Research areas

The main task of optical 3D-metrology is sensor integration and evaluation to solve a wide range of research questions. Due to the constant development of new imaging sensor technologies and increasingly efficient evaluation methods, this field of research will become even more important in the future. This is made possible above all by the fact that optical 3D-metrology serve a broad spectrum. They can handle measuring tasks on a large and small scale, with high precision or with adapted accuracy, as well as with individual or combined measuring instruments. The diverse measurement methods offer the possibility of realizing interdisciplinary issues, whereby data evaluation is carried out using algorithmic processes and artificial intelligence methods. Neural networks are becoming essential in order to extract increasingly reliable semantic information from 2D/3D data. The results obtained are evaluated using stochastic and geodetic methods. Due to the non-tactile aspect of optical methods, the Chair's fields of application are very diverse and range from component analysis, computer tomography and autonomous driving to medical applications. We focus in particular on structural research. You can find our fields of research here.