Automation of facade images interpretation is a crucial task for efficient 3D modeling of urban areas. Information about regularities in facade images can be used for image completion of texture areas occluded with foreground objects, 3D model compression and texture quality enhancement. Existing approaches cannot handle the whole variety of buildings facades and often fail in cases of occluded...

Since being introduced in 1963, silicone resin emulsion paint (SREP) has developed into one of the most modern facade coating systems. While specific formulations and raw materials have changed in the last 42 years, the long-lasting performance properties resulting from the unique combination of water repellency, vapour permeability, low VOC and the silicon-resin based structure have remained c...

aspect ServerSide { abstract pointcut facadeMainExecution(); abstract Remote initFacadeInstance(); abstract String getSystemName(); abstract String getServerName(); Those abstract methods and pointcut are implemented by system specific aspects. The abstract aspect also defines and around advice that uses the abstract methods to export the facade instance and make it remotely available. Copyrigh...

This paper presents the results from a combined experimental and simulation analysis of a prototype photovoltaic facade when subjected to conditions typical of UK climate seasons. The departure of the electrical efficiency from peak published values is measured and the efficiency improvement associated with facade operation in combined power and heat recovery mode is estimated.

Urban facades contain large-scale repetitions in the form of windows, doors, etc. Such elements often are in different configurations (e.g., open or closed) obscuring their regular arrangements to any direct low-level pixel matching based repetition detection. We propose a variation-factored representation for facade images by progressively favoring larger repeated structures while allowing rel...

This paper presents an operational approach for extracting wire-frame models of street facades. Georeferenced terrestrial laser rawdata are acquired by a Mobile Mapping System (MMS). The MMS constitutes an adapted tool to massively collect accurate data at street level. After a filtering step of the 3D raw point cloud of street, the street point cloud is segmented into a cloud of dominant facad...

Housing is viewed as a collection of characteristics that are used to satisfy goals, such as comfort and visual quality. Identifying the most important functions of facade results in improving quality. In this regard, the facade plays a crucial role in creating the borders of inner space in contact with its surroundings and can be considered as an interface. This study aimed to investigate and ...

The paper describes an approach for the quality dependent reconstruction of building facades using 3D point clouds from mobile terrestrial laser scanning and coarse building models. Due to changing viewing conditions such measurements frequently suffer from different point densities at the respective building facades. In order to support the automatic generation of facade structure in regions w...

Frequently, algorithms for 3D facade reconstruction extract high resolution building geometry like windows, doors and protrusions from terrestrial LiDAR and image data. However, such a bottom-up modelling of facade structures is only feasible if the observed data meets considerable requirements on the amount of detail and coverage. For this reason, within our work, the explicit reconstruction o...

Obtaining three-dimensional models of urban scenes from sensor data is a challenging topic. The construction of 3D city models requires fusion of data coming from different sensors, such as laser scanners and cameras. At a first phase, we will process building facades, which will be considered as textured 3D planes. The acquisition system is equipped with two laser scanners and many (twelve) ca...