Background

From 1994 to 2000 Markus Gerke studied Geodetic Sciences at the Leibniz University of Hannover, and right afterwards he started to work as scientific collaborateur at the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation (IPI) at the same University. He finished his PhD in June 2006, the topic is quality assessment of road databases using remote sensing imagery. In April 2007 he joined the EOS department as an Assistant Professor for image sequence analysis. His focus is on the capture of geometric and semantic information from images and image sequences.

In 2007 he received the Carl-Pulfrich-Award together with Dr. Sönke Müller (Leibniz University of Hannover), and Dr. Andreas Busch (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, BKG, Frankfurt) for the work on image-based verification and update of geospatial data.

Activities in education

The duties in education cover core Photogrammetry and 3D modeling. In topographic mapping he concentrates on (automatic) feature extraction and change detection.

Activities in research

Within the broad topic "image sequence analysis" the current focus is on geometric and semantic information extraction from airborne image sequences.

• See the research projects in my group.

Publications

ISI Journal Articles

Alsadik, B.S., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2013) Automated camera network design for 3D modeling of cultural heritage objects. In: Journal of Cultural Heritage, (2013)IN PRESS, 12 p. Full text | Full text

Xiao, J., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2012) Building extraction from oblique airborne imagery based on robust facade detection. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 68 (2012) pp. 56-68. Full text | Full text

Nyaruhuma, A.P., Gerke, M., Vosselman, G. and Mtalo, E.G. (2012) Verification of 2D building outlines using oblique airborne images. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 71 (2012) pp. 62-75. Full text | Full text

Gerke, M. and Kerle, N. (2011) Automatic structural seismic damage assessment with airborne oblique pictometry imagery. In: PE&RS = Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 77 (2011)9 pp. 885-898. Full text

Gerke, M. (2011) Using horizontal and vertical building structure to constrain indirect sensor orientation. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 66 (2011)3 pp. 307-316. Full text | Full text

Koller, M., Butenuth, M. and Gerke, M. (2010) Automatic road - tracking in airborne image sequences. In: Photogrammetrie Fernerkundung Geoinformation (PFG), (2010)5, pp. 327-338. Full text

Tian, Y., Gerke, M., Vosselman, G. and ... [et al.] (2010) Knowledge - based building reconstruction from terrestrial video sequences. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 65 (2010)4 pp. 395-408. Full text | Full text

Gerke, M. and Heipke, C. (2008) Image - based quality assessment of road databases. In: International journal of geographical information science : IJGIS, 22 (2008)8 pp. 871-894. Full text | Full text

Gerke, M. and ... [et al.] (2004) Graph - supported verification of road databases. In: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 58 (2004)3-4 pp. 152-165. Full text | Full text

Book Chapters

Gerke, M. (2011) Supervised classification of multiple view images in object space for seismic damage assessment. In: Photogrammetric image analysis : ISPRS conference, PIA 2011, Munich, Germany, 6-7 October 2011, proceedings : e-book / editor U. Stilla, , ... [et al.]. - Heidelberg : Springer, 2011. - 308 p. - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6952), ISBN: 978-3-642-24393-6. pp. 221-232. Full text | Full text

Yixiang Tian, Gerke, M., Vosselman, G. and Qing Zhu (2009) Automatic surface patch generation from a video image sequence. In: 3D Geo-Information Sciences : requirements, acquisition, modeling, analysis, visualization : proceedings of 3rd international workshop on 13-14 November 2008. / ed. by Jiyeong Lee and S. Zlatanova. Berlin : Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-3-540-87394-5. (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ) pp. 235-246. Full text | Full text

Heipke, C., Woodsford, P.A. and Gerke, M. (2008) Updating geospatial databases from images. In: Advances in photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences : 2008 ISPRS congress book / ed by Z.Li, J. Chen and E. Baltsavias. London : Taylor & Francis, 2008. (ISPRS book series ; 7) ISBN 978-0-415-47805-2. pp. 355-362. Full text

Straub, B.M., Gerke, M. and Pahl, M. (2003) Automatic mapping of settlement areas using a knowledge based image interpretation system. In: Computer Vision Systems, Third International Conference, ICVS 2003 : Austria, April 1-3, 2003, proceedings / ed. by J.L. Crowley et [al...]. Berlin : Springer, 2003. ISBN 978-3-54000921-4 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 2626). pp. 355-364. Full text

PhD Theses

Xiao, J., Vosselman, G. (Promotor) and Gerke, M. (assistant promotor)  (2013) Automatic building detection using oblique imagery. Enschede, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), 2013. ITC Dissertation 224, ISBN: 978-90-6164-353-1. Full text

