Publications and communications of Roland Billen

Articles in scientific journals with peer reviewing

Kharroubi, A., Ballouch, Z., Hajji, R., Yarroudh, A., & Billen, R. (09 April 2024). Multi-Context Point Cloud Dataset and Machine Learning for Railway Semantic Segmentation. Infrastructures, 9 (4), 71. doi:10.3390/infrastructures9040071

Tamort, A.* , Kharroubi, A.* , Hajji, R.* , & Billen, R.*. (08 March 2024). 3D CHANGE DETECTION FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF BUILDINGS IN 3D CITY MODELS. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVIII-4/W9-2024, 349-355. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w9-2024-349-2024
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Ballouch, Z., Hajji, R., Kharroubi, A., Poux, F., & Billen, R. (2024). Investigating Prior-Level Fusion Approaches for Enriched Semantic Segmentation of Urban LiDAR Point Clouds. Remote Sensing, 16 (2), 329. doi:10.3390/rs16020329

El Yamani, S., Hajji Rafika, & Billen, R. (25 August 2023). IFC-CityGML Data Integration for 3D Property Valuation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12, 351. doi:10.3390/ijgi12090351

Jeddoub, I., Nys, G.-A., Hajji, R., & Billen, R. (05 August 2023). Digital Twins for cities: Analyzing the gap between concepts and current implementations with a specific focus on data integration. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 122, 103440. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2023.103440

Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (2022). From consistency to flexibility: Handling spatial information schema thanks to a middleware in a 3D city modeling context. Transactions in GIS. doi:10.1111/tgis.13014

Kharroubi, A., Poux, F., Ballouch, Z., Hajji, R., & Billen, R. (17 October 2022). Three Dimensional Change Detection Using Point Clouds: A Review. Geomatics, 2 (4), 457-486. doi:10.3390/geomatics2040025

Ballouch, Z., Hajji, R., Poux, F., Kharroubi, A., & Billen, R. (16 July 2022). A Prior Level Fusion Approach for the Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds Using Deep Learning. Remote Sensing, 14 (14), 3415. doi:10.3390/rs14143415

Donnay, J.-P., & Billen, R. (2022). Itinéraires de géographes : de la géomorphologie à la géomatique. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 78 (1), 5-13. doi:10.25518/0770-7576.6708

Nys, G.-A., Dubois, C., Goffin, C., Hallot, P., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Treffer, M., & Billen, R. (2022). ÉVALUATION DE LA QUALITÉ DES GÉODONNÉES ET OPERATIONALISATION DE LA DIRECTIVE INSPIRE : RETOUR D'EXPERIENCE. BSGLg, 78 (1), 179 - 188. doi:10.25518/0770-7576.6698

Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (2021). From consistency to flexibility: A simplified database schema for the management of CityJSON 3D city models. Transactions in GIS. doi:10.1111/tgis.12807

El Yamani, S., Hajji, R., Nys, G.-A., Ettarid, M., & Billen, R. (05 March 2021). 3D Variables Requirements for Property Valuation Modeling Based on the Integration of BIM and CIM. Sustainability, 13 (2814). doi:10.3390/su13052814

Poux, F., Billen, R., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Lefebvre, P.-H., & Hallot, P. (07 October 2020). A Built Heritage Information System Based on Point Cloud Data: HIS-PC. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9 (10), 588. doi:10.3390/ijgi9100588

Nys, G.-A., Poux, F., & Billen, R. (31 August 2020). CityJSON Building Generation from Airborne LiDAR 3D Point Clouds. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9 (521). doi:10.3390/ijgi9090521

Poux, F., Valembois, Q., Mattes, C., Kobbelt, L., & Billen, R. (11 August 2020). Initial User-Centered Design of a Virtual Reality Heritage System: Applications for Digital Tourism. Remote Sensing, 12 (16), 2583. doi:10.3390/rs12162583

Neuville, R., Pouliot, J., & Billen, R. (10 July 2019). Identification of the Best 3D Viewpoint within the BIM Model: Application to Visual Tasks Related to Facility Management. Buildings, 9 (7), 167. doi:10.3390/buildings9070167

Poux, F., & Billen, R. (07 May 2019). Voxel-Based 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation: Unsupervised Geometric and Relationship Featuring vs Deep Learning Methods. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8 (5), 213. doi:10.3390/IJGI8050213

Neuville, R., Pouliot, J., Poux, F., & Billen, R. (23 January 2019). 3D Viewpoint Management and Navigation in Urban Planning: Application to the Exploratory Phase. Remote Sensing, 11 (3), 236. doi:10.3390/rs11030236

Billen, R., Binard, M., Cornet, Y., Hallot, P., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Warnant, R., & Sheeren, D. (2019). Un regard sur l’évolution de la géomatique : analyse de 4 décennies de recherche au sein du Département de Géographie de l’Université de Liège. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, (72), 11-32.

