It is with great pride and congratulations that we present the winners of the 2025 Anthony Thorpe Medal, Digital Roads PhD student Diana Davletshina, MSCA Future Roads Fellow Dr Varun Kumar Reja, and Digital Roads of the Future Principal Investigator, Prof Ioannis Brilakis, for the paper;
Davletshina, D., Reja, V. K., and Brilakis, I. (2024) ”Automating Construction of Road Digital Twin Geometry Using Context and Location Aware Segmentation”, Automation in Construction, 168, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105795
The Thorpe Medal of the European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3) was instituted and endowed in 2018 in the honour of Prof Antony Thorpe, a pioneering professor in construction information technology and co-founder of COMIT the community for mobile computing in construction. The Medal recognises a paper that contributes to either practical or research aspects of engineering informatics disciplines in the built environment. The practical value of contribution and its impact on engineering informatics practice are key evaluation criteria.
The paper highlights include:
- Automatic construction of road digital twin geometry from point clouds.
- Context and location aware segmentation of challenging road furniture objects.
- Adaptable methodology based on prior domain-specific knowledge.
- Proposed method surpassed KITTI360 leader by +16.93% in semantic segmentation.
- This method achieves 91.7% mIoU in segmenting road furniture (Digital Roads dataset).