 (2).
Hu, Xuke; Noskov, Alexey; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Li, Hao; Gu, Fuqiang; Shang, Jianga; Zipf, Alexander. (2021) Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). volum 35 (9).
Li, Songnian; Wachowicz, Monica; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data. Big Earth Data. volum 1 (1).
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. volum 14 (1).
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 (Print). volum 22 (4).
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). volum 5 (2).
Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Wanzhi. (2021) Automated Detecting and Placing Road Objects from Street-level Images. Computational Urban Science.
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.

2020

Dong, Zhen; Liang, Fuxun; Yang, Bisheng; Xu, Yusheng; Zang, Yufu; Li, Jianping; Wang, Xuan; Dai, Wenxia; Fan, Hongchao; Hyyppä, Juha; Stilla, Uwe. (2020) Registration of large-scale terrestrial laser scanner point clouds: A review and benchmark. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS). volum 163.
Hu, Xuke; Ding, Lei; Shang, Jianga; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Noskov, Alexey; Zipf, Alexander. (2020) A Data-driven Approach to Learning Salience Models of Indoor Landmarks by Using Genetic Programming. International Journal of Digital Earth.
Hu, Xuke; Fan, Hongchao; Noskov, Alexey; Wang, Zhiyong; Zipf, Alexander; Gu, Fuqiang; Shang, Jianga. (2020) Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building. Transactions on GIS.
Shen, Xin; Cao, Lin; Coops, Nicholas C.; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Xiangqian; Liu, Hao; Wang, Guibin; Cao, Fulin. (2020) Quantifying vertical profiles of biochemical traits for forest plantation species using advanced remote sensing approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment. volum 250.
Wang, Yuefeng; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2020) Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs. Transactions on GIS. volum 24.

Journal publications

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. volum 108.
Hu, Xuke; Zhou, Zhiyong; Sun, Yeran; Kersten, Jens; Klan, Friederike; Fan, Hongchao; Wiegmann, Matti. (2022) GazPNE2: A General Place Name Extractor for Microblogs Fusing Gazetteers and Pretrained Transformer Models. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. volum 9 (17).
Kong, Gefei; Fan, Hongchao; Lobaccaro, Gabriele. (2022) Automatic building outline extraction from ALS point cloud data using generative adversarial network. Geocarto International.
Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao. (2022) An Improved Multi-Task Pointwise Network for Segmentation of Building Roofs in Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds. Photogrammetric Record. volum 37 (179).
Ding, Xuan; Fan, Hongchao; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. volum 88.
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. volum 5 (1).
Fan, Hongchao; Wang, Yuefeng; Gong, Jianya. (2021) Layout graph model for semantic façade reconstruction using laser point clouds. Geo-spatial Information Science. volum 24 (3).
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. volum 10 (5).
Gefei, Kong; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Enhanced Facade Parsing for Street-Level Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. volum 59 (12).
Hu, Xuke; Al-Olimat, Hussein S.; Kersten, Jens; Wiegmann, Matti; Klan, Friederike; Sun, Yeran; Fan, Hongchao. (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). volum 36 (2).
Hu, Xuke; Noskov, Alexey; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Li, Hao; Gu, Fuqiang; Shang, Jianga; Zipf, Alexander. (2021) Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS). volum 35 (9).
Li, Songnian; Wachowicz, Monica; Fan, Hongchao. (2021) Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data. Big Earth Data. volum 1 (1).
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. volum 14 (1).
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 (Print). volum 22 (4).
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). volum 5 (2).
Zhang, Chaoquan; Fan, Hongchao; Li, Wanzhi. (2021) Automated Detecting and Placing Road Objects from Street-level Images. Computational Urban Science.
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.
Dong, Zhen; Liang, Fuxun; Yang, Bisheng; Xu, Yusheng; Zang, Yufu; Li, Jianping; Wang, Xuan; Dai, Wenxia; Fan, Hongchao; Hyyppä, Juha; Stilla, Uwe. (2020) Registration of large-scale terrestrial laser scanner point clouds: A review and benchmark. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS). volum 163.
Hu, Xuke; Ding, Lei; Shang, Jianga; Fan, Hongchao; Novack, Tessio; Noskov, Alexey; Zipf, Alexander. (2020) A Data-driven Approach to Learning Salience Models of Indoor Landmarks by Using Genetic Programming. International Journal of Digital Earth.
Hu, Xuke; Fan, Hongchao; Noskov, Alexey; Wang, Zhiyong; Zipf, Alexander; Gu, Fuqiang; Shang, Jianga. (2020) Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building. Transactions on GIS.
Shen, Xin; Cao, Lin; Coops, Nicholas C.; Fan, Hongchao; Wu, Xiangqian; Liu, Hao; Wang, Guibin; Cao, Fulin. (2020) Quantifying vertical profiles of biochemical traits for forest plantation species using advanced remote sensing approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment. volum 250.
Wang, Yuefeng; Fan, Hongchao; Zhou, Guoqing. (2020) Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs. Transactions on GIS. volum 24.

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