This paper presents a method for building roof contour extraction from digital images taken over complex urban scenes. The proposed method is based on a snakes-based energy function that represents building roof contours in digital images, which is optimized by using the dynamic programming (DP) algorithm. As most of the building roof contours are characterized by rectilinear sides intercepting...

This paper presents a method for extracting building roof contours from digital images collected over urban landscapes. The proposed method utilizes an energy function based on snakes that represents building roof contours in digital images and is optimized with a dynamic programming (DP) algorithm. Because most building roof contours are characterized by rectilinear sides that intercept at rig...

Green roof and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are two technologies that could contribute to sustainable building development and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. When they are combined together on the building roof, it can enhance their functions and effectiveness by cooling and shading effects. This paper explains the major findings of a research to study the benefits of integrating gre...

In this paper, we present an approach that allows automatic (parametric) reconstruction of building shapes in 2-D/3-D using TomoSAR point clouds. These point clouds are generated by processing radar image stacks via advanced interferometric technique, called SAR tomography. The proposed approach reconstructs the building outline by exploiting both the available roof and façade information. Roof...

Increasingly strict energy policies, rising energy prices, and a desire for a positive corporate image currently serve as incentives for multinational corporations to reduce their plants’ energy consumption. This paper quantitatively investigates and discusses the value of a traditional north-light roof using a complete building energy simulation and optimization framework. The findings indicat...

This paper presents a new approach for roof facet segmentation based on ridge detection and hierarchical decomposition along ridges. The proposed approach exploits the fact that every roof can be composed of a set of gabled roofs and single facets which are separated by the gabled roofs. In this work, firstly, building footprints stored in OpenStreetMap are used to extract 3D points on roofs. T...

California has a new hit: the state's new Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco has been drawing increasing plaudits from both professionals and the public alike. With the strictest of environmental demands, architect Renzo Piano has created a building " that is visually and functionally linked to its natural surroundings, metaphorically lifting up a piece of the park and putting a buil...

The outside convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) of building roof is an important parameter for accurately calculating heat transfer through roof and simulating airflow around buildings. However, the correlations concerning CHTC in various studies seem to be discrepant. The experiment using naphthalene method to measuring CHTC was carried out on a nine-story building roof during 15 Augus...

In this paper, we proposed an automatic procedure to reconstruct building outline using building data and stereo aerial images. Our methods focused on the outline of building, excluding the inner structure of roof surface. This procedure includes five steps, 1) to produce the edge gradient images by Canny Detector, 2) to defined the valid workspace in object space and image space by building da...

Development of wireless sensor network equipped with GPS for post-seismic building-wise damage identification is presented in this paper. This system is called GPS on Every Roof. Sensor node equipped with GPS antenna and receiver is installed on the top of the roof of each and every building. The position of this sensor node is measured before and after earthquake. The final goal of this system...