Façade fires are of growing concern worldwide. Severe facade in different parts the world as well activities many countries regarding testing facades show urgency fire safety challenges façade fires. The need for knowledge and a wide archive work this area has become evident after recent incidents which involved extensive These include tragic Dubai Grenfell Tower 2017 United Kingdom. In cases, ...

In recent years there has been an increasing demand among home owners for cost effective sustainable energy production such as solar energy to provide heating and electricity. A lot of research has focused on the assessment of the incoming solar radiation on roof planes acquired by, e.g., Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). However, solar panels can also be mounted on building facades in order to in...

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...

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 ...