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Overview

Hugo Ledoux is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the domain of 3D modeling and geospatial applications. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, including engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Within these areas, they have focused particularly on building and construction, environmental engineering, geochemistry and petrology, geology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their academic output includes journal articles and book chapters, with notable publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, and The Journal of Open Source Software.

Recent papers featuring their work include:

  • The Hessigheim 3D (H3D) benchmark on semantic segmentation of high-resolution 3D point clouds and textured meshes from UAV LiDAR and Multi-View-Stereo, 2021, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • 3dfier: automatic reconstruction of 3D city models, 2021, The Journal of Open Source Software
  • Reconstructing compact building models from point clouds using deep implicit fields, 2022, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Structure-aware Building Mesh Polygonization, 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • DeltaDTM: A global coastal digital terrain model, 2024, Scientific Data

Ledoux's frequent coauthors include:

  • Ravi Peters
  • Jantien Stoter
  • Liangliang Nan
  • Ken Arroyo Ohori
  • Balázs Dukai

Their principal research topics cover:

  • 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Automated Road and Building Extraction

They have authored multiple editions of the book Computational Modelling of Terrains, published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research across the years 2020 to 2022.

Best Publications

  • Applications of 3D City Models: State of the Art Review

    Filip Biljecki;Jantien E. Stoter;Hugo Ledoux;Sisi Zlatanova

  • An improved LOD specification for 3D building models

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien E. Stoter

  • Formalisation of the level of detail in 3D city modelling

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien E. Stoter;Junqiao Zhao;Junqiao Zhao

  • Transportation mode-based segmentation and classification of movement trajectories

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Peter van Oosterom

  • The Hessigheim 3D (H3D) benchmark on semantic segmentation of high-resolution 3D point clouds and textured meshes from UAV LiDAR and Multi-View-Stereo

    Michael Kölle;Dominik Laupheimer;Stefan Schmohl;Norbert Haala

  • Generating 3D city models without elevation data

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien E. Stoter

  • Automatic conversion of IFC datasets to geometrically and semantically correct CityGML LOD3 buildings

    Sjors Donkers;Hugo Ledoux;Junqiao Zhao;Jantien E. Stoter

  • An Efficient Natural Neighbour Interpolation Algorithm for Geoscientific Modelling

    Hugo Ledoux;Christopher M. Gold

  • Topologically consistent 3D city models obtained by extrusion

    Hugo Ledoux;Martijn Meijers

  • AdTree: Accurate, Detailed, and Automatic Modelling of Laser-Scanned Trees

    Shenglan Du;Roderik Lindenbergh;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien E. Stoter

  • Processing BIM and GIS Models in Practice: Experiences and Recommendations from a GeoBIM Project in The Netherlands

    Ken Arroyo Ohori;Abdoulaye A. Diakité;Thomas Krijnen;Hugo Ledoux

  • The variants of an LOD of a 3D building model and their influence on spatial analyses

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien Stoter;George Vosselman

  • Propagation of positional error in 3D GIS: estimation of the solar irradiation of building roofs

    Filip Biljecki;Gerard B. M. Heuvelink;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien Stoter

  • CityJSON: a compact and easy-to-use encoding of the CityGML data model.

    Hugo Ledoux;Ken Arroyo Ohori;Kavisha Kumar;Balázs Dukai

  • Modelling and analysing 3D buildings with a primal/dual data structure

    Pawel Boguslawski;Christopher M. Gold;Hugo Ledoux

  • On the Validation of Solids Represented with the International Standards for Geographic Information

    Hugo Ledoux

  • GENERATION OF MULTI-LOD 3D CITY MODELS IN CITYGML WITH THE PROCEDURAL MODELLING ENGINE RANDOM3DCITY

    Filip Biljecki;Hugo Ledoux;Jantien Stoter

  • Modelling three-dimensional geoscientific fields with the Voronoi diagram and its dual

    H. Ledoux;C. M. Gold

  • Modelling three-dimensional fields in geoscience with the Voronoi diagram and its dual

    Hugo Ledoux

  • val3dity: validation of 3D GIS primitives according to the international standards

    Hugo Ledoux

  • CityJSON: a compact and easy-to-use encoding of the CityGML data model

    Hugo Ledoux;Ken Arroyo Ohori;Kavisha Kumar;Balázs Dukai

Frequent Co-Authors

Jantien Stoter
Jantien Stoter Delft University of Technology
Filip Biljecki
Filip Biljecki National University of Singapore
George Vosselman
George Vosselman University of Twente
Jan Dirk Wegner
Jan Dirk Wegner University of Zurich
Franz Rottensteiner
Franz Rottensteiner University of Hannover
Sisi Zlatanova
Sisi Zlatanova University of New South Wales
Helena Mitasova
Helena Mitasova North Carolina State University
Peter van Oosterom
Peter van Oosterom Delft University of Technology

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