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 contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we will report on a system that automatically generates a 3D block model from digital aerial images. In this part we will focus on the automatic aerial triangulation and a dense matching process. The second part addresses the augmentation of this 3D block model of a real city with geo-referenced terrestrial data of the facades. The terrestrial...

Building facade detection is an important problem in computer vision, with applications in mobile robotics and semantic scene understanding. In particular, mobile platform localization and guidance in urban environments can be enabled with accurate models of the various building facades in a scene. Toward that end, we present a system for detection, segmentation, and parameter estimation of bui...

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/...

We take advantage of human intuition by encoding facades into a procedural representation. Our user-assisted inverse procedural modeling approach allows users to exploit repetitions and symmetries of facades to create a split grammar representation of the input. Terminal symbols correspond to repeating elements such as windows, window panes, and doors and their distributions are encoded as the ...

Building facades in commercial and residential buildings in Australia, UK and elsewhere are highly vulnerable to terrorist threats involving explosive blast loading. The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, considerable uncertainty remains with respect to system response and explosive loading parameters. In this paper, struc...

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the views of the same location. The quality of the results is often affected by the density of the reference views and the robustness of the image representation...

Vehicle-based image sequence is taken on a moving vehicle, therefore, all scenes passed by will be included, e.g. buildings, crossroad etc.. Images including cross-road are obviously useless for building facade texture. Therefore, those images should be excluded from processing. In this paper, subsection of image sequence is implemented according to range variance automatically detected by the ...

geometry and texture of urban surfaces could aid applications such as urban planning, training, disaster simulation, and virtual-heritage conservation. A standard technique used to create large-scale city models automatically or semi-automatically is to apply stereo vision on aerial or satellite imagery. In recent years, advances in resolution and accuracy have also made airborne laser scanners...