Deng, L., Jin, Y., Yan, L., Tesfamichael, S., Billen, R., Yao, Y., Yao, W., Chen, X., Fang, X., Wang, C., & Jing, X. (2019). Urban plant phenology monitoring: Expanding the functions of widespread surveillance cameras to nature rhythm understanding. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 15. doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2019.05.001

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (05 September 2018). 3D Point Cloud Semantic Modelling: Integrated Framework for Indoor Spaces and Furniture. Remote Sensing, 10 (9), 1412. doi:10.3390/rs10091412

Van Ruymbeke, M., Hallot, P., Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (July 2018). Implementation of multiple interpretation data model concepts in CIDOC CRM and compatible models. Virtual Archaeology Review, 9 (19), 50-65. doi:10.4995/var.2018.8884

Neuville, R., Pouliot, J., Poux, F., De Rudder, L., & Billen, R. (18 May 2018). A Formalized 3D Geovisualization Illustrated to Selectivity Purpose of Virtual 3D City Model. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7 (5). doi:10.3390/ijgi7050194

Agnello, A., Carré, C., Billen, R., Leyh, B., De Pauw, E., & Damblon, C. (2018). ULg Spectra: An Interactive Software Tool To Improve Undergraduate Students’ Structural Analysis Skills. Journal of Chemical Education, 95, 276-280. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00712

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Van Wersch, L., Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (30 September 2017). 3D Point Clouds in Archaeology: Advances in Acquisition, Processing and Knowledge Integration Applied to Quasi-Planar Objects. Geosciences, 7 (4), 96. doi:10.3390/geosciences7040096

Hajji, R., & Billen, R. (September 2016). Collaborative 3D Modeling: Conceptual and Technical Issues. International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling, 5 (3), 47-67. doi:10.4018/IJ3DIM.2016070104

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (12 May 2016). Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Identity: States of Existence and Presence. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5 (62). doi:10.3390/ijgi5050062

Billen, R., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., Métral, C., Falquet, G., Zlatanova, S., & Marina, O. (2016). Challenges of Semantic 3D City Models: A Contribution of the COST Research Action TU0801. International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling, 4 (2), 68-76. doi:10.4018/IJ3DIM.2015040106

Campos, M., Tommaselli, A., Ivanova, I., & Billen, R. (12 October 2015). Data Product Specification Proposal for Architectural Heritage Documentation with Photogrammetric Techniques: A Case Study in Brazil. Remote Sensing, 7 (10), 13337-13363. doi:10.3390/rs71013337

Hallot, P., Stewart, K., & Billen, R. (February 2015). Les états spatio-temporels d'existence et de présence. Revue Internationale de Géomatique, 25 (2), 173-196.

Poux, F., Hallot, P., Jonlet, B., Carré, C., & Billen, R. (December 2014). Segmentation semi-automatique pour le traitement de données 3D denses : application au patrimoine architectural. XYZ: la Revue de l'Association Française de Topographie, 141 (36), 69-75.

Van Ruymbeke, M., Carré, C., & Billen, R. (2012). L'existant et l'ayant existé. Documenter le patrimoine dans la diachronie. Thema & Collecta, (2), 43 - 51.

Clementini, E., Billen, R., & Santic, M. (2011). Errata Corrige on “Modeling and Computing Ternary Projective Relations Between Regions”. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 7-15. doi:10.1109/TKDE.2011.239

Laube, P., Gottfried, B., Klippel, A., Billen, R., & Van de Weghe, N. (2011). Report on the first workshop on Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA10). Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2 (2011), 127-133. doi:10.5311/JOSIS.2011.2.8

Clementini, E., Skiadopoulos, S., Billen, R., & Tarquini, F. (February 2010). A Reasoning System of Ternary Projective Relations. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22 (2), 161-178. doi:10.1109/TKDE.2009.79

Metral, C., Billen, R., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (February 2010). Ontology-based approaches for improving the interoperability between 3D urban models. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 15, 169-184.

Teller, J., Billen, R., & Cutting-Decelle, A.-F. (February 2010). Bringing Urban Ontologies into Practice. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 15.

Metral, C., Billen, R., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (2010). Ontology-based approaches for improving the interoperability between 3D urban models. Formamente, 1-2 (V), 85-111.

