Barazzetti Luigi

Luigi Barazzetti is a Professor of Modern Recording and Monitoring Techniques at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Surveying and a Ph.D. in Geomatics. He is also a faculty member of the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) Lab in Ottawa, Canada. He has participated in numerous national and international projects on heritage documentation and monitoring. His research focuses on photogrammetry, laser scanning, and computer vision for cultural heritage documentation, as well as sensor technologies for structural health monitoring. He is a member of ISPRS, CIPA Heritage Documentation, and ICOMOS, and has authored more than 150 scientific publications.

Career

2011 – PhD in Geomatics and Infrastructures – cum laude. Thesis title: “Automatic tie point extraction from markerless image blocks in close-range photogrammetry”.

Research

Main research activities are based around photogrammetry from different platforms (satellite, aerial, drone, terrestrial), laser scanning (aerial and terrestrial), and computer vision. Acquisition, processing and visualization methods for structural health monitoring and vision metrology. Digital recording of historic buildings and sites.

Selected Publications

Barazzetti, L. Virtual Field Astronomy for Surveyors with Python: Real and Simulated Experiments Using Free Open-Source Planetarium Software. Journal of Surveying Engineering (ASCE), 151(3), art. no. 04025006, 2025.

Barazzetti, L. Spatio-temporal analysis of georeferenced time-series applied to structural monitoring. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 14(1), 163–188, 2024.

Rose, W., Barazzetti, L., Corda, K., Wong, L. Research and Development of a Photogrammetric Condition Monitoring Workflow to Improve Change Detection in Wall Paintings. Studies in Conservation, 67(S1), 235–244, 2022.

Cuca, B., Barazzetti, L. Damages from extreme flooding events to cultural heritage and landscapes: Water component estimation for Centa River (Albenga, Italy). Advances in Geosciences, 45, 389–395, 2018.

Scaioni, M., Barazzetti, L., Gianinetto, M. Multi-image robust alignment of medium-resolution satellite imagery. Remote Sensing, 10(12), art. no. 1969, 2018.

Barazzetti, L. Point cloud occlusion recovery with shallow feedforward neural networks. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 38, 605–619, 2018.

Barazzetti, L. Parametric as-built model generation of complex shapes from point clouds. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 30(3), 298–311, 2016.

Barazzetti, L. Sliver removal in object-based change detection from VHR satellite images. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 82(2), 161–168, 2016.

Grants, awards and Honours

“Werner Weber Award” for the full paper “Historic BIM in the Cloud” presented at EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus (2016). The award is given in memory of late Werner Weber as an acknowledge of his achievements as a former member of the EU Member States Expert Group on Digitalisation and e-Preservation in Cultural Heritage (MSEG).

Best Paper Award for the paper “Geometric Registration of Remotely Sensed Data with SAMIR”, Third Conference on Geoinformation of Environment (RSCY2015), March 16-19, Paphos, Cyprus.

Best Poster Award for a very significant contribution to Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation with the paper “Digital workflow for the conservation of Bahrain built heritage: the Sheik Isa Bin Ali house, presented at the CIPA 2019 conference, Ottawa, Canada.

Best Contribution Award with the paper “Historic Building Information modeling on site”, 3rd CAA-GR Conference “Spreading Excellence in Computer Applications for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage”, Lymassol, Cyprus (2018).