The building façade model is the most prominent streetscape feature for rendering virtual street models. This paper aims to develop a method to identify street obstacles which hinder photo-realistic texturing of building façade. In order to achieve this, the presented method focuses on two research components. Firstly, we develop an effective grid-based line analysis method to differentiate ima...

In recent years, the demand for highly detailed building models has clearly risen. Most of the details, which characterize a building, come from its façade. It is obvious that such façade detail is ideally acquired from ground-based sensors. For any street-level data acquisition system, a common problem arises: that of occlusions and hence incomplete data. In the past we have shown how multiima...

Working on building façade is dangerous. Many accidents have occurred, and many workers have lost their lives. We have researched to apply robot systems to prevent these accidents. In this paper, we purposed an algorithm for sensor system of a gondola-typed building façade maintenance robot. The robot system moves on the building façade autonomously, or by remote control. Therefore, window area...

Nowadays, Double Skin Façades (DSFs) are popular technologies adopted for both new and existing buildings. Since their introduction, configurations materials started to be tested improve the DSF energy behaviour function. Such complex technologies, able comfort conditions of occupied spaces decrease building requirement, strictly related design phase that should carefully evaluated. The correct...

The binary split grammar is powerful to parse façade in a broad range of types, whose structure is characterized by repetitive patterns with different layouts. We notice that, as far as two labels are concerned, BSG parsing is equivalent to approximating a façade by a matrix with multiple rankone patterns. Then, we propose an efficient algorithm to decompose an arbitrary matrix into a rank-one ...

This paper presents an approach to address the problem of image façade labelling. In the architectural literature, domain knowledge is usually expressed geometrically in the final design, so façade labelling should on the one hand conform to visual evidence, and on the other hand to the architectural principles – how individual assets (e.g. doors, windows) interact with each other to form a faç...

Background: The debate on the question whether biomimetics has a specific potential to contribute to sustainability is discussed among scientists, business leaders, politicians and those responsible for project funding. The objective of this paper is to contribute to this controversial debate by presenting the sustainability assessment of one of the most well-known and most successful biomimeti...

Modeling and reconstruction of urban environments is currently the subject of intensive research. There is a wide range of possible applications, including virtual environments like cyber-tourism, computer games, and the entertainment industries in general, as well as urban planning and architecture, security planning and training, traffic simulation, driving guidance and telecommunications, to...

The abundance of super-micron biological and abiotic particles in occupied indoor environments can be influenced by time-dependent changes human-associated emissions building ventilation conditions. Real-time measurements fluorescent aerosol (FAPs) were integrated with a sensing platform to evaluate the influence human occupancy on temporal dynamics living laboratory office. Concentrations size...

Previous studies indicate that residents may benefit from a "quiet side" to their dwellings. The influence of the level of road traffic noise exposure at the least exposed side on road traffic noise annoyance was studied in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Road traffic noise exposure was assessed at the most and least exposed façade (Lden,most and Lden,least respectively) of dwellings for subjects i...