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (10 October 2008). Life and motion configuration: a basis for spatio-temporal generalised reasoning model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5232/2008, 323-333. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87991-6_39

Billen, R., & Kurata, Y. (2008). Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5266/2008, 20-37. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87473-7_2

Billen, R., Laplanche, F., Zlatanova, S., & Emgard, L. (2008). Vers la création d’un méta-modèle générique de l’information spatiale 3D urbaine. XYZ: la Revue de l'Association Française de Topographie, 114 (1), 37-42.

Laplanche, F., Teller, J., & Billen, R. (2008). Méthode de relevé rapide de scènes urbaines tridimensionnelles dans le cadre d’évaluations environnementales stratégiques. Revue Internationale de Géomatique, 18(2), 147-167. doi:10.3166/geo.18.147-167

Clementini, E., & Billen, R. (June 2006). Modeling and computing ternary projective relations between regions. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18 (6), 799-814. doi:10.1109/TKDE.2006.102

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2006). Projective relations in a 3D environment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4197, 18-32. doi:10.1007/11863939_2

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2005). Semantics of Collinearity Among Regions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1066-1076. doi:10.1007/11575863_129

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2004). Etude des caractéristiques projectives des objets spatiaux et de leurs relations. Revue Internationale de Géomatique, 14 (2), 145-165.

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2004). A model for ternary projective relations between regions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 310-328. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24741-8_19

Billen, R., & Zlatanova, S. (2003). Conceptual issues in 3D Urban GIS. GIM International, 17 (1), 33-35.

Billen, R., & Zlatanova, S. (2003). 3D spatial relationships model: a useful concept for 3D cadastre? Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 27 (4), 411-425. doi:10.1016/S0198-9715(02)00040-6

Pantazis, D., Cornélis, B., Billen, R., & Sheeren, D. (January 2002). Establishment of a geographic data dictionnary : a case study of UrbIS 2 ©, the Brussels regional government GIS. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 26 (1), 3-17. doi:10.1016/S0198-9715(01)00012-6

Scientific conferences in universities or research centers

Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (22 September 2020). New 3D standards and perspectives [Paper presentation]. AM/FM Belux Webinars, Liège, Belgium.

Billen, R. (27 November 2015). Le point sur les techniques de levé [Paper presentation]. "Des levés, pourquoi ?" Levés et représentations du patrimoine, le visible et l'invisible, Namur, Belgium.

Billen, R., Van Ruymbeke, M., & Carré, C. (27 November 2015). Virtual Leodium: un exemple de gestion spatio-temporelle de données patrimoniales [Paper presentation]. "Des levés, pourquoi ?" Levés et représentations du patrimoine, le visible et l'invisible, Namur, Belgium.

Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Jeunejean, A., Vandervreken, A., Boulanger, C., Lefebvre, P.-H., Michel, B., Billen, R., & Leclercq, P. (24 May 2013). SpatioData: a platform for building information management [Paper presentation]. 5th Belgian Geographical Days, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Scientific congresses and symposiums

Published communications

Van Ruymbeke, M., Nofal, E., & Billen, R. (2022). 3D Digital Heritage and Historical Storytelling: Outcomes from the Interreg EMR Terra Mosana Project. In M. Rauterberg (Ed.), Culture and Computing - 10th International Conference, C and C 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings (pp. 262-276). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05434-1_17

Nys, G.-A., Kharroubi, A., Poux, F., & Billen, R. (30 June 2021). An extension of CityJSON to support point clouds. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-B4-2021, 301-306. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2021-301-2021

Kharroubi, A., Van Wersch, L., Billen, R., & Poux, F. (17 June 2021). TESSERAE3D: A benchmark for tesserae semantic segmentation in 3D point clouds. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, V-2-2021, 121–128. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-V-2-2021-121-2021

Neuville, R., Jacynthe, P., & Billen, R. (03 September 2020). 3D Viewpoint Optimization of Topological Relationships: Application to 3D Cadastre for Visual Easement Validation. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, VI-4/W1-2020, 135-142. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-VI-4-W1-2020-135-2020

Kharroubi, A., Billen, R., & Poux, F. (12 August 2020). MARKER-LESS MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION FOR MASSIVE 3D POINT CLOUDS AND SEMANTICS. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII (B2), 255–261. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-255-2020

Nys, G.-A., Billen, R., & Poux, F. (2020). Automatic 3D Buildings Compact Reconstruction from LiDAR point clouds. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, (XLIII-B2-2020), 473-478. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-473-2020

