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Dr Abdoulaye Diakite

Dr Abdoulaye Diakite

Casual Academic
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Built Environment

Member of the Geospatial, Research, Innovation and Development (GRID) lab of UNSW, I am leading the Digital Twins R&D with a focus on 3D indoor modelling and navigation, and BIM/GIS integration. With an MSc in Computer Sciences obtained in 2012 from the University of Burgundy (France), I completed my PhD in computational geometry in 2015 at the LIRIS lab (University of Lyon 1, France). Then I joined the 3D Geoinformation of  Delft University of Technology (2015-2018), where I worked on the SIMs3D project to provide emergency responders with smart indoor navigation systems, and the GeoBIM project, looking at defining best practices for integrating BIM and GIS models to support powerful spatial analysis. As an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), I am co-leading the development of the IndoorGML standard.
E-mail
a.diakite@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Abou Diakité A; Zlatanova S, 2019, 'Valid Space Description in BIM for 3D Indoor Navigation', in Architecture and Design, IGI Global, pp. 688 - 706, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7314-2.ch025
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Aleksandrov M; Zlatanova S; Heslop DJ; Diakite A, 2024, 'BIM-based connectivity graph and voxels classification for pedestrian-hazard interaction', Journal of Spatial Science, 69, pp. 699 - 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2023.2281923
    Journal articles | 2024
    Gorte B; Zlatanova S; Pilouk M; Diakite A; Barton J, 2024, '3D Data Integration in the Voxel Domain', ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4-2024, pp. 133 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-x-4-2024-133-2024
    Journal articles | 2022
    Diakite AA; Ng L; Barton J; Rigby M; Williams K; Barr S; Zlatanova S, 2022, 'Liveable City Digital Twin: A Pilot Project for the City of Liverpool (NSW, AUSTRALIA)', ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 10, pp. 45 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W2-2022-45-2022
    Journal articles | 2022
    Yan J; Lee J; Zlatanova S; Diakité AA; Kim H; Diakite A, 2022, 'Navigation network derivation for QR code-based indoor pedestrian path planning', Transactions in GIS, 26, pp. 1240 - 1255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12912
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nikoohemat S; Diakité AA; Lehtola V; Zlatanova S; Vosselman G, 2021, 'Consistency grammar for 3D indoor model checking', Transactions in GIS, 25, pp. 189 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12686
    Journal articles | 2021
    Yan J; Zlatanova S; Diakité A, 2021, 'A unified 3D space-based navigation model for seamless navigation in indoor and outdoor', International Journal of Digital Earth, 14, pp. 985 - 1003, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2021.1913522
    Journal articles | 2020
    Diakite AA; Zlatanova S, 2020, 'Automatic geo-referencing of BIM in GIS environments using building footprints', Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101453
    Journal articles | 2020
    Li W; Zlatanova S; Diakite AA; Aleksandrov M; Yan J, 2020, 'Towards integrating heterogeneous data: A spatial DBMS solution from a CRC-LCL project in Australia', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9, pp. 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9020063
    Journal articles | 2020
    Nikoohemat S; Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Vosselman G, 2020, 'Indoor 3D reconstruction from point clouds for optimal routing in complex buildings to support disaster management', Automation in Construction, 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103109
    Journal articles | 2020
    Yan J; Diakite A; Zlatanova S; Aleksandrov M, 2020, 'Finding Boundaries of Outdoor for 3D Space-based Navigation', Transactions in GIS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/TGIS.12613
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zlatanova S; Yan J; Wang Y; Diakité A; Isikdag U; Sithole G; Barton J; Diakite A, 2020, 'Spaces in spatial science and urban applications—state of the art review', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9, pp. 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9010058
    Journal articles | 2019
    Staats BR; Diakité AA; Voûte RL; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2019, 'Detection of doors in a voxel model, derived from a point cloud and its scanner trajectory, to improve the segmentation of the walkable space', International Journal of Urban Sciences, 23, pp. 369 - 390, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2018.1553685
    Journal articles | 2019
    Yan J; Diakite A; Zlatanova S, 2019, 'A Generic Space Definition Framework to Support Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Navigation Systems', Transactions in GIS, 23, pp. 1273 - 1295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12574
    Journal articles | 2019
    Yan J; Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Aleksandrov M; Diakite A, 2019, 'Top-bounded spaces formed by the built environment for navigation systems', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8, pp. 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8050224
    Journal articles | 2018
    Diakité AA; Krijnen T; Ledoux H; Arroyo Ohori K; Stoter J, 2018, 'Integratie BIM- en GIS-data', GIS Magazine, pp. 21 - 25, https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:bb2497ea-382e-4c93-9ab7-c239706570c5
    Journal articles | 2018
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2018, 'Spatial subdivision of complex indoor environments for 3D indoor navigation', International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32, pp. 213 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2017.1376066
    Journal articles | 2018
    Fichtner FW; Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Voûte R; Diakite A, 2018, 'Semantic enrichment of octree structured point clouds for multi-story 3D pathfinding', Transactions in GIS, 22, pp. 233 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12308
