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Sonny Astani Department Seminar

Speaker: Meida Chan, Civil Engineering PhD student, USC

Talk Title: Development of a data acquisition-planning framework for hybrid data collection techniques to achieve blind-spots free 3D point cloud

Abstract: As-is 3D building models are valuable in many ways such as urban planning, historical building information storage, building renovation, facility management, building energy simulation and so on. Data acquisition for complete and accurate as-is 3D building reconstruction is a time consuming and labor intensive process. Establishing a data acquisition plan before or during the data acquisition process is necessary. As such, there has been extensive research on developing/advancing data acquisition planning algorithms with a single data acquisition technique. However, for buildings that have complex building structure and architectural elements, data collection process with a single data acquisition technique is not sufficient neither effective. The hypothesis behind this research study is that image-based technique (photogrammetry) and range-based technique (laser scanning) are complementary to each other and that the combination of the two techniques can improve the quality of the derived as-is 3D point cloud in terms of completeness and accuracy. As such, this research study will develop a framework that will provide an improved data acquisition process to support the creation of complete and accurate 3D models of existing buildings, while reducing the total cost of data acquisition by eliminating the need for site revisits and reworking of the data collection process.

Host: Lucio Soibelman

Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 101

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Kaela Berry