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Overview

Stephan Winter is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields of study, with significant contributions to engineering, social sciences, and computer science. Within these areas, their work particularly addresses subfields such as transportation, geography, planning and development, building and construction, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Winter's research topics focus on geographic information systems studies, human mobility and location-based analysis, spatial cognition and navigation, data management and algorithms, urban transport and accessibility, 3D surveying and cultural heritage, and traffic prediction and management techniques.

Notable recent publications by Winter include:

  • Spatial Causality: A Systematic Review on Spatial Causal Inference (2021), published in Geographical Analysis
  • Translating Place-Related Questions to GeoSPARQL Queries (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
  • A Recurrent Deep Network for Estimating the Pose of Real Indoor Images from Synthetic Image Sequences (2020), published in Sensors
  • Neural factoid geospatial question answering (2021), published in Journal of Spatial Information Science
  • Origin-Destination Flow Estimation from Link Count Data Only (2020), published in Sensors

Winter's frequent co-authors include Martin Tomko, with 26 joint publications; Kourosh Khoshelham, with 11; Mark Stevenson, with 7; Ehsan Hamzei, with 6; and Sajjad Einizinab, with 6.

Their work appears regularly in specific publication venues, notably the Journal of Spatial Information Science (7 publications), Computers Environment and Urban Systems (4 publications), Transactions in GIS (4 publications), International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (3 publications), and Sensors (2 publications).

Winter has also contributed to book publications, including a 2021 title published by the University of Melbourne, titled Smart Parking in Fast-Growing Cities. Challenges and Solutions.

Best Publications

  • Spatial Information Theory

    Stephan Winter;Matt Duckham;Lars Kulik;Ben Kuipers

  • Enriching Wayfinding Instructions with Local Landmarks

    Martin Raubal;Stephan Winter

  • Applying Organizational Routines in understanding organizational change

    Markus Becker;Nathalie Lazaric;Richard Nelson;Sidney G. Winter

  • Geospatial Big Data Handling Theory and Methods: A Review and Research Challenges

    Songnian Li;Suzana Dragicevic;Francesc Antón Castro;Monika Sester

  • Structural salience of landmarks for route directions

    Alexander Klippel;Stephan Winter

  • Geospatial Big Data Handling Theory and Methods: A Review and Research Challenges

    S. Li;S. Dragicevic;F. Anton;M. Sester

  • Modeling Costs of Turns in Route Planning

    Stephan Winter

  • Including landmarks in routing instructions

    Matt Duckham;Stephan Winter;Michelle Robinson

  • Selection of Salient Features for Route Directions

    Clemens Nothegger;Stephan Winter;Martin Raubal

  • A conceptualization of vehicle platoons and platoon operations

    Santa Maiti;Stephan Winter;Lars Kulik

  • Experiential Hierarchies of Streets

    Martin Tomko;Stephan Winter;Christophe Claramunt

  • Route Adaptive Selection of Salient Features

    Stephan Winter

  • Ontology and Semantic Interoperability

    Thomas Bittner;Maureen Donnelly;Stephan Winter

  • Ontology: buzzword or paradigm shift in GI science?

    Stephan Winter

  • Locating place names from place descriptions

    Maria Vasardani;Stephan Winter;Kai-Florian Richter

  • Ad Hoc Shared-Ride Trip Planning by Mobile Geosensor Networks

    Stephan Winter;Silvia Nittel

  • Landmark hierarchies in context

    Stephan Winter;Martin Tomko;Birgit Elias;Monika Sester

  • Directed movements in probabilistic time geography

    Stephan Winter;Zhang-Cai Yin

  • You-Are-Here Maps in Emergencies - The Danger of Getting Lost

    Alexander Klippel;Christian Freksa;Stephan Winter

  • BIM-PoseNet: Indoor camera localisation using a 3D indoor model and deep learning from synthetic images

    Debaditya Acharya;Kourosh Khoshelham;Stephan Winter

  • Topology in Raster and Vector Representation

    Stephan Winter;Andrew U. Frank

  • Landmarks: A Thought Experiment

    Kai-Florian Richter;Stephan Winter

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Sester
Monika Sester University of Hannover
Martin Raubal
Martin Raubal ETH Zurich
Kourosh Khoshelham
Kourosh Khoshelham University of Melbourne
Ouri Wolfson
Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago
Russell G. Thompson
Russell G. Thompson University of Melbourne
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Lars Kulik
Lars Kulik University of Melbourne
Werner Kuhn
Werner Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara
Christian Freksa
Christian Freksa University of Bremen

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