Kharroubi, A., Hajji, R., Billen, R., & Poux, F. (29 November 2019). CLASSIFICATION AND INTEGRATION OF MASSIVE 3D POINTS CLOUDS IN A VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) ENVIRONMENT. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2 (W17), 165-171. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W17-165-2019

Tabkha, A., Hajji, R., Billen, R., & Poux, F. (29 November 2019). Semantic enrichment of point cloud by automatic extraction and enhancement of 360° panoramas. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2 (W17), 355-362. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W17-355-2019

Nys, G.-A., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (05 June 2019). A Semantic Retrieval System for Remote Sensing Web Platforms. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII-2 (W13), 1593-1599. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1593-2019

Nys, G.-A., Van Ruymbeke, M., & Billen, R. (13 October 2018). Spatio-temporal reasoning in CIDOC CRM: an hybrid ontology with GeoSPARQL and OWL-Time. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2230.

Nys, G.-A., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (19 September 2018). TOWARDS AN ONTOLOGY FOR THE STRUCTURING OF REMOTE SENSING OPERATIONS SHARED BY DIFFERENT PROCESSING CHAINS. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLII (4), 483-490. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-483-2018

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (2018). States of knowledge: a basis for spatio-temporal model of cultural heritage information. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., Jonlet, B., Delye, E., Hoffsummer, P., & Billen, R. (2018). An Analytical Framework for Classifying Software Tools and Systems Dealing with Cultural Heritage Spatio-Temporal Information. In P. Fogliaroni, A. Ballatore, ... E. Clementini (Eds.), Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017) (pp. 325-337). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_50

Neuville, R., Pouliot, J., Poux, F., Hallot, P., De Rudder, L., & Billen, R. (26 October 2017). TOWARDS A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR 3D VISUALISATION: APPLICATION TO SELECTIVITY PURPOSE OF SINGLE OBJECT IN A 3D CITY SCENE. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, IV-4/W5, 91-97. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W5-91-2017

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (26 October 2017). MODEL FOR REASONING FROM SEMANTICALLY RICH POINT CLOUD DATA. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, IV-4/W5, 107-115. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-4-W5-107-2017

Van Ruymbeke, M., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (17 August 2017). Enhancing CIDOC - CRM and compatible models with the concept of multiple interpretation. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-2/W2, 287-294. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-287-2017

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (16 August 2017). POINT CLOUD CLASSIFICATION OF TESSERAE FROM TERRESTRIAL LASER DATA COMBINED WITH DENSE IMAGE MATCHING FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION. International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, IV-2/W2, 203-211. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W2-203-2017

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Hallot, P., Van Wersch, L., Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., & Billen, R. (2017). DIGITAL INVESTIGATIONS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SMART POINT CLOUD: A REAL TIME WEB-BASED PLATFORM TO MANAGE THE VISUALISATION OF SEMANTICAL QUERIES. In Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Era (pp. 581-588). doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-W1-581-2017

Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., Jonlet, B., Hallot, P., Hoffsummer, P., & Billen, R. (2017). Multiple Uses of a 3D Point Cloud: the Castle of Franchimont (Province of Liège, Belgium). In J. Hayes, C. Ouimet, M. Santana Quintero, S. Fai, ... L. Smith (Eds.), ISPRS - The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. 26th International CIPA Symposium – Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation (pp. 475-481). doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W5-475-2017

Poux, F., Neuville, R., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (05 October 2016). SMART POINT CLOUD: DEFINITION AND REMAINING CHALLENGES. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, IV-2 (W1), 119-127. doi:10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-2-W1-1-2016

Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., Billen, R., Hoffsummer, P., Jonlet, B., Hallot, P., & Poux, F. (2016). CASTLE4D: An Archaeological Information System Based on 3D Point Clouds. In J. L. Lerma & M. Cabrelles (Eds.), Proceedings of the Arqueológica 2.0 - 8th International Congress on Archaeology, Computer Graphics, Cultural Heritage and Innovation : Universitat Politècnica de València, Valence 5-7 septembre 2016 (pp. 247-252). València, Spain: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. doi:10.4995/arqueologica8.2016.4210

Hallot, P., Stewart, K., & Billen, R. (2015). Who are my Visitors and Where do They Come From? An Analysis Based on Foursquare Check-ins and Place-based Semantics. Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation 2015, 55-58. doi:10.2312/udmv.20151350

Van Ruymbeke, M., Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Pfeiffer, M., & Billen, R. (2015). Towards an Archaeological Information System: Improving the Core Data Model. In F. Giligny, F. Djindjian, L. Costa, P. Moscati, ... S. Robert (Eds.), CAA 2014 21st century Archaeology : Concepts methods and tools : Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (pp. 245-253). Oxford, United Kingdom: Archaeopress.

