Within the construction sector, Building Information Models (BIMs) are more and more used thanks to the several benefits that they offer in the design of new buildings and the management of the existing ones. Frequently, however, BIMs are not available for already built constructions, but, at the same time, the range camera technology provides nowadays a cheap, intuitive and effective tool for automatically collecting the 3D geometry of indoor environments. It is thus essential to find new strategies, able to perform the first step of the scan to BIM process, by extracting the geometrical information contained in the 3D models that are so easily collected through the range cameras. In this work, a new algorithm to extract planimetries from the 3D models of rooms acquired by means of a range camera is therefore presented. The algorithm was tested on two rooms, characterized by different shapes and dimensions, whose 3D models were captured with the Occipital Structure SensorTM. The preliminary results are promising: the developed algorithm is able to model effectively the 2D shape of the investigated rooms, with an accuracy level comprised in the range of 5 - 10 cm. It can be potentially used by non-expert users in the first step of the BIM generation, when the building geometry is reconstructed, for collecting crowdsourced indoor information in the frame of BIMs Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) generation.

A tool for crowdsourced building information modeling through low-cost range camera: preliminary demonstration and potential / Capocchiano, Francesco; Ravanelli, Roberta; Crespi, Mattia. - In: INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE PHOTOGRAMMETRY, REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCES. - ISSN 2194-9034. - ELETTRONICO. - 42:2/W8(2017), pp. 75-81. (Intervento presentato al convegno Sensors, Algorithms, Applications. 5th International Workshop LowCost 3D, 28-29 november 2017, Hamburg, Germany tenutosi a Hamburg, Germany) [10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W8-75-2017].

A tool for crowdsourced building information modeling through low-cost range camera: preliminary demonstration and potential

CAPOCCHIANO, FRANCESCO
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Ravanelli, Roberta
Secondo
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Crespi, Mattia
Ultimo
2017

Abstract

Within the construction sector, Building Information Models (BIMs) are more and more used thanks to the several benefits that they offer in the design of new buildings and the management of the existing ones. Frequently, however, BIMs are not available for already built constructions, but, at the same time, the range camera technology provides nowadays a cheap, intuitive and effective tool for automatically collecting the 3D geometry of indoor environments. It is thus essential to find new strategies, able to perform the first step of the scan to BIM process, by extracting the geometrical information contained in the 3D models that are so easily collected through the range cameras. In this work, a new algorithm to extract planimetries from the 3D models of rooms acquired by means of a range camera is therefore presented. The algorithm was tested on two rooms, characterized by different shapes and dimensions, whose 3D models were captured with the Occipital Structure SensorTM. The preliminary results are promising: the developed algorithm is able to model effectively the 2D shape of the investigated rooms, with an accuracy level comprised in the range of 5 - 10 cm. It can be potentially used by non-expert users in the first step of the BIM generation, when the building geometry is reconstructed, for collecting crowdsourced indoor information in the frame of BIMs Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) generation.
2017
Sensors, Algorithms, Applications. 5th International Workshop LowCost 3D, 28-29 november 2017, Hamburg, Germany
building information modeling; scan to BIM; range camera; occipital structure sensorTM; algorithm; crowdsourcing
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A tool for crowdsourced building information modeling through low-cost range camera: preliminary demonstration and potential / Capocchiano, Francesco; Ravanelli, Roberta; Crespi, Mattia. - In: INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE PHOTOGRAMMETRY, REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCES. - ISSN 2194-9034. - ELETTRONICO. - 42:2/W8(2017), pp. 75-81. (Intervento presentato al convegno Sensors, Algorithms, Applications. 5th International Workshop LowCost 3D, 28-29 november 2017, Hamburg, Germany tenutosi a Hamburg, Germany) [10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W8-75-2017].
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