Exploiting Semantic Scene Reconstruction for Estimating Building Envelope Characteristics

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Hauptverfasser: Xu, Chenghao, Mielle, Malcolm, Laborde, Antoine, Waseem, Ali, Forest, Florent, Fink, Olga
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author Xu, Chenghao
Mielle, Malcolm
Laborde, Antoine
Waseem, Ali
Forest, Florent
Fink, Olga
author_facet Xu, Chenghao
Mielle, Malcolm
Laborde, Antoine
Waseem, Ali
Forest, Florent
Fink, Olga
contents Achieving the EU's climate neutrality goal requires retrofitting existing buildings to reduce energy use and emissions. A critical step in this process is the precise assessment of geometric building envelope characteristics to inform retrofitting decisions. Previous methods for estimating building characteristics, such as window-to-wall ratio, building footprint area, and the location of architectural elements, have primarily relied on applying deep-learning-based detection or segmentation techniques on 2D images. However, these approaches tend to focus on planar facade properties, limiting their accuracy and comprehensiveness when analyzing complete building envelopes in 3D. While neural scene representations have shown exceptional performance in indoor scene reconstruction, they remain under-explored for external building envelope analysis. This work addresses this gap by leveraging cutting-edge neural surface reconstruction techniques based on signed distance function (SDF) representations for 3D building analysis. We propose BuildNet3D, a novel framework to estimate geometric building characteristics from 2D image inputs. By integrating SDF-based representation with semantic modality, BuildNet3D recovers fine-grained 3D geometry and semantics of building envelopes, which are then used to automatically extract building characteristics. Our framework is evaluated on a range of complex building structures, demonstrating high accuracy and generalizability in estimating window-to-wall ratio and building footprint. The results underscore the effectiveness of BuildNet3D for practical applications in building analysis and retrofitting.
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spellingShingle Exploiting Semantic Scene Reconstruction for Estimating Building Envelope Characteristics
Xu, Chenghao
Mielle, Malcolm
Laborde, Antoine
Waseem, Ali
Forest, Florent
Fink, Olga
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Achieving the EU's climate neutrality goal requires retrofitting existing buildings to reduce energy use and emissions. A critical step in this process is the precise assessment of geometric building envelope characteristics to inform retrofitting decisions. Previous methods for estimating building characteristics, such as window-to-wall ratio, building footprint area, and the location of architectural elements, have primarily relied on applying deep-learning-based detection or segmentation techniques on 2D images. However, these approaches tend to focus on planar facade properties, limiting their accuracy and comprehensiveness when analyzing complete building envelopes in 3D. While neural scene representations have shown exceptional performance in indoor scene reconstruction, they remain under-explored for external building envelope analysis. This work addresses this gap by leveraging cutting-edge neural surface reconstruction techniques based on signed distance function (SDF) representations for 3D building analysis. We propose BuildNet3D, a novel framework to estimate geometric building characteristics from 2D image inputs. By integrating SDF-based representation with semantic modality, BuildNet3D recovers fine-grained 3D geometry and semantics of building envelopes, which are then used to automatically extract building characteristics. Our framework is evaluated on a range of complex building structures, demonstrating high accuracy and generalizability in estimating window-to-wall ratio and building footprint. The results underscore the effectiveness of BuildNet3D for practical applications in building analysis and retrofitting.
title Exploiting Semantic Scene Reconstruction for Estimating Building Envelope Characteristics
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22383