Arpad Somogyi

Budapest University of Technology and Economics · Department of Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics

Automatic road segmentation from three-dimensional point cloud data has gained increasing interest recently. However, it is still challenging to do this task automatically due to the wide variations of roads and complex environments, especially in non-urban areas. This research proposed a comprehensive approach for using shallow neural networks to...

During their life cycle, structures are affected by numerous impacts, from design phase to operation. Some of these could occur at the start of the production, while others during the installation, operation, or renovation. It is important to carry out an inspection throughout the lifecycle of the structure by measuring designated points, to ensure...

A three-dimensional road point cloud is not only useful for civil engineers (road rehabilitation, road condition assessment) but can also be useful for vehicle engineers (autonomous vehicle driving scenario, vehicle dynamics simulation). Currently, there are several scanning techniques can be used to obtain these point clouds, such as terrestrial l...

When assessing the health of steel structures, capturing, and modelling the geometry is especially important. Point cloud-based technologies have special requirements; previous studies revealed certain challenges that are to be resolved. In this paper, we aimed to develop a method to investigate the effects that the surface reflectance, incidence a...

With the recent rapid advances in technology, the use of 3D scanning systems in the engineering world has become more and more prevalent thanks to the ease of use, the improved data collection process, and the increase in the accuracy of the acquired data. During the rebuilding of the Tisza bridge on the M4 motorway, the contractor discovered that...

Digital twins of road surfaces support multiple engineering applications. Remote sensing technologies provide information from the entire surface of the pavement by high accuracy point clouds. Pavement errors and differences from designed geometry can be detected and assessed using such datasets, while OpenCRG models derived from point clouds suppo...

Terrestrial laser scanning is an effective technology to capture high density and accurate point clouds about objects with complex geometry. Ship industry requires 3D hull models for multiple reverse engineering purposes; renovation, as-built analysis, simulations etc. The paper discusses how terrestrial laser scanning can be applied to capture shi...

There are multiple emerging technologies, devices and integrated equipment to support indoor mapping. The two main categories are the wearable/portable (e.g. hand-held or backpack devices) and the trolley based devices. The most widely used sensors of the integrated systems are the laser scanners (usually profile scanners), camera(s) and the IMU un...

A 3D surface model of an active limestone quarry and a vegetation-covered plateau was created using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technique in combination with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). The aim of the research was to identify major fault zones that dissect the inaccessible quarry faces and to prepare a model that shows the location of these...

The development of the autonomous vehicles has been accelerated in the last years. The fully automated control of these vehicles requires a robust and reliable localization technique. Unfortunately, the GNSS methodology isn’t universally available, it has strong limitation and accuracy failures in tunnels or urban canyons. The alternative localizat...

Steep, hardly accessible cliffs of rhyolite tuff in NE Hungary are prone to rockfalls, endangering visitors of a castle. Remote sensing techniques were employed to obtain data on terrain morphology and to provide slope geometry for assessing the stability of these rock walls. A RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) was used to collect images whic...

Architects ordered the complex building survey of the Royal Castle of Esztergom and generating architectural products like floor plans, cross sections and orthoviews of the walls to support reconstruction works. Due to certain specialities of the castle like extension of the walls (both vertical and horizontal), fragmented and irregular surfaces, d...

Our aim is to support the work of the Department of Engineering Geology and Geotechnics (BUTE) in the Sárbogárd open field mine by cutting edge data acquisition technics. During the conventional geology examination, we laser scanned and UAV photographed the previously selected and marked rock wall segment. After pre-processing the raw data, the pri...

Maps are constantly developing, also, the newly defined High Definition (HD) maps increase the map content remarkably. They are based on three-dimensional survey, like laser scanning, and then stored in a fully new structured way to be able to support modern-day vehicles. Beyond the traditional lane based map content, they contain information about...

Point cloud based modeling has become widely used in recent years in the engineering practice. This paper presents several point clouds produced by different software packages using pixel based multi view spatial reconstruction. The purpose of the investigation is to give statistical quality measures beyond the apparent differences between the poin...

High Definition (HD) maps are newly defined maps with remarkably extended content. These maps are based on 3-dimensional surveys of the environment and are stored in a structured way to fully support today's vehicles. The basic map content focuses not only on the lanes, but also on the road neighborhood. The primary information is therefore the con...

