On October 24, Eike Hoffmann has successfully defended his thesis entitled Predicting Building Functions by Fusing Social Media and Remote Sensing Data, supervised by Prof. Xiao Xiang Zhu. The defense committee members were Prof. Martin Werner (chair), Prof. Xiao Xiang Zhu, Prof. Nathan Jacobs, and ‪Prof. Frank Petzold.

In the thesis, the prediction of building functions (e.g., commercial, residential, and other uses) by fusing social media data (namely Flickr), Google Street View and satellite imagery is explored.

Congratulations, Dr. Eike Hoffmann!