Urban modeling is the keystone for the development of many applications such as: 3D navigation, urban planning, scene modeling for the entertainment industry, etc. The technological challenge is to increase the productivity and the realism of urban modeling.

This particular project concerns: Perception and Automatic Extraction of Semantic from Data. In this context, the work of Jorge Hernandez consists in segmenting color images sand point clouds, in order to assist urban modeling. His PhD thesis has been completed at the Centre for Mathematical Morphology of MINES ParisTech, in partnership with Cap Digital Business Cluster TerraNumerica project (consortium of 19 private and public organisations).