Ville Lehtola, Dr. Sc.

PhD candidates under my (co-)supervision:

• Benjamin van Manen, Thermal-LIDAR SLAM for firefighter situational awareness, Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente (supervision jointly with Francesco Nex and Saxion)

• Muhammad Affan (semantic-metric SLAM for modeling environments in XR, XTREME EU project), Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente (supervision jointly with George Vosselman)

• Haiyang Wu (real-time semantic-metric SLAM, distillation techniques), Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente (supervision jointly with George Vosselman) 

• Shunqiang Xu, Learning good seamanship for autonomous ships from AIS data, Cognition, Data and Education section, University of Twente (supervision jointly with Stephanie van der Berg)

• Post-doc: Abanob Soleiman (sensor fusion for autonomous off-road navigation), Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente

PhDs graduated under my (co-)supervision:

• Samer Karam (2021), Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente (supervision jointly with George Vosselman)

• Heikki Hyyti (2023), Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University (supervision jointly with Arto Visala)

MSc works supervised (with distinction):

• Pekka Väänänen, Umbra Ltd, University of Helsinki (supervision jointly with Arto Klami)

• Geethanjali Anjanappa, University of Twente (supervision jointly with Sander Oude Elberink)

While working at Aalto university and Finnish Geospatial research Institute, I supervised many students unofficially.

Scientific organizations:

I am

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens, since 2022-

• Chair in ISPRS working group ICWG I/IV, "Robotics for Mapping and Machine Intelligence", 2022-2025; co-chair during 2016-2021

• Guest Editor in Theme Issue “3D Modeling of Indoor Environments”, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Elsevier (2020-2021)

• Special Issue Editor in "Advances in Mobile Mapping Technologies", Remote Sensing, MDPI (2019-2020) and