Current Projects

These are the projects we currently work on in the second phase of the VGIscience Priority Programme. You can find the list of projects in the first phase here.

• Extraction and Visually Driven Analysis of VGI for Understanding People’s Behavior in Relation to Multi-Faceted Context (EVA-VGI)
  • Moris Zahtila, TU Dresden
  • Maximilian Hartmann, University of Zurich, Geocomputation
  • Prof. Dr. Ross Purves, Zürich
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel, Bonn
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Burghardt, TU Dresden
  • Dr.-Ing. Alexander Dunkel, TU Dresden
  • Prof. Dr. Gennady Andrienko, Bonn
  • Prof. Dr. Natalia Andrienko, Bonn
• Continuation of Comprehensive Conjoint GPS, Sensor and Video Data (COVMAP 2)
  • Florian Kluger, Leibniz University Hannover
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bodo Rosenhahn
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Ying Yang
  • Dr. Hanno Ackermann
• Algorithmic Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice (AQA)
  • Dr. Thomas Christian van Dijk, Würzburg
• The Effects of Landmark Uncertainty in VGI-based Maps: Approaches to Improve Wayfinding and Navigation Performance (Landmark Uncertainty)
  • Julian Keil, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Lars Kuchinke, Berlin
  • Frank Dickmann, Bochum
• Active Participation and Motivation of Professionalised Digital Volunteer Communities: Distributed Decision Making and its Impact on Disaster Management Organisations (DVCHA 2)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fiedrich, Wuppertal
  • Ramian Fathi, University of Wuppertal Institute for Public Safety and Emergency Management
• Improvement of Task-Oriented Visual Interpretation of VGI Point Data (TOVIP)
  • Jochen Schiewe, g2lab / HafenCity University Hamburg
  • Martin Knura, g2lab / HafenCity University Hamburg
• Dynamic and Customizable Exploitation of Trajectory Data (Trajectories 2)
  • Timon Behr, Konstanz
  • Stefan Funke, Stuttgart
  • Sabine Storandt, Konstanz
  • Claudius Proissl, Stuttgart
• Environmental volunteered geographic information for personal exposure awareness and healthy mobility behaviour (ExpoAware)
  • Carolin Helbig, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ
  • Uwe Schlink, Helmholtz Centre UFZ
  • Torsten Masson, University of Leipzig
  • Anna Becker, Universität Leipzig
  • Abdelrhman Mohamdeen
• Accessible Reporting of Spatiotemporal Geographic Information Leveraging Generated Text and Visualization (vgiReports)
  • Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck, University of Bamberg
  • Shahid Latif, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Uncertainty-Aware Enrichment of Animal Movement Trajectories by VGI (BirdTrace)
  • Philipp Meschenmoser, Konstanz
  • Prof. Dr. Daniel Keim, Konstanz
  • Matthias Miller, Research Associate, University of Konstanz
  • Yannick Metz, PhD Student, University of Konstanz
• Inferring personalized multi-criteria routing models from sparse sets of voluntarily contributed trajectories (VGI-Routing)
  • Axel Forsch, Bonn
  • Jan-Henrik Haunert, Bonn
• Information Discovery from Big Earth Observation Data Archives by Learning from Volunteered Geographic Information (IDEAL-VGI)
  • Moritz Schott, Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, GIScience / Geoinformatics Research Group
  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, GIScience / Geoinformatics Research Group
  • Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) Group
  • apl Prof. Dr. Sven Lautenbach, Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, GIScience / Geoinformatics Research Group
  • Adina Zell
  • Gencer Sümbül, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSiM) Group, Technische Universität Berlin
• Visual analysis of volunteered geographic information for interactive situation modeling and real-time event assessment (VA4VGI-2)
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Ertl, Stuttgart
  • Dr. Steffen Koch, Stuttgart
  • Johannes Knittel
• World-Scale Completion of Geographic Knowledge (WorldKG)
  • Prof. Dr. Elena Demidova, Professor of Computer Science, University of Bonn
  • Nicolas Tempelmeier, L3S Research Center
  • Alishiba Dsouza, University of Bonn, Institut für Informatik III, Data Science & Intelligent Systems Research Group
• Privacy Aspects in Volunteered Geographic Information (Privacy Aspects)
  • Marc Löchner, TU Dresden
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Burghardt, TU Dresden
  • Dr.-Ing. Alexander Dunkel, TU Dresden