Object and Shape Detection

3D data acquisition and automated data interpretation

In the »Object and Shape Detection« business unit, systems are developed for 3D detection of the geometry and location of objects. As a rule, the detection takes place from moving platforms and extends over a wide distance range – from tenths of a millimeter to the 100-meter range. The focus is on the research and development of very fast and robust measuring systems based on time-of-flight measurement technology or camera systems.

The spectrum of our customized measuring systems ranges from highly complex multispectral laser scanners to smartphones as measuring devices, which we equip with specially developed software for this purpose.

When evaluating data, we take advantage of the opportunities offered by current groundbreaking developments in machine learning. This enables us to extract maximum information from measurement data and to gain new information from existing measurement results. Our turnkey systems consist of high-precision measuring devices with downstream automated data evaluation.

Our offer in the imaging object and shape detection includes
 

  • Development of tailor-made measuring systems
  • Software development along the entire 3D data process chain
  • Technology consulting and evaluation
  • Feasibility studies and aptitude tests
  • Contract measurements
  • Simulation of optics, electronics, mechanics and thermal distribution

 

Systems in operation

Examples of our developments are hand-held and industrially used measuring instruments from companies such as Bosch or Tessari. Our laser scanners are used by leading 3D measurement technology providers such as FARO, by Deutsche Bahn (DB), Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) and ten other railway operators worldwide on three continents. The German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) uses our measuring systems as reference devices. These scanner systems are world leaders in terms of measurement speed and accuracy and are continuously being further developed using highly integrated and low-cost components from communication electronics.

News & Information

 

Press release / 23.11.2022

Compact system for topographical measurement of shallow bodies of water

As part of the ACQUA-3D research project, a team at Fraunhofer IPM is cooperating with partners from research and industry to develop a particularly small and lightweight bathymetric measurement system for use on UAVs, for the particular application of measuring shallow bodies of water.

 

Press release / 22.11.2022

The city as a digital twin

As part of the MuSiS project, Fraunhofer IPM and incontext.technology GmbH have joined forces to develop a process for creating a digital twin of urban environments. The process is intended to provide a solid data basis for construction or maintenance of urban infrastructure quickly and with deep granularity. The idea behind the MuSiS research project is that measurement systems installed on taxis, busses and streetcars record their environment while the vehicles drive along their usual route, constantly collecting up-to-date data.

Awards

Ken Brodlie Prize

 

Best paper award granted by Journal »Computer Graphics & Visual Computing«

A team of authors led by our colleague Bastian Stahl receives the Ken Brodlie Prize for their “Paper Real-time Indexing of Point Cloud Data During LiDAR Capture“ , in which the authors demonstrate strategies for real-time indexing of LiDAR data. 

 

Project MuSe-3D

Multispectral camera system surveys moorlands from the air

What is the state of marshlands in the face of climate change? To investigate this question, we supported RSS GmbH with technology and know-how for 3D data acquisition. Mounted on a drone, our multispectral camera system recorded data on the condition of the moorlands around the Bavarian town of Benediktbeuern. The results can be viewed in an interactive 3D map.

 

 

Press release / 1.2.2022

High-precision 3D surveying of the Liebensteinspeicher reservoir

On behalf of the Weiden Water Management Authority, GeoGroup GmbH and Fraunhofer IPM have now conducted a survey of 100 percent of the Liebensteinspeicher reservoir in Germany’s Upper Palatinate region.

 

Whitepaper

Building and construction surveying with laser scanning
technology

 

Topics: Automated object recognition in 3D data, data aquisition from the air, multispectral sensor concept for tunnel inspection.

 

November 23–24, 2022

MoLaS Mobile Laser Scanning Technology Workshop 2022

We were happy to have you here at the workshop. See you in 2024!

Trade Fairs 2023

 

INTERGEO
Berlin, October 10 to 12 

 

 

 

 

Partners and Networks

  • CNA Center for Transportation & Logistics Neuer Adler e.V. Cluster Bahntechnik Bayern
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation e.V. (DGPF)
  • Deutsche Hydrographische Gesellschaft  e.V. (DHyG)