Hongchao Fan
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
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2011-2014: Event detection and visualization from VGI data. TUM IGSSE Project. Co PI
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2012-2014: Extracting LoDs for 3D buildings in street view based on visual salience. NSFC (project No: 41101443). PI
Publications
2023
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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.
volum 117.
Academic article
-
Uggla, Maria;
Olsson, Perola;
Abdi, Barzan;
Axelsson, Björn;
Calvert, Matthew;
Christensen, Ulrika;
Gardevärn, Daniel;
Hirsch, Gabriel;
Jeansson, Eric;
Kadric, Zuhret;
Lord, Jonas;
Loreman, Axel;
Persson, Andreas;
Setterby, Ola;
Sjöberger, Maria;
Stewart, Paul;
Rudenå, Andreas;
Ahlström, Andreas;
Bauner, Mikael;
Hartman, Kendall;
Pantazatou, Karolina;
Liu, Wenjing;
Fan, Hongchao;
Kong, Gefei;
Liu, Hang;
Harrie, Lars.
(2023)
Future Swedish 3D City Models—Specifications, Test Data, and Evaluation.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
volum 12 (2).
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
-
Zhao, Yi;
Wu, Bin;
Li, Qiaoxuan;
Yang, Lei;
Fan, Hongchao;
Wu, Jianping;
Yu, Bailang.
(2023)
Combining ICESat-2 photons and Google Earth Satellite images for building height extraction.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
volum 117.
Academic article
-
Zhu, Rui;
Kwan, Mei-Po;
Perera, A.T.D.;
Fan, Hongchao;
Yang, Bisheng;
Chen, Biyu;
Chen, Min;
Qian, Zhen;
Zhang, Haoran;
Zhang, Xiaohu;
Yang, Jinxin;
Santi, Paolo;
Ratti, Carlo;
Li, Wenting;
Yan, Jinyue.
(2023)
GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition.
Advances in Applied Energy.
volum 10.
Academic literature review
2022
-
Fan, Hongchao;
Kong, Gefei;
Yang, Anran.
(2022)
Current status and prospects of research for volunteered geographic information.
Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica.
volum 51 (7).
Academic article
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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.
Academic article
-
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).
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.
volum 15 (1).
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
-
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.
volum 116.
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.
volum 10.
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.
volum 37 (179).
Academic article
2021
-
Ding, Xuan;
Fan, Hongchao;
Gong, Jianya.
(2021)
Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
volum 88.
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
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).
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.
volum 10 (5).
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.
volum 59 (12).
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
Li, Songnian;
Wachowicz, Monica;
Fan, Hongchao.
(2021)
Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data.
Big Earth Data.
volum 1 (1).
Editorial
-
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).
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 (Print).
volum 22 (4).
Editorial
-
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).
Academic article
-
Zhang, Chaoquan;
Fan, Hongchao;
Li, Wanzhi.
(2021)
Automated Detecting and Placing Road Objects from Street-level Images.
Computational Urban Science.
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
2020
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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.
Academic literature review
-
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.
Academic article
-
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.
Academic article
-
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.
Academic article
-
Wang, Yuefeng;
Fan, Hongchao;
Zhou, Guoqing.
(2020)
Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs.
Transactions on GIS.
volum 24.
Academic article
Journal publications
-
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.
volum 117.
Academic article
-
Uggla, Maria;
Olsson, Perola;
Abdi, Barzan;
Axelsson, Björn;
Calvert, Matthew;
Christensen, Ulrika;
Gardevärn, Daniel;
Hirsch, Gabriel;
Jeansson, Eric;
Kadric, Zuhret;
Lord, Jonas;
Loreman, Axel;
Persson, Andreas;
Setterby, Ola;
Sjöberger, Maria;
Stewart, Paul;
Rudenå, Andreas;
Ahlström, Andreas;
Bauner, Mikael;
Hartman, Kendall;
Pantazatou, Karolina;
Liu, Wenjing;
Fan, Hongchao;
Kong, Gefei;
Liu, Hang;
Harrie, Lars.
(2023)
Future Swedish 3D City Models—Specifications, Test Data, and Evaluation.
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
volum 12 (2).
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
-
Zhao, Yi;
Wu, Bin;
Li, Qiaoxuan;
Yang, Lei;
Fan, Hongchao;
Wu, Jianping;
Yu, Bailang.
(2023)
Combining ICESat-2 photons and Google Earth Satellite images for building height extraction.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
volum 117.
Academic article
-
Zhu, Rui;
Kwan, Mei-Po;
Perera, A.T.D.;
Fan, Hongchao;
Yang, Bisheng;
Chen, Biyu;
Chen, Min;
Qian, Zhen;
Zhang, Haoran;
Zhang, Xiaohu;
Yang, Jinxin;
Santi, Paolo;
Ratti, Carlo;
Li, Wenting;
Yan, Jinyue.
(2023)
GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition.
Advances in Applied Energy.
volum 10.
Academic literature review
-
Fan, Hongchao;
Kong, Gefei;
Yang, Anran.
(2022)
Current status and prospects of research for volunteered geographic information.
Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica.
volum 51 (7).
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.
volum 108.
Academic article
-
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).
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.
volum 15 (1).
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
-
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.
volum 116.
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.
volum 10.
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.
volum 37 (179).
Academic article
-
Ding, Xuan;
Fan, Hongchao;
Gong, Jianya.
(2021)
Towards generating network of bikeways from Mapillary data.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.
volum 88.
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
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).
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.
volum 10 (5).
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.
volum 59 (12).
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
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).
Academic article
-
Li, Songnian;
Wachowicz, Monica;
Fan, Hongchao.
(2021)
Analytics of big geosocial media and crowdsourced data.
Big Earth Data.
volum 1 (1).
Editorial
-
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).
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 (Print).
volum 22 (4).
Editorial
-
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).
Academic article
-
Zhang, Chaoquan;
Fan, Hongchao;
Li, Wanzhi.
(2021)
Automated Detecting and Placing Road Objects from Street-level Images.
Computational Urban Science.
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
-
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.
Academic literature review
-
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.
Academic article
-
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.
Academic article
-
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.
Academic article
-
Wang, Yuefeng;
Fan, Hongchao;
Zhou, Guoqing.
(2020)
Reconstructing facade semantic models using hierarchical topological graphs.
Transactions on GIS.
volum 24.
Academic article
Teaching
Courses
Media
2020
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Academic lectureFan, Hongchao. (2020) Exploring urban mobility from crowdsourcing geoinformation data. Norway-Singapore Science Week 2020 . Innovation Norway; online. 2020-10-26 - 2020-11-06.