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Internship Students Industrial Meeting Experience

Internship Students Industrial Meeting Experience

I brought my lab #internship #students to a meeting with a private company (industrial key players) today. This meeting aims to discuss our UTM research progress for our contract research awarded by the #industry.

The feedback received from the students is that this is a new experience for them, even though they are not directly involved in this contract research project.

My intention is that I want to make it clear to them that, in the industry, the works are not as “beautiful” or “smooth” as written in the university textbook. Don’t blame the industries, it’s you (future graduates) to make it “smooth” as it should like in the textbook.

Apart from that, the internship students also have the opportunity to meet their classmates who are also doing their internships in the same company. They look so happy as if they weren’t seen for a long time. I would say that #studentlife is a moment that is going to last forever. Cherish every moment of it.

#university #highereducation #academicresearch #research #gis #spatialanalysis #3dgis #studentinternship #pointcloud #lidarresearch #researchers

Student Internship Presentation

Usually it’s not a compulsory to make any presentation as an internship student. However, if you think about how important it is to make a progress presentation once a week, it will actually help students to improve their confidence and skills in communicating and presenting points to the public. Taking our little precious time to listen to this presentation may change them in the future.

I urge firms or agencies that appoint/hire internship students, educate them to be a career ready person. Don’t because they are internship students, they are only burdened with technical work without focusing on their soft skills development before getting into the industries. Do not blame the students or their institutions if they cant do the tasks. They are still in training.

I would say treat them as internships students and not as “backbenchers”.

#university #highereducation #students #graduate #studentinternship #internship #3dgis

Student Internship

STUDENT INTERNSHIP

Received three students to undergo practical training at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s 3DGIS Research Lab.

Whilst ensures of the new norm, the duty-report of these internship students is made online. Our Research Officer QA41 (RO) provided an online 3D spatial modelling training on the first day of this internship.

Although these internship students receive a monthly allowance through the use of laboratory research funds, it is hoped that they will also be able to gain additional knowledge in the conduct of basic research as researchers.

Let us all pray that this pandemic will be lowered so that students can carry out research projects in the laboratory.

#studentinternship #gis #3dgis #3dmodeling #3dprinting #academicresearch #researchers #covid19research

“Sharing do Caring”

“Sharing do Caring”

Had the opportunity to share my experience on database architecture as well as the value of metadata for successful 3D asset database management systems. This is an ongoing Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) research project at Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying. The implementation will be tested at Johor Bahru City Council to perform their daily asset management tasks.

Apart from that, I also had the opportunity to express my views and discuss how GIS can help to replace the existing implementation of land tax assessment for strata multi-level units (i.e. shopping lot in mall, apartments, etc.). May this help to ease the tasks of Land Office.

#3DGIS #database #architecture #assetsmanagement #metadata #spatialdatabase

International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES)

Our third published international journal for this year 2020. It’s a Web of Science (WoS) indexed journal with an extensive peer review stages:

Title: “3D Topological Validation of Compact Abstract Cell Complexes (CACC) Data Structure for Buildings in CityGML”

Journal: International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES)

Volume: Vol. 7, No 2, 2020

DOI: 10.11113/ijbes.v7.n2.457

Link: https://ijbes.utm.my/index.php/ijbes/article/download/457/201

Feel free to read and circulate among your research colleagues.

#topology #data #dataanalytics #datamanagement #analytics #bigdata #geomarketing #3d #constellation #datascience #classified #gis  #journal  #datastructure

3D MESH AND POINT CLOUDS (Part 2)

This post is related with my previous post regarding eyescloud3d by eCapture3D lead by Miguel González Cuétara, Guillermo De Miguel Retortillo and their team.

This time, I’m using series of 51 aerial photos taken from DJI Phantom 4 with the altitude of 150m. The images are taken at our Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Johor Bahru campus.

In less than 30 minutes, the outputs are ready. Bare in mind that, there’s no use of mighty computing machine to process this (cloud processing), no prior knowledge needed, no Omega Phi Kappa, just photos and results. There you go. Less hassle. Interesting. Enjoy the campus view!

3D Mesh and Point Cloud Generation

I’m amazed with the achievements from eCapture Research and Development SL. Today I’ve generated point clouds and 3D mesh from series of 49 photos taken via mobile vehicle. I’ve tested two products.

The first product, I call it as product A, it requires users with prior knowledge about sensor size, camera focal length, coordinate projection, etc. Experience in handling spatial data is an advantage. Took almost 30 minutes processing time and expensive computational cost (desktop based).

On the other hand, by using eyescloud3d I’ve managed to generate the model within 15 minutes (output as shown). And most importantly, no prior background knowledge needed.

Congratulations to Guillermo, Miguel and the team for your R&D. Fascinating.

Our lab at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) have 5 years MoU research collaboration with eCapture Research and Development SL. We have the privilege to conduct scientific research using their products. Students are eligible to utilize it, feel free to let me know if you’re interested.

The accuracy? You may read our following international publications:

1. DEVELOPMENT OF 3D CITY MODEL USING VIDEOGRAMMETRY TECHNIQUE
(https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W16/221/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W16-221-2019.pdf)

2. 3D MODEL FOR INDOOR SPACES USING DEPTH SENSOR.
(https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W16/471/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W16-471-2019.pdf)

3. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS CAMERA INPUT FOR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
(https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W16/63/2019/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W16-63-2019.pdf)

Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) Awards

Congratulations to Tang Siew Khing in winning 3 national level awards by the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM). She presented her Final Year Project (FYP) in a form of research paper last month. The awards are:

  1. Gold Award in Best Paper Category
  2. Innovative Paper Award
  3. Potential Research Paper Award

Thank you to Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) Geomatic and Land Surveying (GLS) Division, anonymous Jurors, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). This awards means a world to my Sarawakian student in doing her FYP dissertation.

To RISM, keep it up with this good event. This will values our profession growth in the country 👍🏻

and again, Congratulations Tang!!!