Campos, M. B., De Moraes, M. A., Tommaselli, A. M. G., Ivánová, I., & Billen, R. (2014). ANÁLISE DE REQUISITOS PARA AVALIAÇÃO DE QUALIDADE GEOMÉTRICA NO REGISTRO DO PATRIMÔNIO ARQUITETÔNICO COM TÉCNICAS FOTOGRAMÉTRICAS. In C. A. Nome, A. L. de Magalhães Cordeiro, ... G. C. Rocha (Eds.), Anais ARQDOC 2014 INFORMAÇÃO E CONHECIMENTO PARA PRESERVAÇÃO (pp. 34-43). João Pessoa, Brazil: EDITORA DA UFPB.

Delfosse, V., Boulanger, C., Jeunejean, A., Carré, C., Billen, R., & Leclercq, P. (2014). SPATIODATA, un modèle de bâtiment non-constructif, collaboratif et multi-usage. In Actes du 6ème Séminaire de Conception Architecturale Numérique.

Ben Rajeb, S., Delfosse, V., Boulanger, C., Jeunejean, A., Carré, C., Billen, R., & Leclercq, P. (2014). Projet de recherche appliquée SpatioData : Spécification d’un système participatif pour la réutilisation de données sporadiques sur le bâtiment. In Proceedings du colloque 01'Design 9.

Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Billen, R., Jeunejean, A., Boulanger, C., Vandervreken, A., Lefèbvre, P.-H., Michel, B., & Leclercq, P. (2013). SPATIODATA, une approche alternative pour la gestion des données spatialisées relatives aux bâtiments. In Thibaud (Ed.), Gourmelon (Ed.), J. Gensel (Ed.), T. Joliveau (Ed.), C. Claramunt (Ed.), ... A. Ruas (Other coll.), SAGEO 2013 - Conférence internationale de Géomatique et d'analyse spatiale - ACTES de la Conférence.

Pfeiffer, M., Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (2013). Virtual Leodium: From an historical 3D city scale model to an archaeological information system. In Grussenmeyer (Ed.), ISPRS Annals – Volume II-5/W1, 2013. Strasbourg, France: Copernicus Publications.

Delfosse, V., Billen, R., & Leclercq, P. (2012). UML as a schema candidate for Graph databases. In NoSql Matters 2012.

Billen, R., Blain, P., Donneau, O., Habraken, S., Renotte, Y., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (2009). Virtual model of the city of Liège in the eighteen century - "Virtual Leodium". In J. Verly (Ed.), Proceedings of 3D Stereo MEDIA 2009, International 3D Stereo Film and Technology Festival (3D Stereo MEDIA), Liège, Belgium, 1-3 Dec. 2009.

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (2009). A pyramidal classification of ST relationship models. In N. Van de Weghe, B. Gottfried, P. De Maeyer, ... R. Billen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3th Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation.

Kasprzyk, J.-P., & Billen, R. (2009). A Geocodification for 3D objects terrestrial surveys. In T. Neutens, M. De Ryck, ... P. De Maeyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on 3D Geo-information (pp. 129-142).

Sainovic, I., & Billen, R. (2009). A way to improve management of underground utilities. In P. De Mayer, T. Neutens, ... M. De Ryck (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information (pp. 197-209).

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (2008). Life and Motion Configuration [Paper presentation]. 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 08), Park City, Utah, United States.

Van Ruymbeke, M., Tigny, V., De Bats, E., Garcia Moreno, R., & Billen, R. (2008). Development and use of a 4D GIS to support the conservation of the Calakmul site (Mexico, World Heritage Programme). In M. Ioannides (Ed.), VSMM 2008. Digital Heritage. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (pp. 117 - 121). Budapest, Hungary: Archaeolingua.

Van Ruymbeke, M., Tigny, V., De Bats, E., Garcia Moreno, R., & Billen, R. (2008). Development and use of a 4D GIS to support the conservation of the Calakmul site (Mexico, World Heritage Programme) [Paper presentation]. Advances on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, proceedings of the 1st International EARSeL Workshop CNR, Rome, September 30 - October 4, 2008, Rome, Italy.

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (2007). Spatio-temporal configurations of dynamics points in a 1D space. In B. Gottfired (Ed.), Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation BMI'07 (pp. 77-90). Germany: University of Bremen.

Billen, R. (2004). A projective approach to handle 3D spatial data. In Proceedings of GIS Research UK 2004 (pp. 237-240).

