Fabio Remondino is the head of the 3D Optical Metrology (http://3dom.fbk.eu) research unit at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (http://www.fbk.eu), a research center located in Trento, Italy. He holds a PhD in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His main research interests are in the field of reality-based surveying and 3D modeling for heritage documentation, digital preservation, monitoring, replica, animation, inspection. He is interested in the automation aspects of the entire pipeline like automated image orientation, dense image matching, automated registration of range data.