    Journal articles | 2018
    Li F; Zlatanova S; Koopman M; Bai X; Diakité A; Diakite A, 2018, 'Universal path planning for an indoor drone', Automation in Construction, 95, pp. 275 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.07.025
    Journal articles | 2018
    Ohori KA; Diakité A; Krijnen T; Ledoux H; Stoter J, 2018, 'Processing BIM and GIS models in practice: Experiences and recommendations from a GeoBIM project in The Netherlands', ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7080311
    Journal articles | 2016
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S, 2016, 'Valid space description in BIM for 3D indoor navigation', International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling (IJ3DIM), 5, pp. 1 - 17
  • Conference Papers | 2022
    Diakite AA; Díaz-Vilariño L; Biljecki F; Isikdag U; Simmons S; Li K; Zlatanova S, 2022, 'IFC2INDOORGML: AN OPEN-SOURCE TOOL FOR GENERATING INDOORGML FROM IFC', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, pp. 295 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2022-295-2022
    Reports | 2021
    Zlatanova S; Diakite A; Barton J; Nazarian N, 2021, Liveable City Digital Twin: Analytics for agile decision making - Work package 2
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Benitez Sandoval E; Li B; Diakite A; Zhao K; Oliver N; Bednarz T; Zlatanova S, 2020, 'A Visually Impaired User Experience using a 3D-Enhanced Facility Management System for Indoors Navigation', in ICMI, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Ultrech, Netherlands (online), pp. 92 - 96, presented at International Conference of Multimodal Interaction, Ultrech, Netherlands (online), 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425247
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Choy S; Bai YB; Zlatanova S; Diakite A; Rubinov E; Marshall C; Knight P; Riddell A; Rooke V; Woolf M; Kishi N; Kogure S, 2020, 'Australia-Japan QZSS emergency warning service trial project', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, pp. 21 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-3-W1-2020-21-2020
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Alattas AFM; Li KJ, 2020, 'Towards indoorgml 2.0: Updates and case study illustrations', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, pp. 337 - 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2020-337-2020
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Sarmiento A; Diakité AA, 2020, 'INTEGRATION of IOT SENSORS to 3D INDOOR MODELS with INDOORGML', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, pp. 135 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIV-4-W1-2020-135-2020
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Yan J; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2020, 'TWO NEW PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION PATH OPTIONS BASED ON SEMI-INDOOR SPACE', in Wong K; Ellul C; Morley J; Home R; Kalantari M (eds.), ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus Publications, UCL, London, United Kingdom, pp. 175 - 182, presented at ISPRS TC IV 3rd BIM/GIS Integration Workshop and 15th 3D GeoInfo Conference 2020, UCL, London, United Kingdom, 08 September 2020 - 11 September 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-VI-4-W1-2020-175-2020
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Yan J; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2020, 'TWO NEW PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION PATH OPTIONS BASED ON SEMI-INDOOR SPACE', presented at 3D GeoInfo 2020, UCL, 07 September 2020 - 11 September 2020
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Aleksandrov M; Diakite A; Yan J; Li W; Zlatanova S, 2019, 'SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGEMENT OF BIM, 3D GIS AND SENSORS DATA', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus Publications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 3 - 10, presented at 4th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 01 October 2019 - 03 October 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W9-3-2019
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Li W; Zlatanova S; Yan J; Diakite A; Aleksandrov M, 2019, 'A Geo-Database Solution for the Management and Analysis of Building Model with Multi-Source Data Fusion', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, Copernicus Publications, Changsha, China, pp. 55 - 63, presented at ISPRS and GEO Workshop on Geospatially-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda, Changsha, China, 19 November 2019 - 20 November 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W20-55-2019
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Nikoohemat S; Diakité A; Zlatanova S; Vosselman G, 2019, 'INDOOR 3D MODELING and FLEXIBLE SPACE SUBDIVISION from POINT CLOUDS', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands, pp. 285 - 292, presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019, 10–14 June 2019, Enschede, The Netherlands, Enschede, The Netherlands, 10 June 2019 - 14 June 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W5-285-2019
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Yan J; Zlatanova S; Aleksandrov M; Diakite A; Pettit C, 2019, 'Integration of 3D objects and Terrain for 3D Modelling Supporting the Digital Twin', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus Publications, Singapore, pp. 147 - 154, presented at 14th 3D GeoInfo Conference 2019, Singapore, 24 September 2019 - 27 September 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W8-147-2019
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Yan J; Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2018, 'An extraction approach of the top-bounded space formed by buildings for pedestrian navigation', in Zlatanova S; Dragicevic S; Sithole G (eds.), ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus Publications, Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 247 - 254, presented at ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “3D Spatial Information Science – The Engine of Chang", Delft, The Netherlands, 01 October 2018 - 05 October 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-247-2018
