NO.7 • DECEMBER 2008 - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Awards and Achievements
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The Gino Cassinis Award for Professor Zhilin Li
李 志 林 教 授 獲 ISPRS 頒 發 Gino Cassinis 大 獎
Professor Zhilin Li of the
Department of Land Surveying
and Geo-Informatics has
been presented with The
Gino Cassinis Award by
the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote
Sensing (ISPRS) at its XXI
Congress held in Beijing from
3 to 11 July 2008, for his
significant contribution to the
development of algorithmic
foundation of multi-scale
representation of spatial
d a t a . T h e a w a r d w a s
presented at the Gala Dinner of the Congress on the evening of 10 July
2008.
The ISPRS founded in Vienna, Austria in 1910, has over 100 country
members and holds its congress every four years where awards are
presented at each congress.
The Gino Cassinis Award is sponsored by the Italian Society for
Surveying and Photogrammetry (SIFET) and is presented to a person who
has significantly enhanced the mathematical/statistical foundations of
photogrammetry, remote sensing or spatial information sciences in the four
years preceding the Congress.
Prof. Li has recently authored a research monograph titled Algorithmic
Foundation of Multi-scale Spatial Representation published in 2007 by
CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). This book lays down an excellent
mathematical/algorithmic foundation for multi-scale representation and digital
map generalization. He carried out a systematic study of the geometric
transformations required for multi-scale representation and has differentiated
six groups with a total of 40 operations (while there are only 12 or fewer
operations in existing literature). After the appropriate operations have been
identified, Prof. Li has made at least one algorithm available for each of
them. All these operations and algorithms together form a mathematical
foundation for multi-scale representation and digital map generalization.
Awarded with the Schwidefsky Medal by ISPRS in 2004 for his original
research and publication in multi-dimensional modelling and related areas,
Prof. Li has become the third person honoured twice in ISPRS history.
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Schwidefsky Medal
LSGI Researcher Wins Best Paper Award
土 地 測 量 及 地 理 資 訊 學 系 研 究 員 獲 最 佳 論 文 獎
Dr. DENG Min, a Research Associate with Prof. Li Zhilin of the Department
of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, has recently won Best Papers by
Young Authors Awards from the International Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (ISPRS) at its 21st Congress held in Beijing.
Best Papers by Young Authors Awards are presented to authors who are
less than 35 years of age and are the sole author of a high quality paper
presented at the Congress. Dr. Deng wins this prize for his paper entitled A
Hierarchical Representation of Line-Region Topological Relations.
Dr. Deng has been working with Prof. Li as a Research Associate for 4 years
and his work is currently supported by a Research Grant Council Competitive
Earmarked Research Grant (now General Research Fund) project entitled
Handling Spatial Inconsistency in Map Updating with Integrated Relational
Modelswith Prof. Li as the Principle Investor (PI).
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A Hierarchical
Representation of Line-Region Topological Relations
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Handling Spatial Inconsistency in Map Updating with Integrated
relational Models
2005
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