3D models of urban sites with geometry and facade textures are needed for many planning and visualization applications. Approximate 3D wireframe model can be derived from aerial images but detailed textures must be obtained from ground level images. Integrating such views with the 3D models is difficult as only small parts of buildings may be visible in a single view. We describe a method that ...

As part of an architectural modeling project, this paper investigates the problem of understanding and manipulating images of buildings. Our primary motivation is to automatically detect and seamlessly remove unwanted foreground elements from urban scenes. Without explicit handling, these objects will appear pasted as artifacts on the model. Recovering the building facade in a video sequence is...

Urban transportation has become a planner's quagmire in a war that seemingly cannot be won. America's highways are jammed at rush hour, causing infuriating delays. Bus service, never fast, has deteriorated over the years, while fares have risen. Pressures to expand rail service to outlying areas remain strong, even though current rail operations cannot attract enough riders to cover more than a...

—This paper reports on the results of an experiment designed to study fine grain physiological responses of participants to an immersive virtual simulation of an urban environment. An experiment was carried out with 40 participants who were asked to walk through a virtual street, which had virtual characters walking through it. The analysis of differences in participant responses at various sta...

In this paper we address the problem of removing unwanted image content in a single orthographic façade image. We exploit the regular structure present in building façades and introduce a diffusion process that is guided by the symmetry prevalent in the image. It removes larger unwanted image objects such as traffic lights, street signs, or cables as well as smaller noise, such as reflections i...

Abstruct This paper presents the framework for creating of 3D map. The 3D shape and the textures of a building are acquired by analyzing moving picture taken from a running vehicle. However, in the real city environment, it is difficult to obtain 3D data of buildings accurately, because the slight motion of images due to the vehicle motion cannot be removed completely. This paper describes a ap...

This project investigates the applicability of Gaussian processes (GPs) as a prediction method for image inpainting, a process which reconstructs lost or deteriorated parts of an image based on the remaining portion. The use of GPs in this context not only allows us to make a single prediction for the missing region but also to draw multiple samples consistent with the context. Also, the covari...

Yaşadığımız kentler; değişen ve dönüşen çağın gereksinimleri, kullanıcı istekleri, ekonomik etkenler, erişilebilir kaynakların artması, malzeme yapım tekniklerinin çoğalması küreselleşme gibi unsurlarla birlikte sürekli yenilenen güncel bir mimari görünüm ortaya koymaktadırlar. Günümüz kentlerinde bu faktörler altında tasarlanan yapılar; üretime, sosyal yaşama dahil olma, fiziki estetik yeterli...

The spatial imaginations of media studies and urban studies are becoming increasingly aligned, illustrated by a growing and diverse literature on what can be identified as a media-urban nexus. This nexus has attracted scholarly interest not only as a social or cultural phenomenon, but also as a site of emergent political dynamics. We reconstruct the shared terrain in which the phenomenology of ...