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2002). Projective and Affine Spatial Operators for Regions. In M. Joo Er, C. D'Attelis, ... M. Mastorakis (Eds.), Proceedings of WSEAS International Conferences MCBC, MCBE, ICAMSL, ICAI.

Laboury, D., Renotte, Y., Tilkens, B., Dominique, M., Da Col, A., Schumacker, B., Billen, R., Cornet, Y., & Cornélis, B. (2002). The OSIRIS Project (Optical Systems for Interferometric-Photogrammetric Relief Investigation and Scanning). Development of a device for 3D numerical recording of archaeological and epigraphic documents by optoelectronic processes. In W. Boehler (Ed.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE CIPA WG 6 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCANNING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE RECORDING.

Billen, R. (2000). Integration of 3D information in Urban GIS :a conceptual view. In Proceedings of the ISPRS 2000 (pp. 79-84).

Ewiak, I., Billen, R., Cornélis, B., Kaczynski, R., Donnay, J.-P., & Schumacker, B. (2000). Polish – Belgian co-operation. Development of an educational photogrammetric software. In Proceedings of the ISPRS 2000 (pp. 96-101).

Oral communications or posters

El Yamani, S., Billen, R., & Hajji, R. (02 July 2020). Towards a CityGML 3D Property Valuation Model based on BIM [Paper presentation]. Gist seminar, online, Netherlands.

Kasprzyk, J.-P., Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (18 October 2019). Integration of multiple sensor data into a 3D GIS for cities monitoring [Paper presentation]. Belgium Geographers Days, Ghent, Belgium.

Nys, G.-A., Kasprzyk, J.-P., Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (13 June 2019). A Semantic Retrieval System for Remote Sensing Web Platforms [Paper presentation]. ISPRS GeoSpatial Week 2019, Enschede, Netherlands.

Hallot, P., Van Ruymbeke, M., & Billen, R. (23 April 2019). TerraMosana, l’évolution de notre territoire racontée en 3D [Paper presentation]. Museohub 7ème édition - 3D & Patrimoine - Quels impacts sur la recherche ? Quelles modalités pour la médiation ?, St Omer, France.

Poux, F., Billen, R. (Other coll.), Hallot, P. (Other coll.), Luczfalvy Jancsó, A. (Other coll.), Neuville, R. (Other coll.), Nys, G.-A. (Other coll.), & Van Wersch, L. (Other coll.). (08 March 2018). Fusion de données lasergrammétriques/photogrammétriques et techniques d'extraction d'information archéologique sur base de nuage de points 3D [Paper presentation]. Patrimoine, modélisation numérique et systèmes d’acquisition d’informations : les enjeux actuels de la recherche, Lille, France.

Poux, F., Luczfalvy Jancsó, A. (Other coll.), Jonlet, B. (Other coll.), & Billen, R. (Other coll.). (08 March 2018). Numérisation 3D par lasergrammétrie et photogrammétrie: applications à la Réalité Virtuelle [Paper presentation]. Patrimoine, modélisation numérique et systèmes d’acquisition d’informations : les enjeux actuels de la recherche, Lille, France.

Billen, R., Van Ruymbeke, M., Pfeiffer, M., Carré, C., Jonlet, B., Poux, F., Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., Neuville, R., & Hallot, P. (20 April 2016). Vers des systèmes d’information archéologique : maquette virtuelle et nuages de points intelligents [Paper presentation]. Maquettes et restitutions, Lille, France.

Van Ruymbeke, M., Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Hallot, P., Pfeiffer, M., & Billen, R. (25 April 2014). Towards an Archaeological Information System: improving the core data model [Paper presentation]. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. CAA 2014, Paris, France.

Poux, F., & Billen, R. (06 September 2013). Semi-automatic and versatile point-cloud segmentation by region growing based on normal estimation [Poster presentation]. 14ème CIPA International Symposium, Strasbourg, France.

Poux, F., & Billen, R. (02 September 2013). Recording, Documentation and Cooperation for Cultural Heritage [Poster presentation]. CIPA13, Strasbourg, France.

Pfeiffer, M., Carré, C., Delfosse, V., & Billen, R. (14 May 2013). Virtual Leodium: Development of an archaeological information system, a case study on an historical 3D city scale model [Paper presentation]. AGILE 2013 - Workshop on INTEGRATING 4D, GIS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, Leuven, Belgium.

Billen, R., Blain, P., Carré, C., Habraken, S., Renotte, Y., Silva, V., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (13 April 2011). Virtual Leodium: Maquette virtuelle de la ville de Liège au dix-huitième siècle [Poster presentation]. Archéométrie 2011. Colloque du GMPCA, Liège, Belgium.

