News
- Nikolau Kalischek: "Our project to map cocoa planting in Western Africa has been featured in the media": Zürcher Zeitung: Schokolade aus abgeholzten Wäldern: jede achte Tafel betroffen. The Guardian: external pageCocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study findscall_made
- Nando Metzger's and Rodrigo Caye Daudt's project on 20 minutes French edition, December 12, 2022: external pageUn programme des EPF de Lausanne et Zurich au service de l'humanitairecall_made
- Nando Metzger's and Rodrigo Caye Daudt's project on the EPFL-News site: external pageAI enables more effective humanitarian actioncall_made
- We have been featured in an ETH/EPFL post on Humanitarian Action Challenge.
- We have been granted a new project on "Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts”, within the Engineering Humanitarian Aid Initiative between ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne and the Red Cross (ICRC). Detailed information can be found here.
- Jan D. Wegner has been selected for the WEF Young Scientist Class 2020, as one of 25 researchers world-wide!
ETH announcement ; external pageWEF press releasecall_made
- Konrad Schindler is the winner of the 2020 external pageISPRS Frederick J. Doyle Awardcall_made
- We have been awarded a new Innosuisse Project "PCobject - Automatic Object Recognition in Geospatial Point Clouds" together with Hexagon Technology Center, Heerbrugg for one full-time PhD and one part-time PostDoc for 24 months (March 2020)
- Audrey Richard, Konrad Schindler - Best Paper Honourable Mention for their work on "Learned Multi-View Texture Super-Resolution at the International Conference for 3D Vision (3DV), 2019 (with Ian Cherabier, Martin R. Oswald, Vagia Tsiminaki, Marc Pollefeys)
- Priyanka Chaudhary, Stefano D'Aronco, Jan D. Wegner - Best Paper Award for their paper "Floodwater Level Estimation from Social Media Images" at ISPRS Geospatial Week, 2019 (with Matthew Moy de Vitry, Joao Paulo Leitao)
- Jan D. Wegner, Nico Lang, Konrad Schindler - external pageThe U.V. Helava Awardcall_made for best paper 2018 in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (with Steve Branson, David Hall, Pietro Perona)
- Second Place Award in the NTIRE 2018 Challenge for our work on Spectral Reconstruction from RGB Images, hosted in Salt Lake City at CVPR 2018
- 06/2018: BEST PAPER AWARD for our work on external page"Supervised outlier detection in large-scale MVS point clouds for 3D city modeling applications"call_made at the ISPRS mid-term Symposium
- 02/2018: Konrad Schindler is Program Co-Chair of The Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) external pagehttp://accv2018.netcall_made
ACCV is a leading international conference in the area of computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, held roughly biannually since 1993.
- 10/2017: Two new PhD projects on vegetation monitoring from space funded by industry
- 07/2017: proceedings of two ICCV papers published (PDF I); (PDF II)
- 06/2017: Doctoral Fellowship awarded to Nadine Rüegg “People in Context", Max Plank – ETH Center for Learning Systems, congrats!
- 06/2017: proceedings of one BMVC paper published (PDF)