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5) Kocaman, S., Akca, D., Poli, D., Remondino, F. (Eds.), 2023. 3D/4D City Modelling: From Sensors to Applications. Whittles Publishing. ISBN 978-184995-475-4.

4) Akca, D., Stylianidis, E., Poli, D., Gruen, A., Altan, O., Hofer, M., Smagas, K., Martin, V.S., Walli, A., Jimeno, E., and Garcia, A., 2019. Pre- and Post-Fire Comparison of Forest Areas in 3D. In: Altan O., Chandra M., Sunar F., Tanzi T. (eds), Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management. Gi4DM 2018. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNG&C). ISBN 978-3-030-05330-7. Springer, Cham, pp. 265-294.

3) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2009. Photogrammetric Documentation of Alois Payer's Art Studio. In: Institut für Denkmalpflege und Bauforschung der ETH Zürich (Ed.), Methoden eines Ad-hoc-Inventars. Das Künstleratelier Payer & Wipplinger in Einsiedeln. ISBN 978-3-7281-3244-4, vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich, pp. 15-23.

2) Akca, D., 2007. Least Squares 3D surface matching. Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 3-906467-63-5, Mitteilungen Nr.92, 78 pages.
The Silver Medal of ETH Zurich - Distinction of the Doctoral Thesis

Carl Pulfrich Award - 2009

1) Akca, M.D., 2000. Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemi ile çevresel verilerin modellenmesi: Trabzon Değirmendere Vadisi örneği. Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi - Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Trabzon, Türkiye, 146 sayfa (M.Sc. thesis, in Turkish).

Patents

2) 27.12.2023: Yersel lazer tarayicilarin ürettigi nokta bulutlarina yönelik genel bir hata modeli yöntemi (A generic point error model for the points clouds produced by the Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS)), Mustafa ÖZENDI, Devrim AKCA, Hüseyin TOPAN, Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu, Patent no: TR 2017 07394 B. Patent belgesi verilis tarihi: 22/01/2024.

1) 12.04.2022: Yersel Lazer Tarayicilarin (YLT) Ürettigi Nokta Bulutlarindan Yüzey Agi Olusturma Yöntemi (A Mesh Reconstruction Method for the Points Clouds Produced by the Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS)), Mustafa ÖZENDI, Devrim AKCA, Hüseyin TOPAN, Türk Patent ve Marka Kurumu, Patent no: TR 2019 00068 B. Patent belgesi verilis tarihi: 21/04/2022.

In Journals

16) Ozendi, M., Akca, D., Topan, H., 2023. A point cloud filtering method based on anisotropic error model. The Photogrammetric Record, 38(184), 460-497.

15) Stylianidis, E., Akca, D., Poli, D., Hofer, M., Gruen, A., Martin, V.S., Smagas, K., Walli, A., Altan, O., Jimeno, E., Garcia, A., 2020. FORSAT: a 3D forest monitoring system for cover mapping and volumetric 3D change detection. International Journal of Digital Earth, 13(8), 854-885.

14) Askarinejad, A., Akca, D., Springman, M., 2018. Precursors of instability in a natural slope due to rainfall: a full-scale experiment. Landslides, 15 (9), 1745-1759.

13) Akca, D., Seybold, H.J., 2016. Monitoring of a laboratory-scale inland-delta formation using a structured-light system. The Photogrammetric Record, 31 (154), 121-142.

12) Avsar, E.Ö., Altan, M.O., Dogan, Ü.A., Akca, D., 2015. Determining pull-out deformations by means of an online photogrammetry monitoring system. International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2(1), 54-61.

11) Akca, D., 2013. Photogrammetric monitoring of an artificially–generated shallow landslide. The Photogrammetric Record, 28(142), 178-195.

10) Akca, D., 2012. 3D modeling of cultural heritage objects with a structured light system. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 12(1), 139-152.

