Prof. Dr. Armin Grün

Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
8093 Zurich
Switzerland
+41 - 44 - 633 3038
+41 - 44 - 633 3157 (secretary's office)
+41 - 44 - 633 1101
agruen@geod.baug.ethz.ch

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Biographical Data

Prof. Dr. Armin Gruen is since 1984 Professor and Head of the Chair of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zuerich, Switzerland. He graduated 1968 as Dipl.-Ing. in Geodetic Science and obtained his doctorate degree 1974 in Photogrammetry, both from the Technical University Munich, Germany.
From 1969 to 1975 he worked as Assistant Professor, and until 1981 as Associate Professor, at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography, Technical University Munich. From 1981 to 1984 he acted as Associate Professor at the Department of Geodetic Science and Surveying, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Prof. Gruen has held lecturing and research assignments at the University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, USA, Department of Geodesy, Technical University Delft, Netherlands, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia and Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan. He has lectured at the University level since 1969, with photogrammetry and remote sensing as major subjects, surveying, cartography and adjustment calculus as minor subjects. He served as the Head of the Department of Geodetic Sciences 1996-97 and as the Dean of Faculty "Rural Engineering and Surveying" of ETH Zurich (1996-98).
He is promoter and Director of the Postdiploma Course "Spatial Information Systems" at the ETH Zurich and Co-founder of CyberCity AG. Through the Commission for Remote Sensing he is Member of the Swiss National Academy of Natural Sciences. He is Member of the Editorial Board of several scientific journals. He has published more than 375 articles and papers and is Editor and Co-editor of 21 books and Conference Proceedings. He has organized and co-organized/co-chaired over 30 international conferences and has served as a consultant to various government agencies, system manufacturers and engineering firms in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, USA and other countries.
He served as the President of ISPRS Commission V (ISPRS...International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), as ISPRS Council Member (Vice President) and Council Member of IUSM (International Union of Surveys and Mapping), Chairman of the ISPRS Financial Commission and is currently Chairman of ISAC (International Scientific Advisory Committee), International Member of the Fourth Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, China, Member of the First Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Mapping from Space of the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM), Beijing, China and Member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Earth Society.

His international awards and honors include:

  • the Otto von Gruber Gold Medal (ISPRS, 1980),
  • Talbert Abrams Award Grand Trophy (ASPRS, 1985 and 1996),
  • Fairchild Award (ASPRS, 1995),
  • Miegunyah Distinguished Fellowship Award (1999),
  • U.V. Helava Award (ISPRS, 2000),
  • the Corresponding Membership of the German Geodetic Commission (Munich, Germany),
  • the Honorary Professorship of the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and the Wuhan University (Wuhan, China),
  • the Honorary Professorship of the Yunnan Normal University (Kunming, China),
  • the Honorary Membership of the Japanese Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • the Honorary Membership of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • the Brock Gold Medal Award (ISPRS, 2008)

    His main current research interests include: Automated object detection and reconstruction with digital photogrammetric and videogrammetric techniques, building and line feature extraction, image matching, industrial quality control using vision techniques, motion capture and face reconstruction for animation, imaging techniques for generation and control of VRs and VEs, PTV-based flow measurement, 3D cloud mapping and tracking, sensor modeling and image matching of three-line-scanner imagery, 3D city modeling, cultural heritage documentation and natural hazards monitoring, 3D precision processing of highresolution satellite images, mobile phone and UAV photogrammetry.

    List of Publications

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