The use of point clouds in data acquisition for building information modeling has become common practice in recent years. Managers and owners of older buildings strive to centralize information about their assets. Current documentation regarding mechanical installations, pipelines, electrical equipment, and past interventions is often stored on dislocated media or on paper in many cases. Point cloud represents the starting point in the process of transforming the material world into digital, which includes raw data about the material world, that is obtained in several different ways, such as photogrammetry, terrestrial laser scanning and air lidar. Manual BIM modeling for management, maintenance and further use is a time-consuming, error-prone process, that we strive to automate.
Recently, more stand-alone programs and add-ons for existing programs are emerging, allowing for fast, automated, and more accurate modeling based on raw point cloud data. The principles of these programs and add-ons are based on computer vision models that simplify the work and reduce the role of the user in the entire process.
In the master's thesis, we explored the possibilities of automating the creation process of BIM models from raw point clouds. In the first part of the thesis, we compared point cloud exchange formats, in which the same spatial data can be written in different ways. We compared different software that allows working with point clouds and modeling. We explored the current computer vision algorithms that serve as basis for these software solutions. In the second part, we presented the process of modeling individual BIM elements on point cloud examples.
During the modeling process, we graphically presented the results for individual elements (walls, pipes and columns) and proved the high level of accuracy for presented process. Despite the high level of automation during the proess, user interaction is still required to achieve good results. The need for user interactions is lowering with the advancements of the deep learning algorithms in recent years.
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