An automated vision-based method for rapid 3D energy performance modeling of existing buildings using thermal and digital imagery

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 395-409

  Ham, Youngjib ^a   Golparvar Fard, Mani ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Building retrofit; Energy performance modeling; Structure from Motion; Thermography

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BUILDING RETROFITS; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; GEOMETRICAL CONDITIONS; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT(GPU); RELATIVE TRANSFORMATION; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION;

ALGORITHMS; BUILDINGS; CALIBRATION; CLOUD COMPUTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; RETROFITTING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84879884675     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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