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (September 2008). Life and Motion Configuration [Poster presentation]. 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 08), Parc City, Utah, United States.

Hallot, P., & Billen, R. (September 2008). Generalized life and motion configurations reasoning model [Paper presentation]. International Worshop on Moving Objects : From Natural to Formal Language, Park City, Utah, United States.

Books

As author or co-author

Billen, R., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., Marina, O., de Almeida, J.-P., Caglioni, M., Falquet, G., Leduc, T., Métral, C., Moreau, G., Perret, J., Rabino, G., San Jose, R., Yatskiv, I., & Zlatanova, S. (2014). 3D City Models and urban information: current issues and perspectives. Les Ulis, France: edpsciences. doi:10.1051/TU0801/201400001

As editor or director

Billen, R., Binard, M., Hallot, P., & Donnay, J.-P. (Eds.). (2012). Actes de la Conférence internationale de Géomatique et Analyse Spatiale 2012. Liège, Belgium: Unité de Géomatique.

Teller, J., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., & Billen, R. (Eds.). (2009). Urban ontologies for an improved communication in urban development projects. Liège, Belgium: Les éditions de l'Université de Liège.

Book chapters and contributions to collective works

Billen, R., Jonlet, B., Luczfalvy Jancsó, A., Neuville, R., Nys, G.-A., Poux, F., Van Ruymbeke, M., Piavaux, M., & Hallot, P. (2018). La transition numérique dans le domaine du patrimoine bâti: un retour d'expériences. In Bulletin de la commission royale des monuments, sites et fouilles - Tome 30 (pp. 119-148). Commission royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles de la Région wallonne.

Billen, R., Zaki, C. E., Servières, M., Moreau, G., & Hallot, P. (2012). Developing an ontology of space: application to 3D city modeling. In T. Leduc, G. Moreau, ... R. Billen (Eds.), Usage, Usability, and Utility of 3D City models. Les Ulis, France: edp Sciences. doi:10.1051/3u3d/201202007

Hajji, R., & Billen, R. (2012). Towards a collaborative and interoperable 3D Building database – A case study in Walloon region. In T. Leduc, G. Moreau, ... R. Billen (Eds.), Usage, Usability, and Utility of 3D City Models. Les Ulis, France: edp Sciences. doi:10.1051/3u3d/201203004

Hervy, Billen, R., Laroche, F., Carré, C., Servières, M., Van Ruymbeke, M., & Tourre, V. (2012). A generalized approach for historical mock-up acquisition and data modelling: towards historically enriched 3D city models. In T. Leduc, G. Moreau, ... R. Billen (Eds.), Usage, Usability, and Utility of 3D City models. Les Ulis, France: edp Sciences. doi:10.1051/3u3d/201202009

Billen, R., Carré, C., Delfosse, V., Hervy, B., Laroche, F., Lefevre, D., Servières, M., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (2012). 3D historical models: the case studies of Liege and Nantes. In R. Billen, M. Caglioni, O. Marina, G. Rabino, ... R. San José (Eds.), 3D issues in urban and environmental systems. Bologna, Italy: Società Editrice Esculapio Srl.

Billen, R., Nogueras-Iso, J., López-Pellicer, F. J., & Vilches-Blázquez, L. M. (2011). Ontologies in the Geographic Information Sector. In G. Falquet, C. Métral, J. Teller, ... C. Tweed (Eds.), Ontologies in Urban Development Projects (pp. 83-103). London, United Kingdom: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-724-2_6

Metral, C., Billen, R., Cutting-Decelle, A.-F., & Van Ruymbeke, M. (2009). Ontology-based Models for improving the interoperability of 3D urban information. In J. Teller, R. Billen, ... A.-F. Cutting-Decelle (Eds.), Urban Ontologies for an improved communication in urban development projects, Proceedings of the Final Conference of the Cost action C21- Towntology (pp. 69 -84). Liège, Belgium: Les Editions de l'Université de Liège.

Billen, R., & Van de Weghe, N. (2009). Qualitative spatial reasoning. In N. Thrift & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography (pp. 12-18). Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00069-9

Chaidron, C., Billen, R., & Teller, J. (2007). Investigating a Bottom-up Approach for Extracting Ontologies from Urban Databases. In J. Teller, J. Lee, ... C. Roussey (Eds.), Ontologies for Urban Development (pp. 131-141). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71976-2_12

Drummond, J., Joao, E., & Billen, R. (2007). Current and Future Trends in Dynamic and Mobile GIS. In J. Drummond, R. Billen, E. Joao, ... D. Forrest, Dynamic and Mobile GIS: Investigating Changes in Space and Time (pp. 285-295). Taylor & Francis.

