Associate Professor
Computer Science, Hunter College
Modeling Cities by Integrating 3-D and 2-D Data
Modeling Cities by Integrating 3-D and 2-D Data is a three-year, $475,000 NSF award involving extreme mapping. Principal investigator Professor Stamos seeks to develop a unique software application that would allow users to immediately visualize the graphic details of an object within an urban scene. His project’s purpose is to move past the low level, complex point cloud representation (three dimensional coordinates) and develop high level representations that automatically classify specific features and symmetry in a scene. These representations can then be used for simulating designs by urban planners, architects, and other industries. “We want to increase the modeling scale by devising algorithms and technologies that sense billions of points in a city scale and create a high level representation.”