Rate My Professor George Vosselman

George Vosselman is a Full Professor of Geo-Information Extraction with Sensor Systems at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente. Born in 1963, he graduated with honours in Geodetic Engineering from Delft University of Technology in 1986 and obtained his PhD with honours from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany, in 1991. Early in his career, he worked at the Institute of Photogrammetry at the University of Stuttgart until 1992 and served as a visiting scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 2004, he held the position of Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Delft University of Technology, where he also served as Programme Director for BSc and MSc studies in Geodetic Engineering from 1999 to 2002. In 2004, he joined ITC, now part of the University of Twente, and has since led the Department of Earth Observation Science as Head from 2012 to 2018 and from 2023 to 2025. Additionally, he chaired the ITC Examination Board from 2015 to 2023 and mentors the Algorithms and Software AI specialisation in the Robotics Master's programme.

Vosselman's research specializations include photogrammetry, laser scanning, and the extraction of spatial and semantic information from images and point clouds, frequently using deep learning techniques for applications such as 3D building and road modelling, quality analysis of laser altimetry data, and segmentation and classification of point clouds. He has authored or co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including highly cited works such as 'Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning' (2010, co-edited with H.G. Maas), 'Experimental comparison of filter algorithms for bare-Earth extraction from airborne laser scanning point clouds' (2004, with G. Sithole), 'Segmentation of point clouds using smoothness constraint' (2006, with T. Rabbani and F. van den Heuvel), and 'Slope based filtering of laser altimetry data' (2000). His influence extends to software development for point cloud processing transferred to companies, creation of datasets like UAVid and UAVPal, and leadership in ISPRS Working Groups on point cloud processing. Vosselman has received the Hansa Luftbild Award (1993), ISPRS Otto von Gruber Award (2000), Schwidefsky Medal (2012), Karl Kraus Medal (2012, shared with Hans-Gerd Maas), ASPRS Photogrammetric Fairchild Award (2015), and was elected ISPRS Fellow in 2020. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2005-2012) and ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2021-2025).