9) Mano, K., Ishii, K., Hirao, M., Tachibana, K., Yoshimura, M., Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2012. A Study on Accuracy Investigation of Point Clouds Generated by the Mobile Mapping System (MMS). Journal of the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 51(4), 186-200.

8) Akca, D., Freeman, M., Sargent, I., and Gruen, A., 2010. Quality assessment of 3D building data. The Photogrammetric Record, 25(132), 339-355.

7) Seybold, H.J., Molnar, P., Akca, D., Doumi, M., Cavalcanti Tavares, M., Shinbrot, T., Andrade Jr., J.S., Kinzelbach, W. Herrmann, H.J., 2010. Topography of inland deltas: Observations, modeling, and experiments. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (8), L08402, 5 pages.

6) Akca, D., 2010. Co-registration of surfaces by 3D Least Squares matching. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 76 (3) , 307-318 .

5) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2009. Comparative geometric and radiometric evaluation of mobile phone and still video cameras. The Photogrammetric Record, 24 (127), 217–245.

4) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2009. Radiometric performance analysis of mobile phone cameras. Asian Journal of Geoinformatics, 9 (1), 1–6.

3) Akca, D., 2007. Matching of 3D surfaces and their intensities. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 62 (2), 112-121.

2) Gruen, A., Akca, D., 2005. Least squares 3D surface and curve matching. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 59 (3), 151-174.

1) Akca, D., Doğan, S., 2002. Sayısal görüntülerde Ana Bileşenler Dönüşümü. Harita Dergisi, sayı 129, sayfa 1-15 (in Turkish).

In Proceedings of Scientific Events

47) Akca, D., Stylianidis, E., Poli, D., Gruen, A., Altan, O., Hofer, M., Smagas, K., Martin, V.S., Walli, A., Jimeno, E., and Garcia, A., 2019. A Precision Estimation Method for Volumetric Changes. The 9th Int. IEEE Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-14, pp. 245-251. doi: 10.1109/RAST.2019.8767874

46) Ozendi, M., Akca, D., and Topan, H., 2018. Stochastic surface mesh reconstruction. ISPRS TC II Mid-term Symposium "Towards Photogrammetry 2020", Riva del Garda, Italy, June 4-7. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-2, pp. 805-812, doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-805-2018.

45) Akca, D., Stylianidis, E., Poli, D., Gruen, A., Altan, O., Hofer, M., Smagas, K., Martin, V.S., Walli, A., Jimeno, E., and Garcia, A., 2018. 3-Dimensional pre- and post-fire comparison of forest areas. GeoInformation For Disaster Management (Gi4DM), Istanbul, Turkey, March 18-21. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-3/W4, pp. 9-16, doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-W4-9-2018.

44) Ozendi, M., Akca, D., and Topan, H., 2017. A generic point error model for TLS derived point clouds. Videometrics, Range Imaging, and Applications XIV, SPIE Optical Metrology, Munich, Germany, June 25-29. Proc. SPIE 10332, 103320J; doi:10.1117/12.2269373

43) Ozendi, M., Akca, D., and Topan, H., 2016. An emprical point error model for TLS derived point clouds. The 23th ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-19. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLI-B5, pp. 557-563, doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B5-557-2016.

42) Akca, D., Stylianidis, E., Smagas, K., Hofer, M., Poli, D., Gruen, A., Martin, V.S., Altan, O., Walli, A., Jimeno, E., and Garcia, A., 2016. Volumetric Forest Change Detection Through VHR Satellite Imagery. The 23th ISPRS Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-19. Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLI-B8, pp. 1213-1220, doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-1213-2016.

41) Poli, D., Akca, D., Stylianidis, S., and Hofer, M., 2014. Forsat: 3D forest monitoring with optical satellite images. In proceedings of ForestSAT 2014, Riva delGarda, Italy, November 4-7 (only on CD-ROM).

40) Avsar, Ö., Akca, D., and Altan, O., 2014. Photogrammetric Deformation Monitoring of the Second Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. ISPRS Technical Commission V Symposium, Riva del Garda, Italy, June 23–25. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XL-5, pp. 71-76, doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-71-2014.