Billen, R., & Clementini, E. (2004). Introducing a reasoning system based on ternary projective relationships. In P. Fisher (Ed.), Developments in Spatial Data Handling (pp. 381-394). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Billen, R., Zlatanova, S., Mathonet, P., & Boniver, F. (2002). The Dimensional Model : a framework to distinguish spatial relationships. In D. Richardson & P. Van oosterom (Eds.), Advances in Spatial Data Handling (pp. 285-298). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

Cornélis, B., & Billen, R. (2001). La cartographie des risques et les risques de la cartographie. In P. Hupet (Ed.), Risque et systèmes complexes : les enjeux de la communication (pp. 207-222). P.I.E. – Peter Lang.

Cartographic materials

Kasprzyk, J.-P., Binard, M., Nys, G.-A., & Billen, R. (2020). Accessibilité des points de collecte de tests salivaires COVID-19 par les maisons de repos wallonnes. ULiège.

Hallot, P., Schenke, C., & Billen, R. (2012). Carte 3D des murs supportant les entraits de l'église St Jean, Collégiale d'Amay et Abbaye de Floreffe, Belgique. ULg.

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Billen, R. (2002). Nouvelle perception de la spatialité des objets et de leurs relations. Développement d’une modélisation tridimensionnelle de l’information spatiale [Doctoral thesis, Université de Liège Faculté des Sciences]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/20255

Expert reports

Ballouch, Z., Billen, R., & Kasprzyk, J.-P. (2024). OBTENTION D’OBJETS SÉMANTIQUES 3D POUR LES APPLICATIONS URBAINES - SEM3D.

Other publications and communications

Articles in scientific journals without peer reviewing

Billen, R. (June 2013). L'avenir des modèles 3D urbains. GeoPlatform, 2 (4), 22-25.

Billen, R. (June 2013). Geen smart city zonder integraal 3D-model. GeoPlatform, 2 (8), 14-16.

Billen, R. (2009). Les relations "spatiales" entre géomatique et géographie. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, (52), 45-47.

Cornélis, B., & Billen, R. (2000). La géométrie de la spatiocarte : corrections et validations, Spatiocartographie. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, (38(1)), 25-43.

Speeches and writings for a general audience

General audience and popularisation articles

Billen, R. (2013). L'heure du bilan. GeoPlatform, (4), p. 15.

Billen, R. (June 2013). Géomètre: les enjeux de l'enseignement. GeoPlatform, 2 (4), p. 17.

Billen, R. (December 2012). La nouvelle cartographie … c’est la jungle. GeoPlatform, 4, p. 31.

Billen, R. (September 2012). Les coulisses d’une action de recherche européenne. GeoPlatform, 3.

Billen, R. (June 2012). Les domaines d'activité du géomètre belge. GeoPlatform, 3 (2), p. 43.

Billen, R. (2012). Parlons du temps ! GeoPlatform, p. 27.

Billen, R. (2011). Archéologie et géomatique. GeoPlatform, (4), p. 13.

Billen, R. (September 2011). Les « Experts – géomatique ». GeoPlatform, 3, p. 11.

Billen, R. (June 2011). Les enjeux des infrastructures de données 3D. GeoPlatform, 2, p. 11.

Billen, R. (2011). Réflexion sur les associations professionnels. GeoPlatform.

Billen, R. (December 2010). Le géomètre et le SIG. GeoPlatform, 4, p. 25.

Billen, R. (June 2010). Des données géographiques à plus hautes résolutions spatiales et temporelles. GeoPlatform, 2, p. 17.

Billen, R. (March 2010). Mieux nous connaître pour mieux nous faire connaître. GeoPlatform, 1 (1), p. 29.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Lebas, A., & Billen, R. (2023). Webinaire - Jumeau Numériques: outils pour la gestion de crise sur les territoires? [Paper presentation]. Webinaire Smart City Institute.

Others

Nys, G.-A., Jeddoub, I., & Billen, R. (2022). "Digital Twins": an "academic" viewpoint [Paper presentation]. Smart Lunches.

Etienne, A.-M., Bouchard, S., Billen, R., Dozo, B.-O., Schyns, M., & Haubruge, E. (2018). UNITÉ DE RECHERCHE LIÈGE – QUÉBEC SUR LE NUMÉRIQUE EN SANTÉ GLOBALE, EN ENSEIGNEMENT ET EN FORMATION CONTINUE UNIVERSITAIRE [Paper presentation]. PROJET DE COOPERATION Wallonie-Bruxelles/Québec, Gatineau, Canada.