Raphael Sulzer

About Me

I am a researcher in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel, where I work on the Digital Originals in 3D project. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Titane team at Inria Sophia Antipolis and a research engineer at LuxCarta Technology. I obtained my PhD titled “Learning Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds in the Wild” at IGN and Imagine. During my PhD, I lectured on the topics of photogrammetry and GIS at ENSG. I also hold an MSc in Geomatics from TU Delft and a BSc in Geodesy from the University of Stuttgart.

News

• [Aug. 2026] I join the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel as a researcher in the Digital Originals in 3D project
• [Jul. 2026] An extended version of our multimodal building vectorization paper is accepted in ISPRS P&RS
• [Jan. 2026] Our paper about multimodal building vectorization is accepted at ISPRS 2026 in Toronto
• [Dec. 2025] LuxCarta contributes to the research and production of JUNN, the French national digital twin program
• [Nov. 2024] Our survey and benchmark for surface reconstruction is accepted in TPAMI
• [Jul. 2024] Our low-poly surface and volume modeling paper is accepted at ECCV 2024 in Milan
• [Apr. 2024] Our SimpliCity paper is accepted at CVPR Workshop on Urban Scene Modeling in Seattle

Research Interests

• Computer Vision: 3D Scene Understanding and Reconstruction
• Geographic Information Systems: 2D and 3D Urban Modeling
• Geometry Processing: Arrangements, Triangulations, Surface and Volume Modeling
• Machine Learning: Geometry-Aware Learning
• Remote Sensing: Point Cloud, Aerial and Satellite Image Processing

Publications

* indicates equal contribution

Services

Conference Reviewing

• ACM SIGGRAPH
• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Journal Reviewing

• ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
• Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)

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