39) Aydar, U., Akca, D., Altan, M.O., and Akyilmaz, O., 2013. Total Least Squares registration of 3D surfaces. ISPRS Workshop Laser Scanning 2013, Antalya, Turkey, November 11-13. The ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. II-5/W2, pp. 25-30, doi:10.5194/isprsannals-II-5-W2-25-2013.

38) Mano, K., Ishii, K., Hirao, M., Tachibana, K., Yoshimura, M., Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2012. Empirical accuracy assessment of MMS laser point clouds. The 22th ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, August 25 – September 1. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIX, part B5, pp. 495-498.

37) Akca, D., and Seybold, H., 2012. Laboratory flume experiment with a coded structured light system. The 22th ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, August 25 – September 1. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIX, part B5, pp. 399-404.

36) Aydar, U., Altan, M.O., Akyilmaz, O., Akca, D., 2012. Co-registration of 3D point clouds by using an error-in-variables model. The 22th ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, August 25 – September 1. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIX, part B5, pp. 151-155.

35) Avsar, E.O., Altan, M.O., Dogan, U.A., Akca, D., 2012. Determining pull-out deformations of bonded metal anchors embedded in concrete by means of photogrammetry. The 22th ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, August 25 – September 1. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIX, part B5, pp. 5-8.

34) Akca, D., Gruen, A., Askarinejad, A., and Springman, S.M., 2011. Photogrammetric monitoring of an artificially generated landslide. The International Conference on GeoInformation For Disaster Management (Gi4DM'11), Antalya, Turkey, May 3-8 (only on CD-ROM).

33) Askarinejad, A., Springman, S.M., Akca, D., Bleiker, E., and Gruen, A., 2010. Subsurface deformation measurements during a fast shallow landslide triggered by rainfall. EGU General Assembly (EGU 2010), Vienna, Austria, May 2-7, Vol. 12, p. 15104.

32) Akca, D., 2010. 3B Kent modellerinin kalite kontrolü. III. Uzaktan Algılama ve Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri Sempozyumu, Gebze, Kocaeli, 11-13 Ekim, sayfa 88-96 (in Turkish).

31) Akca, D., Gruen, A., Freeman, M., and Sargent, I., 2009. Fast quality control of 3D city models. The International LIDAR Mapping Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana, US, January 26-28 (only on CD-ROM).

30) Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2008. Radiometric performance analysis of mobile phone cameras. 29th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS'08), Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 10-14 (only on CD-ROM).

29) Gruen, A., and Akca, D., 2008. Metric accuracy testing with mobile phone cameras. 21th ISPRS Congress, Beijing, China, July 3-11. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVII, part B5, pp. 729-736.

28) Akca, D., Freeman, M., Gruen, A., and Sargent, I., 2008. Quality assessment of 3D building data by 3D surface matching. 21th ISPRS Congress, Beijing, China, July 3-11. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVII, part B2, pp. 771-777.

27) Gruen, A., and Akca, D., 2008. Evaluation of the metric performance of mobile phone cameras. 6th International ARIDA (Association for Real Time Imaging and Dynamic Analysis) Workshop "Innovation in 3D measurement, modeling and visualization", Trento, Italy, February 25-26 (only on CD-ROM).

26) Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2008. Co-registration of pointclouds by 3D Least Squares matching. The International LIDAR Mapping Forum, Denver, Colorado, US, February 21-22 (only on CD-ROM).

25) Gruen, A., and Akca, D., 2008. Evaluation of metric performance of mobile phone cameras. International Calibration and Orientation Workshop EuroCOW 2008, Castelldefels, Spain, January 30 - February 1 (only on CD-ROM).

24) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2007. Simultaneous co-registration and georeferencing of multiple pointclouds. 28th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS'07), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 12-16 (only on CD-ROM).

