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Stephan Winter

Professor
Infrastructure Engineering
Human orientation
Urban analytics
Smart transport
Evacuation
Crowd sourcing
volunteered geographic information
wayfinding and navigation
information sharing
shared mobility
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Stephan Winter

 
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Engineering
 
Primary Interest
Disaster management and emergency response
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Stephan Winter is Professor for Spatial Information Science in the Department of Infrastructure Engineeering at The University of Melbourne.

Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Stephan Winter.

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FairSEED scoping project

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Academic Sensor Advisory Panel

2017 - 2017
Completed
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Making human place knowledge digestible by computers

This project aims to develop the tools that will enable people to interact intuitively with computers about places and the relations between..

2017 - 2019
Completed
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Self-Healing Maps: protecting maps through automatic updating processes.

This project aims to expand our ability to automatically integrate real-time data in map databases of high integrity. Our ability to sense t..

2017 - 2020
Completed
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Social cars meet Social travellers

2016 - 2017
Completed
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Integrating Fundamentals of Place in Geographic Information System Design

2016 - 2016
Completed
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URBAN FUTURES - MOBILITY DEMAND

2015 - 2015
Completed
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URBAN FUTURES - MOBILITY DEMAND

2015 - 2015
Completed
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URBAN FUTURES - MOBILITY DEMAND

2015 - 2015
Completed
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URBAN FUTURES – MOBILITY

2014 - 2016
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

18

Research Grant

7

Internal Research Grant

4

Research Contracts

Additional Information

Over the years I have led a range of research projects, both in fundamental research (such as ARC Discovery Projects) and in applied research (such as ARC Linkage Projects and CRC projects). In these projects I have collaborated with colleagues from a range of disciplines, and with large and small enterprise partners in industry and not-for-profit organisations.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Stephan Winter.

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A Recurrent Deep Network for Estimating the Pose of Real Indoor Images from Synthetic Image Sequences.

Debaditya Acharya, Sesa Singha Roy, Kourosh Khoshelham, Stephan Winter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sensors

Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have become popular for indoor visual localisation, where the networks learn to..

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Origin-Destination Flow Estimation from Link Count Data Only.

Subhrasankha Dey, Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sensors

All established models in transportation engineering that estimate the numbers of trips between origins and destinations from vehi..

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RIM: a ray intersection model for the analysis of the between relationship of spatial objects in a 2D plane

Ivan Majic, Elham Naghizade, Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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The Impact of Flexible Platoon Formation Operations

Santa Maiti, Stephan Winter, Lars Kulik, Sudeshna Sarkar

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

Vehicle platooning, a coordinated vehicle movement strategy, has been proposed to address a range of current transport challenges ..

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Wayfinding and navigation research for sustainable transport

Stephan Winter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Spatial Information Science

Spatial information science contributes to the foundations of sustainable transport development. This article focuses especially o..

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Place facets: a systematic literature review

Ehsan Hamzei, Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko

Journal article  |  2020  |  Spatial Cognition and Computation

Place is a central concept in geography and a topic of interest in the social sciences, urban planning, architecture, and most rec..

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Toward identifying the critical mass in spatial two-sided markets

Z Navidi, K Nagel, S Winter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Unlike their nonspatial counterparts, spatial multi-sided platforms are matchmaking platforms with an additional layer of complexi..

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Place questions and human-generated answers: A data analysis approach

Ehsan Hamzei, Haonan Li, M Vasardani, T Baldwin, S Winter, M Tomko

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Geospatial Technologies for Local and Regional Development. Proceedings of the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science

This paper investigates place-related questions submitted to search systems and their human-generated answers. Place-based search ..

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Geoinformation zur Navigationsunterstützung

Stephan Winter

Book Chapter  |  2019

Auf grundlegende Prinzipien der Geoinformatik und Geoinformationssysteme wird verzichtet, da sie in Standardwerken zu finden sind...

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Places in Information Science

RS Purves, S Winter, W Kuhn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Human spatial concepts, such as the concept of place, are not immediately translatable to the geometric foundations of spatial dat..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Geomatic Engineering
Computer Software and Services
Information Services
Expanding Knowledge
Other Information Services
Urban and Regional Planning
Civil Engineering
Other Information and Communication Services
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Communication Networks and Services

News

Displaying the 5 most recent news articles by Stephan Winter.

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Giving driverless vehicles the human touch

Stephan Winter, Maria Vasardani

October 23, 2018
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How to find the truth on Twitter

Stephan Winter

December 11, 2017
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Ridesharing goes social

Stephan Winter, Egemen Tanin

May 1, 2017
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Growing challenges are disrupting our old ways of getting around cities

Stephan Winter

January 11, 2016
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A city thrives on connectedness but access all hours makes privacy a problem

Stephan Winter, Christopher Leckie

November 22, 2015

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2019

Best paper award (Gupta, Vasardani and Winter)

ITS World Congress
2017

Best Research Paper Award (with Yaoli Wang; paper presented 2016)

ACM SIGSPATIAL
2016

Best Vision Paper Award (with Agatz, Bazzan, Kutadinata, Mattfeld, Sester, and Wolfson)

ACM SIGSPATIAL
2013

Best Paper Award for "From Descriptions to Depictions: A Conceptual Framework" (with Vasardani, Timpf and Tomko)

Conference on Spatial Information Theory
2013

Swiss National Fonds Visiting Fellowship, Switzerland
2012

Australian Academy of Science Visiting Fellowship, India
2010

Outstanding Paper Award (with Han Wang)

ITS World Congress 2010
2010

Best Paper Award for "A spatio-temporal model towards ad-hoc collaborative decision-making" (with Martin Raubal)

13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2010
2008

U. V. Helava Award (shared)

ISPRS
2007

Fellowship

Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies

10

Awards

Credentials

Positions

Positions

Professor

Infrastructure Engineering

Emi College Member

ARC College of Experts

Chair

ASIERA

Its Society

IEEE

Member

SSSI

Sigspatial

ACM

Isprs Scientific Advisory Committee

ISPRS

Education

Education

Habilitation (tenure)

Technical University Vienna

Doktor des Ingenieurwesens

University of Bonn

Diplom-Ingenieur

University of Bonn

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