together with ISPRS Commission IV. It should be an objec- 
tive of the future President to integrate SDH and TC IV. 
It was also realised that the integration of image analysis 
and GIS is an important issue for data collection 
processes, in particular for GIS data revision. Up to now 
most of the image analysis strategies are data driven in a 
bottom up mode. Using existing GIS data this will 
strengthen the knowledge-driven approach, in top-down 
mode. It seems to be clear, that especially for GIS data 
revision processes the combination of top-down and bot- 
tom-up is the result for the future. 
Technical Commission IV started to integrate indoor map- 
ping capabilities offered by CAD and Facility Management 
Systems with 3D GIS. Therefore there is a need to inter- 
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face Computer Aided Facility Management Systems with 
3D city models to make our real world also virtually acces- 
sible. ISPRS can play an active part here. Preparations 
have been made to use high resolution satellite imagery 
producing these products, but unfortunately through the 
lack of data not that much experience could gained. This 
hopefully will change in near future. 
TC IV started also with models for spatial-temporal data 
management and analysis to consider time as an additional 
co-ordinate. It became clear that the work should be contin- 
ued to study the behaviour of spatial objects according to its 
geometry, topology and semantics. TC IV brought out a book 
for the documentation of existing global databases, this 
book is a valuable source for all those scientists and practi- 
tioners who are concerned with environmental monitoring. 
  
Technical Commission V: Close-range Techniques and Machine Vision 
by Commission V President: Hirofumi Chikatsu, Tokyo Denki University, Japan 
and Commission V Secretary: Eihan Shimizu, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Introduction 
The last four years (1996-2000) have witnessed rapid 
progress of Commission V as close-range digital pho- 
togrammetry, inclusive of real-time imaging applications, 
has become a more widely adopted measurement tool in 
fields such as industrial metrology, machine and robot 
vision, medical and sports science, archaeology, architec- 
ture and construction management. Over this period, 
Commission V has pursued the goal of becoming a focal 
point, within both the ISPRS and associated organisations, 
for the communication of ideas and research progress in 
interdisciplinary areas where close-range imaging is used 
for 3D scene reconstruction and visualisation. 
In order to pursue its scientific agenda, Commission V 
established seven Working Groups (WGs): 
WG 1. Close-Range Imaging and Metrology 
WG 2. Integration of Photogrammetric Systems 
with CAD/CAM 
WG 3. Scene Modelling for Visualisation and 
Virtual Reality 
WG 4. Human Motion and Medical Image Analysis 
WG 5. World Cultural Heritage 
IWG V/III. Image Sequence Analysis 
SIG. Special Interest Group on *Animation" 
Main Accomplishments and Further Activities 
In order to steer Commission V to success as an interdis- 
ciplinary commission, the following symposia and work- 
shops, which were all either organised or co-organised by 
the Commission, were held during the past four years: 
1. International Symposium on Real-time Imaging and 
Dynamic Analysis, Hakodate/Japan, June 2nd-5th, 1998 
2. Videometrics VI, San Jose/USA, January 28th-29th, 1999 
3. International Workshop on Mobile Mapping Technology, 
Bangkok/Thailand, April 21st-23rd, 1999 
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4. International Workshop on Photogrammetric Measure- 
ment, Object Modelling and Documentation in Archi- 
tecture and Industry, Thessaloniki/ Greece, July 6th- 
9th,1999 
9. Technical Meeting of the Coordinate Measurement 
Systems Committee, Seattle/USA, July 26th-30th, 
1999 
6. International Workshop on Vision-based Techniques in 
Visualisation and Animation, Onuma/ Japan, October 
14th-16th, 1999 
It was noticeable at these events that there were many inter- 
esting new developments and applications in on-line and 
off-line multi-image and multi-sensor system configurations, 
laser scanning, virtual reality and computer animation. To 
further the aim of ensuring that Commission V remains 
closely associated with such new progress in close-range 
imaging, the following future conferences are being organ- 
ised by WGs under the auspices of Commission V: 
1. Commission V sessions at the XIXth ISPRS Congress, 
Amsterdam/The Netherlands, July 16th-23rd, 2000 
2. Videometrics and Optical Methods for 3D Shape Mea- 
surement VII, San Jose/USA, January 24th-26th, 2001 
3. International Workshop on Recreating the Past "Visual- 
isation and Animation of Cultural Heritage", Ayut- 
thaya/Thailand, February 26th- March 1st, 2001 
State of the Science and Technology 
Digital imaging and recording technology innovations over 
the past four-year reporting period have spanned a wide 
scientific spectrum, which has offered a significant oppor- 
tunity for Commission V to broaden its focus and become 
more interdisciplinary in its activities. In particular, recently 
developed laser scanning technology will contribute greatly 
to issues such as real-time data acquisition, visualisation, 
3D modelling and scene reconstruction. This example is 
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