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The paper focuses on the 3D data acquisition technologiesthat support capturing the geometry of medieval architecturalfragmented stones. High-resolution models of such fragmentsenable the analysis of profile shapes as well as the markinglines and curves left by the instruments of stonemasons, andtherefore, indirectly, identifying connections betwee...

Low strength rhyolite tuff forms steep cliffs in NE Hungary. A multi-dimensional approach including field analysis and laboratory tests was conducted to understand the mechanical properties of the tuff and to measure discontinuity surfaces. With the help of RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) and TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning), a digital terr...

Changes in building rules and regulations can broaden the application field of BIM procedures (NBS National Survey, 2016). First, new constructions should by supported by BIM, but the technology can be used effectively in case of some existing buildings, too. Terrestrial laser scanning is a powerful tool to acquire detailed data from existing build...

Autonomous vehicles are considered as the next major milestone in the history of transportation. Current vehicles are widely equipped with satellite-based positioning units and further sensors: cameras, laser scanner, and radar-based sensors. These new technologies are capable of not only detecting other vehicles, pedestrians or road obstacles, but...

The photogrammetric object reconstruction seems to find its modern Holy Grail in the pixel-based technology. The great offer of sophisticated software packages prove that the formerly developed computer vision and photogrammetric functions can efficiently be combined to support an accurate object reconstruction. In the paper the general theory and...

Environmental, engineering and industrial modelling of natural features (e.g. trees) and man-made features (e.g. pipelines) requires some form of fitting of geometrical objects such as cylinders, which is commonly undertaken using a least-squares method that—in order to get optimal estimation—assumes normal Gaussian distribution. In the presence of...

Steep, and hardly accessible jointed rhyolite tuff cliff faces surround a Castle in NE-Hungary, at village of Sirok. The assessment of cliff stability required the recording of cliff geometry. Traditional surveying was not possible therefore cliff faces were 3D modelled by GNSS supported terrestrial laser scanner and UAV. The onsite engineering geo...

Computer tomography (CT) is an excellent technique for obtaining accurate 3D information about the human body. It allows to visualize the organs, bones and blood vessels, furthermore it enables to diagnose anomalies and diseases. Its spatial reconstruction capability supports other interesting applications, such as inspecting different, even valuab...

Web-based photo albums that support organizing and viewing the users’ images are widely used. These services provide a convenient solution for storing, editing and sharing images. In many cases, the users attach geotags to the images in order to enable using them e.g. in location based applications on social networks. Our paper discusses a procedu...

Computer tomography (CT) is an excellent technique for obtaining accurate 3D information about the human body. It allows to visualize the organs, bones and blood vessels, furthermore it enables to diagnose anomalies and diseases. Its spatial reconstruction capability supports other interesting applications, such as inspecting different, even valuab...

Web-based photo albums that support organizing and viewing the users’ images are widely used. These services provide a convenient solution for storing, editing and sharing images. In many cases, the users attach geotags to the images in order to enable using them e.g. in location based applications on social networks. Our paper discusses a proced...

Pedestrian flow is much less regulated and controlled compared to vehicle traffic. Estimating flow parameters would support many safety, security or commercial applications. Current paper discusses a method that enables acquiring information on pedestrian movements without disturbing and changing their motion. Profile laser scanner and depth camera...

Pedestrian flow is much less regulated and controlled compared to vehicle traffic. Estimating flow parameters would support many safety, security or commercial applications. Current paper discusses a method that enables acquiring information on pedestrian movements without disturbing and changing their motion. Profile laser scanner and depth camera...

Siroki várhegyet alkotó riolittufa állékonysági vizsgálatát mutatja be a cikk, kiemelve a térinformatika és a mérnökgeológia együttes alkalmazását. A sziklalejtő felmérésére az erősen tagolt domborzat miatt és a nehéz megközelíthetőség miatt GNSS támogatású földi lézerszkennelés és drónos légifényképezést alkalmaztunk. Az így kapott térinformatikai...

A new robust parameter estimation method taking into account the real model error distribution is presented for large size of noisy data points. Maximum likelihood technique is employed to compute the model parameters assuming that the distribution of the model errors is a Gaussian mixture corresponding to the inlier and outlier data points. The ma...