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Technical University of Munich

Benedikt Schwab, M.Sc.M.Sc.

E-mail:benedikt.schwab@tum.de
Phone:+49.89.289.23918
Fax:+49.89.289.22878
Room:0126
Address:Technical University of Munich
Benedikt Schwab
Chair of Geoinformatics
Arcisstraße 21
80333 Munich, Germany
ProfilesGitHub, Google Scholar, ORCID, LinkedIn
Office hours:By appointment via e-mail

Research areas

  • Semantic road space modeling
  • HD maps
  • Spatio-semantic analysis of sensor data
  • Simulation of LiDAR, RADAR, and camera sensors
  • Submicroscopic driving simulation

Projects

Research Projects
2021 - 2023SAVeNoW – Funktions- und Verkehrs-Sicherheit für Automatisierte und Vernetzte Mobilität
2018 - 2020Functional and traffic safety of automated and connected driving
Open Source Software
r:trånValidates and converts of OpenDRIVE datasets to CityGML
3DSensorDBGeospatial database for storing, managing, and analyzing 3D sensor data
ecoordRust library for transforming between 3D coordinate frames
egmlRust library for processing GML data
ecitygmlRust library for processing CityGML data
epointRust library for processing 3D point clouds
evoxelRust library for processing 3D voxel grids
erosbagRust library for processing ROS2 bags
etilesRust library for processing 3D Tiles data
ecitygml-converterRust library for converting CityGML data to other representations
A2D2 ROS PreparerPrepares the A2D2 dataset for ROS
Cartographer ROS for A2D2A2D2 configurations for Cartographer
Open Datasets
LOD3 Road Space Models Highly detailed road space models in CityGML 2.0 and 3.0 of five streets in the city of Ingolstadt 
TrueCityReal and Simulated Urban Data for Cross-Domain 3D Scene Understanding
TUM2TWINMultiple highly accurate and detailed representations of the TUM campus

Teaching

Advanced GIS for Environmental EngineeringWT 2021/22, WT 2022/23, WT 2023/24, WT 2024/25, WT 2025/26
TUM Data Innovation LabST 2023
Geodetic SeminarWT 2018/19, WT 2019/20, WT 2021/22, WT 2022/23, WT 2024/25
Applied Geoinformatics 2WT 2020/21, WT 2023/24, WT 2025/26
Geo Sensor Networks and the Internet of ThingsST 2024, ST 2025, ST 2026

Publications

2026

  • Nguyen, Doc; Lai, Yan-Ling; Zhang, Qilin; Gyawali, Prabin; Schwab, Benedikt; Wysocki, Olaf; Kolbe, Thomas H.: TrueCity: Real and Simulated Urban Data for Cross-Domain 3D Scene Understanding. International Conference on 3D Vision 2026 (3DV 2026), IEEE Xplore, 2026 more… BibTeX
  • Wysocki, Olaf; Schwab, Benedikt; Biswanath, Manoj Kumar; Greza, Michael; Zhang, Qilin; Zhu, Jingwei; Froech, Thomas; Heeramaglore, Medhini; Hijazi, Ihab; Kanna, Khaoula; Pechinger, Mathias; Chen, Zhaiyu; Sun, Yao; Segura, Alejandro Rueda; Xu, Ziyang; AbdelGafar, Omar; Mehranfar, Mansour; Yeshwanth, Chandan; Liu, Yueh-Cheng; Yazdi, Hadi; Wang, Jiapan; Auer, Stefan; Anders, Katharina; Bogenberger, Klaus; Borrmann, André; Dai, Angela; Hoegner, Ludwig; Holst, Christoph; Kolbe, Thomas H.; Ludwig, Ferdinand; Nießner, Matthias; Petzold, Frank; Zhu, Xiao Xiang; Jutzi, Boris: TUM2TWIN: Introducing the large-scale multimodal urban digital twin benchmark dataset. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 232, 2026, 810-830 more… BibTeX
  • Xu, Ziyang; Schwab, Benedikt; Yang, Yihui; Kolbe, Thomas H.; Holst, Christoph: L2M-Reg: Building-level uncertainty-aware registration of outdoor LiDAR point clouds and semantic 3D city models. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 233, 2026, 467-486 more… BibTeX