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Zlatanova S; Diakite A; Yan J, 2018, 'Developing a database for the LADM-IndoorGML model', in Oosterom P; Dubbelink D (ed.), Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on 3D Cadastres, FIG, Delft, pp. 261 - 277, presented at 3D Cadastres, Delft, 02 October 2018 - 04 October 2018, http://www.gdmc.nl/3DCadastres/workshop2018/programme/Workshop2018_14.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S; Li KJ; Diakite A, 2017, 'ABOUT the SUBDIVISION of INDOOR SPACES in INDOORGML', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus Publications, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 41 - 48, presented at 12th 3D Geoinfo Conference 2017, Melbourne, Australia, 26 October 2017 - 27 October 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W5-41-2017
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Díaz-Vilariño L; Verbree E; Zlatanova S; Diakité A; Diakite A, 2017, 'Indoor modelling from SLAM-based laser scanner: Door detection to envelope reconstruction', in International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, Copernicus Publications, Wuhan, China, pp. 345 - 352, presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017, Wuhan, China, 18 September 2017 - 22 September 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-345-2017
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Ohori KA; Biljecki F; Diakité A; Krijnen T; Ledoux H; Stoter J, 2017, 'TOWARDS AN INTEGRATION of GIS and BIM DATA: WHAT ARE the GEOMETRIC and TOPOLOGICAL ISSUES?', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W5-1-2017
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Staats BR; Diakité AA; Voûte RL; Zlatanova S, 2017, 'AUTOMATIC GENERATION of INDOOR NAVIGABLE SPACE USING A POINT CLOUD and ITS SCANNER TRAJECTORY', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Wuhan, China, pp. 393 - 400, presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017, Wuhan, China, 18 September 2017 - 22 September 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W4-393-2017
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Diakite AA; Zlatanova S, 2016, 'FIRST EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TANGO TABLET FOR INDOOR SCANNING', in Halounova L; Safar V; Jiang J; Olesovska H; Dvoracek P; Holland D; Seredovich VA; Muller JP; Rao EPR; Veenendaal B; Mu L; Zlatanova S; Oberst J; Yang CP; Stylianidis YBS; Vozenilek V; Vondrakova A; Gartner G; Remondino F; Doytsher Y; Percivall G; Schreier G; Dowman I; Streilein A; Ernst J (eds.), XXIII ISPRS CONGRESS, COMMISSION IV, COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague, pp. 67 - 72, presented at 23rd ISPRS Congress, CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague, 12 July 2016 - 19 July 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-III-4-67-2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S, 2016, 'Extraction of the 3D Free Space From Building Models for Indoor Navigation', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus GmbH, pp. 241 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W1-241-2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Diakité AA; Zlatanova S, 2016, 'FIRST EXPERIMENTS with the TANGO TABLET for INDOOR SCANNING', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, pp. 67 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-III-4-67-2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Gorszczyk B; Damiand G; Servigne S; Diakité AA; Gesquière G, 2016, 'An automatic comparison approach to detect errors on 3D city models', in Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, UDMV2016, pp. 25 - 30
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Rook M; Biljecki F; Diakité AA, 2016, 'Towards automatic semantic labelling of 3D city models', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus GmbH, pp. 23 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W1-23-2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Sirmacek B; Shen Y; Lindenbergh R; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2016, 'COMPARISON OF ZEB1 AND LEICA C10 INDOOR LASER SCANNING POINT CLOUDS', in Halounova L; Safar V; Toth CK; Karas J; Huadong G; Haala N; Habib A; Reinartz P; Tang X; Li J; Armenakis C; Grenzdorffer G; LeRoux P; Stylianidis S; Blasi R; Menard M; Dufourmount H; Li Z (eds.), XXIII ISPRS CONGRESS, COMMISSION I, COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH, CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague, pp. 143 - 149, presented at 23rd ISPRS Congress, CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague, 12 July 2016 - 19 July 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-III-1-143-2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Sirmacek B; Shen Y; Lindenbergh R; Zlatanova S; Diakite A, 2016, 'COMPARISON of ZEB1 and LEICA C10 INDOOR LASER SCANNING POINT CLOUDS', in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, pp. 143 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-III-1-143-2016
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Horna S; Damiand G; Diakité A; Meneveaux D, 2015, 'Combining geometry, topology and semantics for generic building description and simulations', in Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, UDMV 2015, pp. 13 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151343
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Diakite AA; Damiand G; Gesquiere G, 2014, 'Automatic semantic labelling of 3D buildings based on geometric and topological information', in 9th 3DGeoInfo Conference 2014 - Proceedings
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Diakité AA; Damiand G; Van Maercke D, 2014, 'Topological reconstruction of complex 3D buildings and automatic extraction of levels of detail', in Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, UDMV 2014 - Proceedings, pp. 25 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141074

My research interest covers: Digital Twins, 3D modelling and reconstruction (of buildings and architectural elements), 3D indoor navigation, Geospatial analysis, BIM/GIS integration and computational geometry.