Elisavet Konstantina Stathopoulou

Research Experience

• 2018 - : Researcher, 3D Optical Metrology Unit (3DOM), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).

• 2017 - 2018: Senior Fellow, Visual Geometry and Modelling Lab (VGM), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).

  • • 3D reconstruction of indoor environments with a robotic arm (SLAM).

    • benchmarking using laser scanning.

• 2016 - 2017: Research and teaching assistant, Laboratory of Photogrammetry, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

  • • Rehabilitation of the Holy Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (photogrammetry and laser scanning data fusion).

• 2014 - 2016: Marie Curie Fellow - Early Stage Researcher, ITN-DCH: Initial Training Network of Digital Cultural Heritage (FP7), Laboratory of Photogrammetry, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

  • • 2D and 3D data acquisition and analysis in cultural heritage (aerial and terrestrial).

    • internships within MC fellowship: 

      • ArcTron3D GmbH, Altenthann, Germany

      • 3DOM, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy

      • MAP, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marseilles, France

      • Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp), University of Stuttgart, Germany

• 2012 - 2013: Student research assistant, Chair of Adjustment Theory, Technische Universität (TU) Berlin.

  • • Adjustment calculation in laser scanning.

Education

• Ph.D.: “Integrating scene priors in 3D reconstruction”, NTUA (2022).

• MSc. Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität (TU) Berlin (2011 - 2014).

  • • major: computer vision and remote sensing.

• MEng. Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2005 - 2011).

  • • major: photogrammetry and cartography.

Current Research Areas and Interests

• Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo algorithms and applications

• 2D/3D semantic and instance segmentation 

• depth estimation of challenging areas in Multi-View Stereo  scenarios

• monocular depth estimation

• geospatial and cultural heritage data fusion (LiDaR and imagery)

• feature detection and description for image matching and localization

• georeferencing of aerial historic images and change detection

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping  (SLAM)

Projects

• Urban Periscope, (Portal for hERItage buildingS integration into the COntemPorary built Environment, Cyprus RF, 2019-2021)

• Semantic photogrammetry

• Automation in photogrammetric reconstruction

• UAV LiDaR and image data fusion  (ISPRS Scientific initiative, 2021)

• semantic segmentation of aerial and satellite images using deep learning

• PhotoMatch - Development of an open source multi-view and multimodal feature marching tool for photogrammetric applications (ISPRS Scientific Initiative, 2019)

• Geoprocessing of historic aerial images

Editorial boards

• International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-2/W3 (2017).

• International Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-2/W6 (2019).

Reviewer

• International Journals: 

  • Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE )

  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ElServier)

  • Geo-spatial Information Science (Taylor and Francis)

  • Remote Sensing, ISPRS International Journal of Geoinformation, Sensors,  Drones, Heritage (MDPI)

• Conference Proceedings: 

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021, 2022

  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021 

  • ISPRS Annals 2020,2021, 2022

  • ISPRS Archives 2020, 2021, 2022.

Organizing Committee

• ISPRS - CIPA 7th International Workshop 3D ARCH (2017) - 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures and Environments.

Invited Talks

• PointCab GmbH  webinar: Latest developments on photogrammetric 3D reconstruction, (May 2021).

Scholarships and Awards

2022: Oustanding reviewer in CVPR 2022

2011-2013: Excellence scholarship for the complete MSc. studies' circle, State Scholarship Foundation of Greece.

2010: “D. Thomaidis” (NTUA) award for published article in an international conference as undergraduate student. 

Professional proficiency

• English (C2, University of Michingan)

• Italian (C1, Università per stanieri di Perugia)

• Spanish (B2, Instituto Cervantes)

• German (B1, Goethe Institut)

• Greek (native)