2025

  • Fröch, Thomas; Wysocki, Olaf; Xia, Yan; Xie, Junyu; Schwab, Benedikt; Cremers, Daniel; Kolbe, Thomas H.: FacaDiffy: Inpainting unseen facade parts using diffusion models. ISPRS Geo-Spatial Week (GSW 2025), 2025 more… BibTeX
  • González-Collazo, Silvia María; Schwab, Benedikt; Beil, Christof; Kolbe, Thomas H.; González, Elena; Balado, Jesús: Curbside management from MLS and HMLS point clouds to CityGML 3.0. Geo-spatial Information Science, 2025, 1-23 more… BibTeX
  • Luo, Yuan; Hoffmann, Rudolf; Xia, Yan; Wysocki, Olaf; Schwab, Benedikt; Kolbe, Thomas H.; Cremers, Daniel: RADLER: Radar Object Detection Leveraging Semantic 3D City Models and Self-Supervised Radar-Image Learning. 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), IEEE, 2025 more… BibTeX

2024

  • Schwab, Benedikt; Knezevic Marija; Gitahi, Joseph; Wysocki, Olaf; Kanna, Khaoula; Balaj, Çeltina; Fröch, Thomas; Lu, Ying; Ovais, Sarah; Pilz, Tanja; Stout, Dawson: Die Trendanalyse zur INTERGEO 2023. zfv - Zeitschrift für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement (1), 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Schwab, Benedikt; Knezevic Marija; Gitahi, Joseph; Wysocki, Olaf; Kanna, Khaoula; Balaj, Çeltina; Fröch, Thomas; Lu, Ying; Ovais, Sarah; Pilz, Tanja; Stout, Dawson: Trendanalyse Intergeo 2023. gis.Business (1), 2024, 52-56 more… BibTeX
  • Wysocki, Olaf; Schwab, Benedikt; Beil, Christof; Holst, Christoph; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Reviewing Open Data Semantic 3D City Models to Develop Novel 3D Reconstruction Methods. ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “Spatial Information to Empower the Metaverse” (The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences), ISPRS, 2024, 493–500 more… BibTeX

2022

  • Schwab, Benedikt; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Validation of Parametric OpenDRIVE Road Space Models. Proceedings of the 17th International 3D GeoInfo Conference 2022 (ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences), 2022 more… BibTeX

2021

  • Beil, Christof; Kutzner, Tatjana; Schwab, Benedikt; Willenborg, Bruno; Gawronski, Alexander; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Integration of 3D point clouds with semantic 3D city models – Providing semantic information beyond classification. Proceedings of the 16th International 3D GeoInfo Conference 2021 ( ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ), 2021, 105--112 more… BibTeX
  • Beil, Christof; Knezevic, Marija; Schwab, Benedikt; Wysocki, Olaf; Abdelhamid, Mohamed; Bajramovic, Vedran; Subbaraman, Somakala: Trendanalyse Intergeo 2021. gis.Business (6), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Wysocki, Olaf.; Schwab, Benedikt.; Hoegner, Ludwig.; Kolbe, Thomas H.; Stilla, Uwe: Plastic Surgery for 3D City Models: A Pipeline for Automatic Geometry Refinement and Semantic Enrichment. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus GmbH, 2021ISPRS Congress 2021, 17-24 more… BibTeX

2020

  • Schwab, Benedikt; Beil, Christof; Kolbe Thomas H.: Spatio-Semantic Road Space Modeling for Vehicle–Pedestrian Simulation to Test Automated Driving Systems. Sustainability 12 (9), 2020, 3799 more… BibTeX

2019

  • Angermann, Lucas; Donaubauer, Andreas; Graw, Katharina; Holtkamp, Jonathan; Huber, Tobias; Nguyen, Son H.; Schwab, Benedikt; Wysocki, Olaf: INTERGEO 2019 TREND ANALYSIS. HINTE Messe- und Ausstellungs-GmbH, 2019, more… BibTeX
  • Angermann, Lucas; Donaubauer, Andreas; Graw, Katharina; Holtkamp, Jonathan; Huber, Tobias; Nguyen, Son H.; Schwab, Benedikt; Wysocki, Olaf: Und jährlich grüßt die INTERGEO. zfv - Zeitschrift für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement 144 (6), 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Schwab, Benedikt; Kolbe, Thomas H.: Requirement Analysis of 3D Road Space Models for Automated Driving. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-4/W8, 2019, 99-106 more… BibTeX

2018

  • Marx, Caroline; Schwab, Benedikt; Nguyen, Son H.; ElFouly, Mostafa; Angermann, Lucas; Hotschek, Alexander; Kammel, Frederik; Lauterbach, Roswitha; Lechner, Katharina; Zagst, Sabine: Trendanalyse InterGEO 2018. zfv - Zeitschrift für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement 143 (6), 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Sippl, Christoph; Schwab, Benedikt; Kielar, Peter; Djanatliev, Anatoli: Distributed Real-Time Traffic Simulation for Autonomous Vehicle Testing in Urban Environments. 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE, 2018, 2562-2567 more… BibTeX
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