Sunlight and Insolation of Building Interiors

Crowd-sourced reconstruction of building interiors

Location-based services (LBS) have gained huge commercial and scientific interest in recent years, due to the ubiquitous and free availability of maps, global positioning systems, and smartphones. To date, maps and positioning solutions are mostly only available for outdoor use. However, humans spend most of their time indoors, rendering indoor LBS interesting for applications such as location-...

Automatic Generation of 3D Thermal Maps of Building Interiors

Most existing approaches to characterizing thermal properties of buildings and heat emissions from their elements rely on manual inspection and as such are slow, and labor intensive. This is often a daunting task, which requires several days of on-site inspection. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic approach to construct a 3D thermal point cloud of the building interior reflecting the g...

Modelling of Building Interiors with Mobile Phone Sensor Data

Creating as-built plans of building interiors is a challenging task. In this paper we present a semi-automatic modelling system for creating residential building interior plans and their integration with existing map data to produce building models. Taking a set of imprecise measurements made with an interactive mobile phone room mapping application, the system performs spatial adjustments in a...

Towards the Procedural Generation of Urban Building Interiors

Automatic Modeling of Building Interiors Using Low-Cost Sensor Systems

Indoor reconstruction or 3D modeling of indoor scenes aims at representing the 3D shape of building interiors in terms of surfaces and volumes, using photographs, 3D point clouds or hypotheses. Due to advances in the range measurement sensors technology and vision algorithms, and at the same time an increased demand for indoor models by many applications, this topic of research has gained growi...