We present a novel procedural framework for interactively modeling building façades. Common procedural approaches, such as shape grammars, assume that building façades are organized in a tree structure, while in practice this is often not the case. Consequently, the complexity of their layout description becomes unmanageable for interactive editing. In contrast, we obtain a façade by composing ...

This paper proposes a method for the reconstruction of city buildings with automatically derived textures that can be directly used for façade element classification. Oblique and nadir aerial imagery recorded by a multi-head camera system is transformed into dense 3D point clouds and evaluated statistically in order to extract the hull of the structures. For the resulting wall, roof and ground ...

High-end storage systems, such as those in large data centers, must service multiple independent workloads. Workloads often require predictable quality of service, despite the fact that they have to compete with other rapidly-changing workloads for access to common storage resources. We present a novel approach to providing performance guarantees in this highly-volatile scenario, in an efficien...

The topic of interactive narrative has been under research for many years. While there has been much research exploring the development of new algorithms that enable and enhance interactive narratives, there has been little research focusing on the question of how players understand and internalize their interactive narrative experiences. This paper addresses this problem through conducting a p...

Energy efficiency in office buildings has been the center of attention for many researches. This special attention is due to highly energy consumption in this building type. Refinement of facade and building’s envelop is a good approach to reduce buildings energy requirements. Double skin facade concepts are commonly used to achieve that object. Although the concept is not new, there is a growi...

Component-based software engineering promotes a style of application construction based on composing pre-built and pre-validated components. Different component models have been proposed and standardized for creating such composable components. Each component model is independent of the others, however, and does not support composition with the other models. We present the Vienna Component Fram...

Urban models extracted from airborne data have to be refined for tasks like the generation of realistic visualisations from pedestrian viewpoints. Within the paper, terrestrial LIDAR data as well as façade imagery is used to increase the quality and amount of detail for the respective 3D building models. These models as they are available from airborne data collection provide a priori informati...

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. We are completing a three year collaboration to engineer a novel architecture that integrates emotional, interactive character behavior, drama-managed plot and shallow natural...

Within the paper, the combined application of terrestrial image and LIDAR data for façade reconstruction is discussed. Existing 3D building models as they are available from airborne data collection are additionally integrated into the process. These given models provide a priori information, which efficiently supports both the georeferencing of the terrestrial data and the subsequent geometric...