BIM-assisted structure-from-motion for analyzing and visualizing construction progress deviations through daily site images and BIM

Kevin K. Han, Mani Golparvar-Fard

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Abstract

In an effort to document work-in-progress, many construction companies take hundreds of images on their project sites on a daily basis. These images together with 4D BIM can serve as a great resource for analyzing progress deviations. To facilitate image-vs.-BIM comparison, several methods have been introduced that tie in all images together in 3D using standard Structure-from-Motion (SfM) procedures. The resulting point clouds are then superimposed with the 4D BIM, resulting in back-projection of BIM on all images that were successfully registered through the SfM procedure. However, often site images exhibit wide baselines and thus are not successfully registered with BIM. To address current limitations, this paper presents a method together with experimental results that leverages BIM as a priori to initiate the SfM procedure. It is shown that by interactively guiding BIM into one or a few images that have significant overlap with the rest, the proposed BIM-assisted SfM procedure results in more complete point clouds and also generate more accurate BIM overlays on site images.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputing in Civil Engineering 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering
EditorsWilliam J. O'Brien, Simone Ponticelli
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers
Pages596-603
Number of pages8
EditionJanuary
ISBN (Electronic)9780784479247
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event2015 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, IWCCE 2015 - Austin, United States
Duration: Jun 21 2015Jun 23 2015

Publication series

NameCongress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings
NumberJanuary
Volume2015-January

Other

Other2015 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, IWCCE 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period6/21/156/23/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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