We describe the prototype of a system intended to allow a user to navigate in an urban environment using a mobile telephone equipped with a camera. The system uses a database of views of building facades to determine the pose of a query view provided by the user. Our method is based on a novel wide-baseline matching algorithm that can identify corresponding building facades in two views despite...

Citation: Desthieux G, Carneiro C, Camponovo R, Ineichen P, Morello E, Boulmier A, Abdennadher N, Dervey S and Ellert C (2018) Solar Energy Potential Assessment on Rooftops and Facades in Large Built Environments Based on LiDAR Data, Image Processing, and Cloud Computing. Methodological Background, Application, and Validation in Geneva (Solar Cadaster). Front. Built Environ. 4:14. doi: 10.3389/...

In this paper, we describe a novel technique to identify and extract windows from a building’s frontal facade. Feature detection in buildings has long been an area of research interest for its applications in 3D city modeling and scene visualization. We utilize a combination of projection profiles, mutual information, and a feature extraction technique (Snake Algorithm). We have found this appr...

Buildings are considered as significant part in the cities, which plays main role in organization and arrangement of city appearance, which is affects image of that building facades, as an connective between inner and outer space, have a main role in city image and they are classified as rich image and poor image by people evaluation which related to visual architectural and urban elements in b...

The rapidly growing world energy use has already raised concerns over energy resources and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since the global contribution from residential buildings towards energy consumption, has steadily increased between 20% and 40% and as large openings have considerable energy and heat loss in dwellings, this paper establishes a coefficient of heat loss and air infiltration ...