UrbanPlanAR: BIM Mobile Visualisation in Urban Environments With Occlusion-Aware Augmented Reality

Ludovico Carozza, Enrique Valero, Frédéric Bosché, George Banfill, Rufus Mall, Minh Nguyen

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Abstract

Effective visualisation is critical to a wide range of activities conducted in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. This paper presents an occlusion-aware Augmented Reality (AR) solution that is geared towards the visualisation of new developments Ð in the form of 3D BIM models Ð in urban environments, to enhance communication around proposed developments. The solution automatically fetches BIM models from project repositories and enables a user to visualise them within their urban environment with a mobile tablet. The localisation of the tablet is achieved using a visual-inertial approach that uses only the sensors embedded in the tablet. Furthermore, the solution uniquely includes a process for handling occlusions from the real world on the augmented content. Results are presented that demonstrate the full pipeline, including some visualisation results obtained in real urban environments.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLean and Computing in Construction Congress (LC3)
Subtitle of host publication Volume I – Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Computing in Construction (JC3)
EditorsFrédéric Bosché, Ioannis Brilakis, Rafael Sacks
PublisherHeriot-Watt University
Pages229-236
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9780956595164
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event2017 Lean & Computing in Construction Congress - Heraklion, Greece
Duration: 4 Jul 201712 Jul 2017
Conference number: 1
http://www.lc3-2017.com/

Conference

Conference2017 Lean & Computing in Construction Congress
Abbreviated titleLC3
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityHeraklion
Period4/07/1712/07/17
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