Chair holder
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Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ferdinand Maiwald
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Career
| since 01/2025 | Director of the Geodetic Institute |
| since 01/2025 | Program coordinator B.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation & M.Sc. Geodesy |
| since 06/2024 | Executive Board DVW Sachsen e.V. |
| since 04/2024 | Professor for Optical 3D-Metrology at the TU Dresden |
| 10/2023 - 03/2024 | Research Associate and lecturer at the Chair of Photogrammetry at TU Dresden |
| 01/2022 - 10/2023 | Research Associate - Head of the 3D/4D research focus at the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities at FSU Jena |
| 10/2022 | PhD thesis on the topic: A window to the past through modern urban environments - Developing a photogrammetric workflow for the orientation parameter estimation of historical images (Qucosa) |
| 01/2020 - 04/2022 | Research Associate and team leader in the project Kulturerbe4D at the Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities at FSU Jena |
| 09/2019 - 07/2021 | Research Associate in the VirtEx project for the production of high-resolution 3D scans and deformation analysis of icons at the Chair of Photogrammetry at TU Dresden |
| 12/2016 - 04/2021 | Research Associate (focus on photogrammetry) in the junior research group HistStadt4D at the Media Center of TU Dresden |
| 10/2011 - 11/2016 | B.Sc. Geodesy and Geoinformation and M.Sc. Geodesy at TU Dresden |
Scientific awards
| 02/2023 | Top Cited Article in The Photogrammetric Record, 2021 - 2022, Wiley |
| 09/2022 | EH Thompson Award for best paper in The Photogrammetric Record 2021 (British Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) |
| 05/2019 | Best Paper Award - GEORES2019, Milan, Italy |
Scientific engagement
- Participation in the Working Group 3D/4D of the Time Machine Organization
- Participant of the Working Group II/8 of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
- Member of the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (DGPF)
Publications on
47 Entries
2026
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Comparative Accuracy Assessment of two Low-Cost Devices for Underwater Structure-from-Motion 3D Reconstruction, 23 Jul 2026, p. 979-987, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to conferences > Paper
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Improving handheld Laser Scanning Point Cloud Quality in Forests via RTK-GNSS integrated SLAM, 23 Jul 2026, ISPRS Congress 2026 “From Imagery to Understanding”, Commission II. Vol. 49. p. 261-269, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Assessing Trajectory Accuracy of the CHCNAV RS10 Handheld Laser Scanner, 22 Jul 2026, ISPRS Congress 2026 “From Imagery to Understanding”, Commission I. Vol. 49. p. 129-136, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Multi-Source Fusion of Roof Skeletons, LiDAR and Street-View Imagery for Semi-Automated LoD-2 Building Modelling, 3 Jul 2026, In: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 11, 2-2026, p. 127-135, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Conference article
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Multi-stage mask-aware Depth Enhancement for RGB-IR-stereo Fusion on historic Timber Surfaces, 3 Jul 2026, In: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 11, 1-2026, p. 217-226, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Conference article
2025
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Towards LOD-2 Building Reconstruction: Leveraging Segmentation and Roof Shape Extraction Methods from VHR Imagery, 3 Oct 2025, 30th CIPA Symposium “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data-driven Heritage Conservation”, 25–29 August 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Shim, H., Choi, S., Lee, W., Rii, H. & Kim, S. (eds.).p. 1251–1256, 6 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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An End-to-End AI Pipeline for Wood Knot Detection to Enhance Structural Assessment in Historic Timber Structures, 23 Sep 2025, 30th CIPA Symposium “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data-driven Heritage Conservation”, 25–29 August 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Vol. X-M-2-2025. p. 267-274, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Coloring the Past: Neural Historical Monuments Reconstruction from Archival Photography, 2025, Pattern Recognition: 46th DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2024, Munich, Germany, September 10–13, 2024, Proceedings, Part II. Cremers, D., Lähner, Z., Moeller, M., Nießner, M., Ommer, B. & Triebel, R. (eds.).p. 55–71, 17 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
2024
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Enhancing the accuracy of the Leica Nova TS60 total station: A multi-purpose camera-based optical measurement system, 13 Dec 2024, ISPRS TC II Optical 3D Metrology (O3DM). Brescia, Italy, p. 153–160, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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A Digital 4D Information System on the World Scale: Research Challenges, Approaches, and Preliminary Results, 28 Feb 2024, In: Applied Sciences. 14 (2024), 5, 48 p., 1992Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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