23) Gruen, A., Akca, D., 2007. Calibration and accuracy testing of mobile phone cameras. 28th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS'07), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 12-16 (only on CD-ROM).

22) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2007. Generalized Least Squares multiple 3D surface matching. ISPRS Workshop on Laser Scanning 2007 and SilviLaser 2007, Espoo, Finland, September 12-14. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVI, part 3 / W52, pp. 1-7.

21) Baltsavias E., Kocaman S., Akca D., and Wolff K., 2007. Geometric and Radiometric Investigations of Cartosat-1 Data. ISPRS Hannover Workshop 2007, "High Resolution Earth Imaging for Geospatial Information", Hannover, Germany, May 29- June 1, (on CD-ROM).

20) Akca, D., Gruen, A., Breuckmann, B., and Lahanier, C., 2007. High definition 3D-scanning of arts objects and paintings. In: Gruen, A., Kahmen, H. (Eds.), Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques VIII, Zurich, Switzerland, July 9-12, vol. II, pp. 50-58.

19) Akca, D., 2007. Least squares matching of 3D surfaces. 4th Symposium of Turkish Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Istanbul, Turkey, June 5-7, (only on CD-ROM).

18) Baltsavias, E., Eisenbeiss, H., Akca, D., Waser, L.T., Küchler, M., Ginzler, C. and Thee, P., 2007. Modeling fractional shrub/tree cover and multi-temporal changes using high-resolution digital surface models and CIR-aerial images. Dreiländertagung SGPBF, DGPF und OVG, Muttenz, Switzerland, June 19-21, DGPF Tagungsband 16 / 2007, pp. 287-297.

17) Gruen, A., and Akca, D., 2007. Mobile Photogrammetry. Dreiländertagung SGPBF, DGPF und OVG, Muttenz, Switzerland, June 19-21, DGPF Tagungsband 16 / 2007, pp. 441-451.

16) Akca, D., Remondino, F., Novàk, D., Hanusch, T., Schrotter, G., and Gruen, A., 2007. Performance evaluation of a coded structured light system for cultural heritage applications. Videometrics IX, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, San Jose (California), USA, January 29-30, SPIE vol. 6491, pp. 64910V-1-12.

15) Akca, D., Remondino, F., Novàk, D., Hanusch, T., Schrotter, G., and Gruen, A., 2006. Recording and modeling of cultural heritage objects with coded structured light projection systems. 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology, Rome, Italy, December 4-7, pp.375-382.

14) Zhang, L., Kocaman, S., Akca, D., Kornus, W., and Baltsavias, E., 2006. Test and performance evaluation of DMC images and new methods for their processing. ISPRS Commission I Symposium, Paris, July 3-6, (only on CD-ROM).

13) Akca, D., Gruen, A., Alkis, Z., Demir, N., Breuckmann, B., Erduyan, I., and Nadir, E., 2006. 3D modeling of the Weary Herakles statue with a coded structured light system. ISPRS Commission V Symposium, Dresden, September 25-27. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVI, part 5, pp. 14-19.

12) Akca, D., Gruen, A., Alkis, Z., Demir, N., Breuckmann, B., Erduyan, I., and Nadir, E., 2006. 3D modeling of the Weary Herakles statue. 5th International Symposium Turkish-German Geodetic Days, Berlin, March 28-31, (only on CD-ROM).

11) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2005. Recent advances in least squares 3D surface matching. In: Gruen, A., Kahmen, H. (Eds.), Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques VII, Vienna, Austria, October 3-5, vol. II, pp. 197-206.

10) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2005. Fast correspondence search for 3D surface matching. ISPRS Workshop Laser scanning 2005, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 12-14. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVI, part 3/W19, pp. 186-191.

9) Fluehler, M., Niederoest, J., Akca, D., 2005. Development of an educational software system for the digital monoplotting. ISPRS Workshop on "Tools and Techniques for E-Learning", Potsdam, Germany, June 1-3. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXVI, part 6/W30 (on CD-ROM).

