The use of digital image analysis in architectural photogrammetry allows the automation of monotonous low-level tasks and makes the interpretation of facades much easier. Different segmentation methods for a computer assisted mapping of joint contours are discussed. Exemplary the application of the watershed transform is described and a combined watershedmethod will be presented, which is well ...

Scene interpretation systems are often conceived as extensions of low-level image analysis with bottom-up processing for high-level interpretations. In this paper we show how a generic high-level interpretation system can generate hypotheses and start top-down analysis. This allows for spatially focussed and specifically parametrised image analysis steps. Experimental results of the recognition...

Abstract With international awareness of the need to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, Danish government set a target be fossil fuel-free by 2050. To achieve that, existing buildings will retrofitted with energy-saving technologies such as improved thermal insulation. In Denmark, larger mass building stock from around 1850 1940s is preservation worthy. The construction typically solid brick wa...

Different models of social influence have explored the dynamics of social contagion, imitation, and diffusion of different types of traits, opinions, and conducts. However, few behavioral data indicating social influence dynamics have been obtained from direct observation in ‘natural’ social contexts. The present research provides that kind of evidence in the case of the public expression of po...

Abstract This study presents an analysis of two aesthetic properties, complexity and diversity , in Palladian architecture. The former highlights the fractal dimension façade geometry, latter its semantic randomness. Along with a methodological description advice on settings, this contributes to discussion about mathematical beauty