Gerke, M. (2006) Automatic quality assessment of road databases using remotely sensed imagery. Hannover, Universitat Hannover, 2006. Deutsche Geodätische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften : Dissertationen : Reihe C. 599, Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten der Fachrichtung Geodäsie und Geoinformatik der Universität Hannover 261, ISBN: 3-7696-5038-7. Full text | Full text

Conference Proceedings (full papers)

Alsadik, B.S., Remondino, F., Menna, F., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2013) Robust extraction of image correspondences exploiting the image scene geometry and approximate camera orientation. In: ISPRS Archives Volume XL-5/W1 : Proceedings of 3D-ARCH 2013 : 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, 25-26 February 2013, Trento, Italy / ed by J. Boehm ... [et al]. pp. 1-7. Full text | Full text

Rottensteiner, F., Sohn, G., Jung, J., Gerke, M. and ... [et al.] (2012) The ISPRS benchmark on urban object classification and 3D building reconstruction. In: ISPRS 2012 Proceedings of the XXII ISPRS Congress : Imaging a Sustainable Future, 25 August - 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Peer reviewed Annals, Volume I-3, 2012 / ed. by M. Shortis, N. Paparoditis and C. Mallet. ISPRS, 2012. pp. 293-298. Full text | Full text

Alsadik, B.S., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2012) Optimal camera network design for 3D modeling of cultural heritage. In: ISPRS 2012 Proceedings of the XXII ISPRS Congress : Imaging a Sustainable Future, 25 August - 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Peer reviewed Annals, Volume I-3, 2012 / ed. by M. Shortis, N. Paparoditis, C. Mallet. ISPRS, 2012. pp. 7-12. Full text | Full text

Nyaruhuma, A.P., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2012) Verification of 3D Building Models using Mutual Information in Airborne Oblique Images. In: ISPRS 2012 Proceedings of the XXII ISPRS Congress : Imaging a Sustainable Future, 25 August - 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Peer reviewed Annals, Volume I-3, 2012 / ed. by M. Shortis, N. Paparoditis and C. Mallet. ISPRS, 2012. pp. 275-280. Full text | Full text

Panday, U.S. and Gerke, M. (2011) Fitting of parametric building models to oblique aerial images + powerpoint. In: ISPRS Hannover workshop 2011 : high - resolution earth imaging for geospatial information, 14-17 June 2011, Hannover, Germany / ed. by C. Heipke, ... [et al.] - : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2011. - (International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing : IAPRS : ISPRS ; XXXVIII-4/W19). 6 p., 20 slides. Full text | Full text | Full text

Gerke, M. and Kerle, N. (2011) Graph matching in 3D space for structural seismic damage assessment. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops : ICCV Workshops, 6-13 November 2011, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 204-211. Full text | Full text

Xiao, J., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2010) Automatic detection of buildings with rectangular flat roofs from multi - view oblique imagery. In: ISPRS 2010 : PCV 2010 - ISPRS Technical Commission III Symposium on Photogrammetry Computer Vision and Image Analysis, 1-3 September, Saint Mandé, France. Vol. XXXVIII Commission III, WG III/4 Part 3A and Part 3B. pp. 251-256. Full text | Full text

Nyaruhuma, A.P., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2010) Evidence of walls in oblique images for automatic verification of buildings. In: ISPRS Technical Commission III Symposium : PCV 2010 : Photogrammetry Computer Vision and Image Analysis, 1-3 September, Saint Mandé, France / ed. by N. Paparoditis, ... [et al.] (Vol. XXXVIII Commission III, WG III/4 Part 3B). pp. 263-268. Full text | Full text

Nyaruhuma, A.P., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2010) Line matching in oblique airborne images to support automatic verification of building outlines. In: Proceedings of the ASPRS 2010 annual conference : opportunities for emerging geospatial technologies, 26-30 April 2010, San Diego, California. 10 p. Full text

Gerke, M. (2009) Dense matching in high resolution oblique airborne images. In: CMRT09: Object extraction for 3D city models, road databases and traffic monitoring : concepts, algorithms and evaluation, Paris, 3-4 September 2009. / ed by U. Stilla, F. Rottensteiner and N. Paparoditis. ISPRS, 2009. pp 77-82. Full text | Full text

Xiao, J., Vosselman, G. and Gerke, M. (2009) Edge extraction from multi - view oblique images. In: Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on digital earth : Digital earth in action, 9-12 September 2009, Beijing China. Beijing : International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), 2009. p.10. Full text