8) Akca, D., 2005. Registration of point clouds using range and intensity information. International Workshop on Recording, Modeling and Visualization of Cultural Heritage, Ascona, Switzerland, May 22-27, E. Baltsavias, A. Gruen, L. Van Gool, M. Pateraki (Eds.), Taylor & Francis/Balkema, Leiden, pp. 115-126.

7) Gruen, A., Akca, D., 2005. Least squares 3D surface matching. ASPRS 2005 Annual Conference, Baltimore (Maryland), USA, March 7-11 (on CD-ROM).

6) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2005. A flexible mathematical model for matching of 3D surfaces and attributes. Videometrics VIII, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, San Jose (California), USA, January 18-20, SPIE vol. 5665, pp.184-195.

5) Akca, D., 2004. A new algorithm for 3D surface matching. 20th ISPRS Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-23. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXV, part B7, pp.960-965.
The ISPRS Award for Best Papers by Young Authors (2004)

4) Gruen, A., Akca, D., 2004. Least squares 3D surface matching. ISPRS "Panoramic Photogrammetry Workshop", Dresden, Germany, February 19-22. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIV, part 5/W16 (on CD-ROM).

3) Akca, D., Gruen, A., 2003. Re-sequencing a historical palm leaf manuscript with boundary-based shape descriptors. 19th CIPA International Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, September 30-October 4. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XXXIV, part 5/C15, pp. 55-60.

2) Akca, D., 2003. Full automatic registration of laser scanner point clouds. In: Gruen, A., Kahmen, H. (Eds.), Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques VI, Zurich, Switzerland, September 22-25, vol. I, pp. 330-337.

1) Yomralıoğlu, T., Akca, M.D., 1999. Çevresel Bilgi Sistemleri için model-altlık tasarımı: Trabzon Değirmendere Havzası örneği. Yerel Yönetimlerde Kent Bilgi Sistemi Uygulamaları Sempozyumu, Trabzon, 13-15 Ekim, sayfa 297-306 (in Turkish).

Technical Reports and Varia

12) Akca, D., 2017. 3D recording, documentation and management of cultural heritage. Book review. Journal of Spatial Science, 62 (1), 207-208.

11) Akca, D., 2010. Special Issue "Remote Sensing in Natural and Cultural Heritage". Editor Note. Remote Sensing, volume 3.

10) Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2010. Photogrammetric Processing of Image Data of the TRAMM Project. Internal Technical Report submitted to the IGT - ETH Zurich, Istanbul, October, 17 pages.

9) Springman, S., Askarinejad, A., Kienzler, P., Casini, F., Sperl, M., Bleiker, E., Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2010. The Ruedlingen monitoring and landslide experiment. D-BAUG Annual Report 2009, ETH Zurich, March 2010, pp. 26-31.

8) Akca, D., and Gruen, A., 2008. Photogrammetric Documentation of Alois Payer's Art Studio in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, April, 16 pages.

7) Akca, D., 2007. First processing results of the Avonmouth and Bournemouth test sites by the LS3D software. Technical Report to Ordnance Survey (UK), Zurich, September, 29 pages.

6) Akca, D., 2007. Accuracy concept for 3D building reconstruction. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, February, 11 pages.

5) Akca, D., and Zhang, L., 2006. Evaluation of Spatial Accuracy Potential of the SRTM X-SAR DEMs. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, February, 7 pages.

4) Akca, D., 2005. Co-registration of large volume laser scanner point clouds: The Pinchango Alto (Peru) data set. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, July, 21 pages.

3) Akca, D., 2004. Least squares 3D curve matching. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, March, 27 pages.

2) Akca, D., 2003. Generalized Procrustes Analysis and its applications in Photogrammetry. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, June, 23 pages.

1) Akca, D., 2003. Re-sequencing a historical palm leaf manuscript. Internal Technical Report at IGP - ETH, Zurich, May, 39 pages.

Updated on 05.01.2023