Gerke, M. and Nyaruhuma, A.P. (2009) Incorporating scene constraints into the triangulation of airborne oblique images. In: ISPRS conference : High-Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information: ISPRS XXXVIII 1-4-7/WS, 2-5 June, 2009 Hannover, Germany. 6 p. Full text | Full text

Tian, Y., Zhu, Q., Gerke, M. and Vosselman, G. (2009) Knowledge - based topological reconstruction for building façade surface patches. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ISPRS International Workshop : 3D - ARCH 2009 : 3D virtual reconstruction and visualization of complex architectures, 25-28 February 2009, Trento, Italy / ed. by F. Remondino, S. El-Hakim and L. Gonzo (ISPRS - XXXVIII-5/W1). 6 p. Full text | Full text

Thapa, A., Pu, S. and Gerke, M. (2009) Semantic feature based registration of terrestrial point clouds. In: Proceedings of Laser scanning '09 : ISPRS Vol. 38 prt 3/W8, 1-2 September 2009, Paris, France. / ed. by. F. Bretar, M. Pierrot-Deseilligny and M.G. Vosselman. ISPRS, 2009. pp. 230-235. Full text | Full text

Yixiang Tian, Gerke, M., Vosselman, G. and Qing Zhu (2008) Automatic edge matching across an image sequence based on reliable points. In: ISPRS 2008 : Proceedings of the XXI congress : Silk road for information from imagery : the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 3-11 July, Beijing, China. Comm. III, ICWG III/V. Beijing : ISPRS, 2008. pp. 657-662. Full text | Full text

Gerke, M. (2008) Dense image matching in airborne video sequences. In: ISPRS 2008 : Proceedings of the XXI congress : Silk road for information from imagery : the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 3-11 July, Beijing, China. Comm. III, ICWG III/V. Beijing : ISPRS, 2008. pp. 639-644. Full text | Full text

Helmholz, P., Gerke, M. and Heipke, C. (2007) Automatic discrimination of farmland types using IKONOS imagery. In: ISPRS 2007 : Vol. XXXVI, pt 3. W49A and pt. 3. W49B : PIA07 : photogrammertric image analysis, September 19-21, 2007 München Germany. / ed. by U. Stilla ... [et al] München : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2007. pp. 81-86. Full text | Full text

Ziems, M., Gerke, M. and Heipke, C. (2007) Automatic road extraction from remote sensing imagery incorporating prior information and colour segmentation. In: ISPRS 2007 : Vol. XXXVI, pt 3. W49A and pt. 3. W49B : PIA07 : photogrammertric image analysis, September 19-21, 2007 München Germany. / ed. by U. Stilla ... [et al] München : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2007. pp. 141-147. Full text | Full text

Grote, A., Gerke, M. and Heipke, C. (2007) Segmentation based on normalized cuts for the detection of suburban roads in aerial imagery. In: Urban remote sensing joint event 2007 : URBAN 2007: 4th IEEE GRSS - ISPRS joint workshop on remote sensing and data fusion over urban areas + URS 2007: 6th international symposium of remote sensing of urban areas, 11-13 April 2007, Paris, France. IEEE, 2007. ISBN 1-4244-0712-5. 5 p. Full text

Scientific and Professional Publications

Maathuis, B.H.P. and Gerke, M. (2009) Digital elevation model extraction, processing and parameterization for hydrology : distance education. Enschede, ITC, 2009.

Gerke, M. (2008) Application of 3D measurements from images - ed. by J. Fryer, H. Mitchell and J. Chandler. Dunbeath : Wittles, 2007. ISBN 1-870325-69-9 : book review. In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation : JAG, 10 (2008)3 pp. 398. Full text | Full text

Heipke, C. (editor) , Jacobson, K. (editor) and Gerke, M. (editor)  (2007) ISPRS 2007 : Vol. XXXVI, pt 1 W 51 : High resolution earth imaging for geospatial information, Hannover Germany, May 29 - June 1, 2007. Hannover, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2007. Full text

Presentations

Gerke, M. (2013) Current developments in airborne oblique imaging : systems and automated interpretation of complex buildings : keynote : powerpoint. Presented at: 3D-ARCH 2013, 5th International Workshop, 25-26 February 2013, Trento, Italy. 67 slides. Full text

Gerke, M. (2012) UAV - photogrammetry from an enduser's perspective : powerpoint. Presented at: Challenges and opportunities of new unmanned airborne systems UAS, Workshop at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, 13-14 September 2012. 42 slides. Full text

Gerke, M. and Kerle, N. (2010) Use of oblique airborne images for automatic structural damage assessment : abstract + powerpoint. Presented at the 8th International Workshop on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management, 30 September-1 October 2010, Tokyo, Japan. 2 p. + 25 slides. Full text | Full text | Full text | Full text